List of poems by J. R. R. Tolkien

This is a list of poems written by J. R. R. Tolkien (years are the date of composition, if not stated otherwise)


 * The Battle of the Eastern Field 1911
 * From the many-willow'd margin of the immemorial Thames 1913
 * The Voyage of Eärendel the Evening Star (The Book of Lost Tales 2 267–269) 1914
 * The Bidding of the Minstrel 1914 (The Book of Lost Tales 2 261f.,269f. )
 * Tinfang Warble 1914 (The Book of Lost Tales 1 107f.)
 * Goblin Feet 1915
 * You and Me / and the Cottage of Lost Play 1915 (The Book of Lost Tales 1 27f.)
 * Kôr 1915, published as The City of the Gods in 1923 (The Book of Lost Tales 1 136)
 * Kortirion among the Trees 1915 (revised in 1937 and in the 1960s, The Trees of Kortirion)
 * Over Old Hills and Far Away 1915
 * A Song of Aryador 1915
 * The Shores of Elfland 1915
 * Habbanan beneath the Stars 1916
 * The Sorrowful City 1916
 * The Song of Eriol 1917 (The Book of Lost Tales 2 298ff.)
 * The Horns of Ulmo 1917
 * The Happy Mariners, published in 1920, composed in 1915
 * The Children of Húrin (begun in 1920 or earlier, continued to 1925) (The Lays of Beleriand)
 * The Clerke's Compleinte 1922
 * Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden 1923
 * The Eadigan Saelidan 1923
 * Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon 1923
 * Enigmala Saxonic - a Nuper Inventa Duo 1923
 * The Cat and the Fiddle: A Nursery-Rhyme Undone and its Scandalous Secret Unlocked 1923
 * An Evening in Tavrobel 1924
 * The Lonely Isle 1924
 * The Princess Ni 1924
 * Light as Leaf on Lindentree 1925
 * The Flight of the Noldoli from Valinor 1925 (The Lays of Beleriand)
 * The Lay of Leithian 1925–1931 (The Lays of Beleriand)
 * The Lay of Eärendel 1920s (The Lays of Beleriand)
 * The Nameless Land 1926
 * Adventures in Unnatural History and Medieval Metres, being the Freaks of Fisiologus 1927:
 * Fastitocalon
 * Iumbo


 * Tinfang Warble, published in 1927, composed in 1914
 * Progress in Bimble Town 1931
 * Errantry 1933
 * Firiel 1934
 * Looney 1934
 * Songs for the Philologists, with E.V. Gordon et al., published 1936:
 * Bagme Bloma
 * Éadig Béo þu!
 * Frenchmen Froth
 * From One to Five
 * I Sat upon a Bench
 * Ides Ælfscýne
 * La Húru
 * Lit and Lang
 * Natura Apis: Morali Ricardi Eremite
 * Ofer Wídne Gársecg
 * The Root of the Boot
 * Ruddoc Hana
 * Syx Mynet


 * The Dragon's Visit 1937
 * Knocking at the Door: Lines induced by sensations when waiting for an answer at the door of an Exalted Academic Person 1937
 * The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, published in Welsh Review, December 1945
 * Imram (The Death of St. Brendan) 1946 (published in Time and Tide, December 1955, Sauron Defeated 261ff,296ff)
 * Elvish translations of catholic prayers (ed. Wynne, Smith, Hostetter in Vinyar Tengwar 43, 44, 2002), composed in the 1950s:
 * Ataremma versions (Quenya Pater Noster) versions I-VI
 * Aia María (Quenya Ave Maria) versions I-IV
 * Litany of Loreto in Quenya
 * Ortírielyanna (Quenya Sub Tuum Praesidium)
 * Alcar i Ataren (Quenya Gloria Patri)
 * Alcar mi tarmenel na Erun (Quenya Gloria in Excelsis Deo)
 * Ae Adar Nín (Sindarin Pater Noster)


 * The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son 1953
 * The Adventures of Tom Bombadil published in 1962:
 * The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
 * Bombadil Goes Boating
 * Errantry
 * Little Princess Mee
 * The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late
 * The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon
 * The Stone Troll
 * Perry-the-Winkle
 * The Mewlips
 * Oliphaunt
 * Fastitocalon
 * The Cat
 * Shadow-Bride
 * The Hoard
 * The Sea-Bell
 * The Last Ship


 * Once upon a time 1965
 * Bilbo's Last Song 1966 (first published as a poster in 1974)
 * For W. H. A. in 1967 in Shenandoah
 * Narqelion published in 1988 in Mythlore
 * Mythopoeia published in certain editions of Tree and Leaf, republished in 1999 in an edition of Tree and Leaf in England only.