Fastitocalon (poem)
Poem by J. R. R. Tolkien / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Fastitocalon" is a medieval-style poem by J. R. R. Tolkien about a gigantic sea turtle. The setting is explicitly Middle-earth. The poem is included in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
The work takes its name from a medieval poem of a similar name, itself based on the second-century Latin Physiologus.