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The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien

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The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien is a book edited by scholars Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond in the style of Christopher Tolkien's The History of Middle-earth series, compiling most of J.R.R. Tolkien's poems.

It will offer annotated notes to "at least 240 discrete poems" that Tolkien wrote, to be "presented in 195 entries and five appendices", though this number depends "on how one distinguishes titles and versions" of existing poems. In addition to 77 previously unpublished poems, the collection will contain a small selection of poems from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and some extracts from Tolkiens book-length poems such as The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún and The Fall of Arthur. The book will be published in three volumes by HarperCollins in the UK on September 12, 2024 and September 17, 2024 in the USA. The book also mentions unpublished poems not in this collection such as Monoceros, the Unicorn, Reginhardus, the Fox, and Smakkabagms.

Contents[]

Cover[1]
Title Page
Introduction
Chronology

VOLUME ONE[]

  1. Morning · Morning Song
  2. The Dale-Lands
  3. Evening · Completorium
  4. Wood-Sunshine
  5. The Sirens Feast · The Sirens
  6. The Battle of the Eastern Field
  7. A Fragment of an Epic
  8. The New Lemminkainen
  9. Lemminkainen Goeth to the Ford of Oxen
  10. From Iffley · Valedictory
  11. Darkness on the Road
  12. Sunset in a Town
  13. The Grimness of the Sea · The Tides ·
    Sea Chant of an Elder Day ·
    Sea-Song of an Elder Day · The Horns of YImir
  14. Outside
  15. Magna Dei Gloria
  16. The Voyage of Éarendel the Evening Star ·
    The Last Voyage of Éarendel ·
    Éala! Éarendel Engla Beorhtast!
  17. The Story of Kullervo
  18. The Minstrel Renounces the Song ·
    The Lay of Earendel · The Bidding of the Minstrel
  19. The Mermaid's Flute
  20. Dark · Copernicus v. Ptolemy · Copernicus and Ptolemy
  21. Ferrum et Sanguis
  22. The Sparrow's Morning Chirp to a Lazy Mortal ·
    Bilink, Bilink! · Sparrow Song
  23. As Two Fair Trees
  24. Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon:
    An East Anglian Phantasy ·
    A Faërie: Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon
    · The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon
  25. Courage Speaks to a Child of Earth ·
    The Two Riders
  26. May Day in a Backward Year · May-Day
  27. Goblin Feet
  28. You and Me and the Cottage of Lost Play ·
    The Little House of Lost Play: Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva
  29. Tinfang Warble
  30. Kôr: In a City Lost and Dead ·
    The City of the Gods
  31. The Shores of Faery
  32. Princess Nî · The Princess Ní ·
    Princess Mee
  1. The Happy Mariners · Tha Eadigan Saelidan: The Happy Mariners
  2. The Trumpet of Faery · The Trumpets of Faery ·
    The Horns of the Host of Doriath
  3. Thoughts on Parade · The Swallow and the Traveller on the Plains
  4. Empty Chapel
  5. The Pines of Aryador · A Song of Aryador
  6. Dark Are the Clouds about the North
  7. The Lonely Harebell · Elfalone
  8. Kortirion among the Trees ·
    The Trees of Kortirion
  9. Narqelion
  10. The Pool of the Dead Year ·
    The Pool of Forgetfulness
  11. Over Old Hills and Far Away
  12. The Wanderer's Allegiance · The Sorrowful City ·
    The Town of Dreams and the City of Present Sorrow ·
    Wínsele Wéste, Windge Reste Réte Berofene · The Song of Eriol
  13. Habbanan beneath the Stars · Eruman beneath the Stars
  14. Tol Eressea · For England: The Lonely Isle ·
    The Lonely Isle
  15. Two-Lieut
  16. A Dream of Coming Home · A Memory of July in England ·
    July · Two Eves in Tavrobel ·
    An Evening in Tavrobel · Once upon a Time
  17. The Thatch of Poppies
  18. The Forest Walker
  19. O Lady Mother Throned amid the Stars · Consolatrix Afflictorum ·
    Stella Vespertina · Mother! O Lady Throned beyond the Stars
  20. To Early Morning Tea ·
    An Ode Inspired by Intimations of the Approach of Early Morning Tea
  21. G.B.S.
  22. Ye Laggard Woodlands
  23. Companions of the Rose
  24. The Grey Bridge of Tavrobel
  25. I Stood upon an Empty Shore
  26. Build Me a Grave beside the Sea ·
    The Brothers-in-Arms
  27. A Rime for My Boy
  28. Nursery Rhymes Undone, or Their Scandalous Secret Unlocked ·
    The Cat and the Fiddle · They Say There's a Little Crooked Inn ·
    There Is an Inn, a Merry Old Inn ·
    The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late
  29. A Rhyme Royal upon Easter Morning
  30. The Ruined Enchanter
  31. The Motor-cyclists

VOLUME TWO[]

