Smakkabagms is an unpublished poem that is rumored to have been written by J.R.R. Tolkien around 1924.[1] While it is untold whether or not any of its manuscripts survive anywhere today, it may have been among the poems that were rejected for inclusion in collection of poems, Songs for the Philologists, in 1936.[2]
Etymology[]
Smakkabagms is a Gothic word meaning "fig tree".[2]
References[]
- ↑ The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, Chronology (entry "c. 1924")
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, Volume Two, no. 76: "From One to Five (c. 1924)", pg. 562