In the books[]
The Hobbit[]
- Chip the glasses and crack the plates!
- Dwarf-song - First line: Far over the misty mountains cold
- O! What are you doing,
- Clap! Snap! the black crack!
- Fifteen birds in five fir-trees,
- Old fat spider spinning in a tree!
- old songs of mirth - First line: The King beneath the mountains
- Roll-roll-roll-roll,
- Elvish Song in Rivendell
- The Road goes ever on and on,
The Fellowship of the Ring[]
- Ring-verse - First line: Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky
- A Walking-song - First line: Upon the hearth the fire is red
- A Elbereth Gilthoniel - First line: Snow-white! Snow-white! O Lady clear!
- A drinking song - First line: Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go
- A bath-song - First line: Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
- Farewell we call to hearth and hall!
- O! Wanderers in the shadowed land
- Tom Bombadil's songs - First line: Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo
- As in The Lord of the Rings songs index, all of Tom Bombadil's songs are treated as a continuation of the first one.
- O slender as a willow-wand! O clearer than clear water!
- 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
- Lay of Lúthien excerpt - First line: The leaves were long, the grass was green
- The Stone Troll - First line: Troll sat alone on his seat of stone
- The Short Lay of Eärendel: Eärendillinwë - First line: Eärendil was a mariner
- Seek for the Sword that was broken
- When winter first begins to bite
- I sit beside the fire and think
- In Moria, in Khazad-dûm! - First line: The world was young, the mountains green
- Lay of Nimrodel - First line: An Elven-maid there was of old
- Song of Frodo and Sam - First line: When evening in the Shire was grey
- Galadriel's Song - First line: I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew
- Namárië
The Two Towers[]
- Song of Boromir - First line: Aragorn began to sing: "Through Rohan over fen and field, where the long grass grows..."
- Gondor! Gondor, between the Mountains and the Sea!
- Long List - First line: Learn now the lore of Living Creatures!
- song of the Ent and Entwife - First line: When spring unfolds the beechen leaf, and sap is in the bough
- Bregalad's song - First line: O Orofarnë, Lassemista, Carnimírië!
- Ra-hoom-rah! - First line: We come, we come with roll of drum:
- Galadriel's messages - First line: Where now are the Dúnedain, Elessar, Elessar?
- 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
- Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden!
- Ere iron was found or tree was hewn
- Rhyme of Lore - Tall ships and tall kings
- Oliphaunt - First line: Grey as a mouse
The Return of the King[]
- Over the land there lies a long shadow,
- From dark Dunharrow in the dim morning
- Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden!
- Faithful servant yet master's bane
- Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day’s rising - First line: Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising...
- song of the Mounds of Mundburg - First line: We heard of the horns in the hills ringing...
- Athelas - First line: When the black breath blows...
- Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui
- In western lands beneath the Sun
- Long live the Halflings! Praise them with great praise!
- To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying,
In the films[]
The Fellowship of the Ring[]
- The Road goes ever on and 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
- Lay of Lúthien excerpt - The song Aragorn II sings in the Midgewater Marshes may be an elvish version of this song
- Song of Frodo and Sam - 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
- Song of the Ent and Entwife - First line: Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold
- Cold be hand and heart and bone, - 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
- 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
- Into the West - First line: Lay down