Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Farmer Giles of Ham (1949) is a short story written by J. R. R. Tolkien. The story describes a series of encounters between Farmer Giles and a wily dragon named Chrysophylax. It is set in a mythical Britain of long ago. The book was originally illustrated by Pauline Baynes. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.