Index:Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien

The name Poem refers to more than one character, item or concept. For a list of other meanings, see Poetry (disambiguation).

This is a list of poems written by J.R.R. Tolkien (years are the date of composition, if not stated otherwise). It does not include poems published within Tolkien's legendarium.

1910s

• 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 1914 (The Book of Lost Tales Part Two pp. 267–269)
• The Bidding of the Minstrel 1914 (The Book of Lost Tales Part Two pp. 269–271 )
• Tinfang Warble 1914 (The Book of Lost Tales Part One p. 108)
• Goblin Feet 1915
• You and Me / and the Cottage of Lost Play 1915 (revised as The Little House of Lost Play / Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva, The Book of Lost Tales Part One pp. 27–31)
• Kôr 1915, published as The City of the Gods in 1923 (The Book of Lost Tales Part One p. 136)
• Kortirion among the Trees 1915 (revised in 1937 and in the 1960s, The Trees of Kortirion, The Book of Lost Tales Part One pp. 33–43)
• Over Old Hills and Far Away 1915 (rewritten in 1927, The Book of Lost Tales Part One pp. 108–110.)
• A Song of Aryador 1915 (The Book of Lost Tales Part One p. 139)
• The Shores of Elfland 1915 (also The Shores of Faëry, The Book of Lost Tales Part Two pp. 271f.)
• Habbanan beneath the Stars 1916 (The Book of Lost Tales Part One pp. 91f.)
• Narqelion 1915-1916
• The Sorrowful City 1916 (The Book of Lost Tales Part Two pp. 295–298)
• The Song of Eriol 1917 (The Book of Lost Tales Part Two pp. 298f.)
• The Horns of Ulmo 1917

1920s

• The Happy Mariners, published in 1920, composed in 1915 (The Book of Lost Tales Part Two pp. 273-276)
• The Clerkes Compleinte 1922
• Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden 1923
• The Eadigan Saelidan 1923
• The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon 1923
• Enigmata Saxonica 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 Ní 1924
• Light as Leaf on Lindentree 1925
• The Children of Húrin (begun in 1920 or earlier, continued to 1925) (The Lays of Beleriand, pp. 3-130)
• The Flight of the Noldoli from Valinor 1925 (The Lays of Beleriand, pp. 131-141)
• The Lay of Eärendel 1920s (The Lays of Beleriand, pp. 141-144)
• The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin 1920s (The Lays of Beleriand, pp. 144-149)
• The Lay of Leithian 1925–1931 (The Lays of Beleriand, pp. 150-367)
• Knocking at the Door (?1927)
• The Nameless Land 1927
• Adventures in Unnatural History and Medieval Metres, being the Freaks of Fisiologus 1927:

• Fastitocalon
• Iumbo

• Tinfang Warble, published in 1927, composed in 1914

1930s

• The Lay of Beowulf (early 1930s?)
• The Owl and the Nightingale
• Progress in Bimble Town 1931
• Poems in the essay A Secret Vice (1931), published in 1983 in The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays:

• Oilima Markirya (with a revised version from much later date)
• The Last Ark
• Nieninque
• Earendel
• Earendel at the Helm
• Dir avosaith

• Errantry 1933
• Firiel 1934
• Looney 1934
• The Shadow Man (published in 1936)
• Noel (published in 1936)
• 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
• Again this year, my dear Priscilla (1938), in Letters from Father Christmas

1940s

• 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)

1950s

• 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
• 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
• Twenty years have flowed away 1958

1960s

• 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
• Poem for Rosalind Ramage (1964)
• 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

Unknown year

• Doworst
• Mythopoeia published in certain editions of Tree and Leaf, republished in 1999 in an edition of Tree and Leaf in the U.K. only.