This is the sort of thing I only recommend reading if you are already into the author’s oeuvre, because otherwise these are two short stories about completely average English village life and fairy tales. 

Smith is printed first but was composed later, towards the end of his life; Farmer Giles is pre-WWII and shows it. Smith is very much interested in the same sorts of issues as Leaf by Niggle, or at least in the same genre of it, whereas Farmer Giles is a just-so story, more or less, and working out some thoughts about dragons that are pretty easily linked to Smaug.

Apparently Farmer Giles is in The Tolkien Reader, which I’ve also read and reviewed but cannot be arsed to find the review now. Not super positive that I didn’t remember it, but I enjoyed it on re-read. Smith has a lot of interesting thoughts that I’ll be unpacking for a bit.