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 The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (see Poems in The Hobbit and Poems in The Lord of the Rings).

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:

• Bagmē Blōma
• Éadig Béo þu!
• Frenchmen Froth
• From One to Five
• I Sat upon a Bench
• Ides Ælfscýne
• Lá 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:

• Átaremma (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.