Which Tolkien story features the character Smith of Wootton Major?

Smith of Wootton Major features the character named Smith of Wootton Major.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Smith of Wootton Major is a short story first published in 1967. Its central character is a village blacksmith’s son who receives a magical star hidden in a cake. The star allows him to travel into Faërie, the perilous and beautiful otherworld at the heart of the tale.

The story grew from Tolkien’s interest in fairy stories, tradition, craft, and the relationship between ordinary life and the marvellous. Smith is not a Hobbit or a figure from the history of Middle-earth; he belongs to a separate work with its own setting and mythology.

Readers sometimes group the story with Tolkien’s other shorter works, including Leaf by Niggle and Farmer Giles of Ham. Those works also explore imagination and moral choices, but neither contains Smith’s journey through Faërie. The tale is especially notable as one of Tolkien’s later completed works of imaginative fiction.