Poems in The Lord of the Rings

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

This article contains a list of poems found within The Lord of the Rings.

The Fellowship of the Ring

Book I

• The Road Goes Ever On and On
• Three Rings for the Elven-Kings Under the Sky
• A Walking Song
• Snow-white! Snow-white! O Lady Clear!
• Ho! Ho! Ho! To the Bottle I Go
• The Bath Song
• Farewell We Call to Hearth and Hall!
• O! Wanderers in the Shadowed Land
• Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!
• Hop along, my little friends, up the Withywindle!
• O slender as a willow-wand!
• I Had An Errand There: Gathering Water-Lilies
• Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo!
• Cold Be Hand and Heart and Bone
• Get Out! You old Wight! Vanish in the Sunlight!
• Wake Now My Merry Lads! Wake and Hear Me Calling!
• Hey! Now! Come Hoy Now! Whither Do You Wander?
• The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late
• All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter
• The Fall of Gil-galad
• Song of Beren and Lúthien
• The Stone Troll

Book II

• Eärendil was a mariner
• A Elbereth Gilthoniel
• Seek for the Sword that was broken
• When winter first begins to bite
• I sit beside the fire and think
• The world was young, the mountains green
• An Elven-maid there was of old
• When evening in the Shire was grey
• I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold (Galadriel's Song of Eldamar)
• Ai! laurië lantar lassi súrinen (Namárië)

The Two Towers

Book III

• Through Rohan Over Fen and Field Where the Long Grass Grows
• Gondor! Gondor, between the Mountains and the Sea!
• Learn now the lore of Living Creatures!
• In The Willow-meads Of Tasarinan
• When Spring unfolds the beechen leaf, and sap is in the bough
• O Orofarne Lassemista, Carnimirie!
• We come, we come with roll of drum
• Where now are the Dunedain, Elessar, Elessar?
• Where now the horse and the rider?
• In Dwimordene, in Lorien

Book IV

• The cold hard lands
• Oliphaunt

The Return of the King

Book V

• Over land there lies a long shadow
• From dark Dunharrow in the dim morning
• Arise, arise, Riders of Theoden!
• Song of the Mounds of Mundburg
• When the black breath blows
• Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui

Book VI

• 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
• Sing now, ye people of the Tower of Anor
• Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day’s rising
• The Road goes ever on and on
• Still around the corner there may wait