  1. Light as Leaf on Lind · As Light as Leaf on Lindentree ·
    The Tale of Tinúviel
  2. Nieninqe · Nieninque
  3. The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin
  4. The Golden Dragon · Túrin Son of Húrin and Glórund the Dragon ·
    The Children of Húrin (alliterative) ·     Winter comes to Nargothrond
  5. The Clerkes Compleinte
  6. Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden · The Hoard
  7. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  8. Enigmata Saxonica Nuper Inventa Duo
  9. Úþwita Sceal Ealdgesægenum
  10. Moonshine
  11. The Nameless Land · The Song of Ælfwine
  12. Ave atque Vale · Lines Composed on an Evening ·
    Lines Composed in a Village Inn
  13. From One to Five
  14. Ruddoc Hana
  15. Ides Ælfscýne
  16. Bagmē Blōma
  17. Éadig Béo Þu
  18. Ofer Wídne Gársecg
  19. I Sat upon a Bench
  20. Pēro & Pōdex · The Root of the Boot ·
    Sam's Song · The Stone Troll
  21. Frenchmen Froth
  22. Lit' and Lang'
  23. All Hail!
  24. The Lion Is Loud and Proud
  25. The Song of Beewolf Son of Echgethew
  26. The Owl and the Nightingale
  27. Pearl
  28. Gawain's Leave-Taking
  29. Lay of Leithian
  30. Shadowland
  31. Knocking at the Door · The Mewlips
  32. Fastitocalon
  33. Iumbo, or Ye Kinde of ye Oliphaunt
  34. Syx Mynet
  1. Lá, Húru
  2. Natura Apis: Morali Ricardi Eremite
  3. The Hills Are Old
  4. Natura Formice (et Significacio Simul)
  5. A Song of Bimble Bay
  6. The Progress of Bimble ·
    Progress in Bimble Town
  7. Glip
  8. The Bumpus · William and the Bumpus ·
    Perry-the-Winkle
  9. Poor Old Grabbler · Old Grabbler
  10. The Dragon's Visit
  11. Chip the Glasses and Crack the Plates!
  12. Far over the Misty Mountains Cold
  13. The Wind Was on the Withered Heath
  14. Down the Swift Dark Stream You Go
  15. Under the Mountain Dark and Tall
  16. O Where Are You Going · The Dragon Is Withered
  17. Sing All Ye Joyful, Now Sing All Together ·
    Elvish Song in Rivendell
  18. Roads Go Ever Ever On · The Road Goes Ever On and On
  19. The Corrigan · The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun
  20. The Lay of Beowulf
  21. Hengest
  22. The Derelicts
  23. Brydleoþ
  24. The History of Tom Bombadil ·
    The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
  25. Monday Morning
  26. Oilima Markirya · The Last Ship · The Last Ark
  27. Earendel · Earendel at the Helm
  28. Dir Avosaith a Gwaew Hinar
  29. The Last of the Old Gods
  30. Vestr um Haf · Bilbo's Last Song (at the Grey Havens)
  31. Errantry · Eärendil Was a Mariner ·
    The Short Lay of Earendel: Earendillínwë
  32. The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son

VOLUME THREE[]

  1. The Children of Húrin (rhyming couplets)
  2. The New Lay of the Völsungs · The New Lay of Gudrún
  3. The Prophecy of the Sibyl
  4. Bleak Heave the Billows
  5. Looney · The Sea-Bell
  6. Quare Fremunt Omnes Gentes
  7. Mythopoeia
  8. The Merryman
  9. A Cherry with No Stone
  10. Doworst · Visio de Doworst
  11. The Fall of Arthur
  12. Firiel · The Last Ship
  13. The Wanderers
  14. When Little Louis Came To Stay
  15. Monaõ Modes Lust mid Mereflode
  16. Ilu Ilúvatar en Káre Eldain a Firimoin
  17. King Sheave
  18. The Shadow Man · Shadow-Bride
  19. Noel
  20. Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the Sky
  21. Upon the Hearth the Fire Is Red
  22. Snow-White! Snow-White! O Lady Clear!
  23. Sing Hey! for the Bath at Close of Day
  24. Farewell We Call to Hearth and Hall
  25. Hey! Come Merry Dol! · Hop Along, My Little Friends
  26. Cold Be Hand and Heart and Bone
  27. All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter
  28. Gil-galad Was an Elven-king
  29. I Sit beside the Fire and Think
  30. The World Was Young, the Mountains Green
  31. The Song of Legolas · An Elven-maid There Was of Old
  32. I Sang of Leaves · Galadriel's Song
  33. Ai! Laurië Lantar Lassi Súrinen · Namárië
  34. Lament of Denethor for Boromir ·
    Through Rohan over Fen and Field
  35. In the Willow-Meads of Tasarinan I Walked in the Spring
  1. When Spring Unfolds the Beechen Leaf
  2. Where Now the Horse and the Rider?
  3. Grey as a Mouse · Oliphaunt
  4. Out of the Mountain Shall They Come Their Tryst Keeping ·
    Over the Land There Lies a Long Shadow
  5. From Dark Dunharrow in the Dim Morning
  6. We Heard of the Horns in the Hills Ringing
  7. I Sit upon the Stones Alone ·
    In Western Lands beneath the Sun
  8. Rhyme
  9. Sir Orfeo
  10. A Closed Letter to Andrea Charicoryides
  11. The Death of St Brendan · Imram
  12. Be He Foe or Friend, Be He Foul or Clean
  13. Scatha the Worm
  14. Wilt Thou Learn the Lore
  15. Cat
  16. You Walk on Grass
  17. The Wind So Whirled a Weathercock
  18. Yénion Yukainen Nunn' ar Anduine Lútie Loar! ·
    Loä Yukainen avar Anduinë Sí Valutier
  19. To the University of Oxford
  20. Gardeners' Secrets · Utch! A Gardener's Secrets
  21. The Complaint of Mîm the Dwarf
  22. Ho! Tom Bombadil · The Fliting of Tom Bombadil ·
    Bombadil Goes Boating
  23. Rosalind Ramage
  24. Three Children
  25. Where the Riming Rune-Tree Blows
  26. Though All Things Fail and Come to Naught
  27. No Longer Fear Champagne
  28. My Heart Is Not in This Land Where I Live
  29. As You Must Admit
  30. ‘At Last the Time Has Come,’ He Said
  31. For W.H.A.
Appendix I. Limericks and Clerihews
Appendix II. Latin Adages
Appendix III. Poem Lists
Appendix IV. Word Lists
Appendix V. Bealuwérig
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Illustrations[]

