| This article is about the poem. For the character, see Tinfang. |
Tinfang Warble is a poem from The Book of Lost Tales Part One. It was originally written in Oxford in 1914, then it was rewritten in Leeds in the early 1920s and it was finally published in 1927 after a third revision.[1]
Poem excerpt[]
O the hoot! O the hoot!
How he trillups on his flute!
O the hoot of Tinfang Warble!
Dancing all alone,
Hopping on a stone,
Flitting like a fawn,
In the twilight on the lawn,
And his name is Tinfang Warble!
The first star has shown
And its lamp is blown
to a flame of flickering blue.
He pipes not to me,
He pipes not to thee,
He whistles for none of you.
His music is his own,
The tunes of Tinfang Warble!
References[]
- ↑ The History of Middle-earth, Vol. I: The Book of Lost Tales Part One, chapter IV: "The Chaining of Melko"