Poems in The Lord of the Rings
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This article contains a list of poems found within The Lord of the Rings.
The Fellowship of the Ring[edit | edit source]
Book I[edit | edit source]
Book II[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
Book III[edit | edit source]
- Through Rohan Over Fen and Field Where the Long Grass Grows
- Gondor! Gondor, between the Mountains and the Sea!
- Arise now, arise, Riders of Theoden!
- Long List of the Ents
- 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
- Ere iron was found or tree was hewn
- Rhymes of Lore
Book IV[edit | edit source]
The Return of the King[edit | edit source]
Book V[edit | edit source]
- Over the land there lies a long shadow
- From dark Dunharrow in the dim morning
- Arise, arise, Riders of Theoden!
- Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day’s rising
- Song of the Mounds of Mundburg
- When the black breath blows
- Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui
Book VI[edit | edit source]
- 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
- Upon the Hearth the Fire is Red