Morning (no. 1, text A)[1]
Over Old Hills and Far Away (no. 43, text C)
Kortirion among the Trees (no. 40, text A)
The Song of Ælfwinë (no. 74, fine copy)
The Bumpus (no. 105, text A)
The Sea-Bell (no. 134, text G)
List of poems for publication (App. IlI, text D)
Works by J.R.R. Tolkien
Copyright
About the Publisher

From the publisher[]

World first publication of the collected poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, spanning almost seven decades of the author’s life and presented in an elegant three-volume hardback boxed set.

J.R.R. Tolkien aspired to be a poet in the first instance, and poetry was part of his creative life no less than his prose, his languages, and his art. Although Tolkien’s readers are aware that he wrote poetry, if only from verses in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, its extent is not well known, and its qualities are underappreciated. Within his larger works of fiction, poems help to establish character and place as well as further the story; as individual works, they delight with words and rhyme. They express his love of nature and the seasons, of landscape and music, and of words. They convey his humour and his sense of wonder.

The earliest work in this collection, written for his beloved, is dated to 1910, when Tolkien was eighteen. More poems would follow during his years at Oxford, some of them very elaborate and eccentric. Those he composed during the First World War, in which he served in France, tend to be concerned not with trenches and battle, but with life, loss, faith, and friendship, his longing for England, and the wife he left behind. Beginning in 1914, elements of his legendarium, 'The Silmarillion', began to appear, and the 'Matter of Middle-earth' would inspire much of Tolkien’s verse for the rest of his life.

Within The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien almost 200 works are presented across three volumes, including more than 60 that have never before been seen. The poems are deftly woven together with commentary and notes by world-renowned Tolkien scholars Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond, placing them in the context of Tolkien’s life and literary accomplishments and creating a poetical biography that is a unique and revealing celebration of J.R.R. Tolkien.

Errors[]

Following the announcement of the book, Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond pointed out on their blog that while Amazon's store page said there will be 1,368 pages, the book will actually be "more than 1,500 pages". The editors also pointed out that the publisher statement on Amazon said almost 200 poems will be in the book when the number is actually at least 240.[2]

On the Tolkien Collector's Guide website, the editors also revealed that while the statement said that there will be 60 previously unpublished poems, there will actually be 77 never before seen poems.[3]

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References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Google Books - The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien Box Set Three-Volume Box Set By J. R. R. Tolkien · 2024
  2. ↑ "Tolkien's Collected Poems", the announcement article on Hammond and Scull's blog
  3. ↑ The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien on www.tolkienguide.com
J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium
Published works
 The Hobbit (1937) • The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring [1954] • The Two Towers [1954] • The Return of the King [1955])
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book (1962) • The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle (1967)
Posthumous publications
 Bilbo's Last Song (at the Grey Havens) (1974) • The Silmarillion (1977) • Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth (1980)
The History of Middle-earth (The Book of Lost Tales Part One [1983] • The Book of Lost Tales Part Two [1984] • The Lays of Beleriand [1985] • The Shaping of Middle-earth: The Quenta, The Ambarkanta, and The Annals [1986] • The Lost Road and Other Writings [1987] • The Return of the Shadowℌ [1988] • The Treason of Isengardℌ [1989] • The War of the Ringℌ [1990] • Sauron Defeatedℌ [1992] • Morgoth's Ring [1993] • The War of the Jewels [1994] • The Peoples of Middle-earth [1996] • The History of Middle-earth: Index [2006])
Great Tales of Middle-earth (The Children of Húrin [2007] • Beren and Lúthien [2017] • The Fall of Gondolin [2018])
The Nature of Middle-earth (2021) • The Fall of Númenor (2022) • The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien (2024)
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