Songs and Verses

Songs and Verses

The Hobbit

 * Down the Swift Dark Stream You Go
 * The Song Of The Lonely Mountain - First Line: Far over the misty mountains cold
 * Elves Lullaby - First Line: Sing now ye joyful, now sing all together

The Fellowship of the Ring

 * The Road Goes Ever On - a.k.a. The Old Walking song
 * Verse of the Rings - First Line: Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky
 * A Walking Song - First Line: Upon the hearth the fire is red
 * Elven Hymn to Elbereth - First Line: Snow-white! Snow-white! O Lady clear!
 * A Drinking Song - First Line: Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go
 * The Bath Song - First Line: Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
 * Farewell Song of Merry and Pippin - First Line: Farewell we call to hearth and hall!
 * Song in the Woods - First Line: O! Wanderers in the shadowed land
 * Tom Bombadil's Songs - First Line: Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo
 * note- as in The Lord of the Rings songs index, all Tom Bombadil's songs are treated as a continuation of the first one


 * Wight's Chant - First Line: Cold be hand and heart and bone
 * The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late - First Line: There is an inn, a merry old inn
 * All that is Gold Does Not Glitter
 * The Fall of Gil-galad - First Line: Gil-galad was an Elven-king
 * Song of Beren and Lúthien - First Line: The leaves were long, the grass was green
 * Sam's Rhyme of the Troll - First Line: Troll sat alone on his seat of stone
 * Song of Eärendil - First Line: Eärendil was a mariner
 * Warning of Winter - First Line: When winter first begins to bite
 * Seek for the Sword that was broken
 * Song of Nimrodel - First Line: An Elven-maid there was of old
 * Frodo's Lament for Gandalf - First Line: When evening in the Shire was grey
 * Song of Durin - First Line: The world was young, the mountains green

The Two Towers

 * The Long List of the Ents - First Line: Learn now the lore of Living Creatures!
 * The Ent and the Entwife - First Line: When spring unfolds the beechen leaf, and sap is in the bough
 * Bregalad's Song - First Line: O Orofarnë, Lassemista, Carnimírië!
 * The Ents' Marching Song - First Line: We come, we come with roll of drum:
 * Lament for the Rohirrim - First Line: Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
 * Gandalf's Song of Lórien - First Line: In Dwimordene, in Lórien
 * Call-to-Arms of the Rohirrim - First Line: Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden!
 * Galadriel's Messages - First Line: Where now are the Dúnedain, Elessar, Elessar?
 * A Rhyme of Lore - Tall ships and tall kings
 * Oliphaunt - First Line: Grey as a mouse

The Return of the King

 * Malbeth the Seer's Words - First Line: Over the land there lies a long shadow...
 * Athelas - First Line: When the black breath blows...

The Fellowship of the Ring

 * The Road Goes Ever On
 * A Drinking Song - First Line: To heal my heart and drown my woe
 * The Bath Song - First Line: Sweet is the sound of the falling rain
 * Song of Beren and Lúthien - The song Aragorn sings in the Midgewater Marshes may be an elvish version of this song
 * Sam's Lament for Gandalf - First Line: The finest rockets ever seen:

The Two Towers

 * Bregalad's Song - First Line: O rowan mine, I saw you shine upon a summer's day
 * The Ent and the Entwife - First Line: Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold
 * Wight's Chant - First Line: Cold be hand and heart and bone
 * Gollum's Song

The Return of the King

 * The Green Dragon (song) - First Line: Oh, you can search far and wide
 * All that is Gold Does Not Glitter - First Line: From the ashes a fire shall be woken
 * A Walking Song - a.k.a. "The Edge of Night" - First Line: Home is behind, the world ahead
 * A Shadow Lies Between Us - First Line: With a sigh
 * Into the West - First Line: Lay down

From the Radio Adaption

 * Bilbo's Last Song