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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|Poems in ''The Hobbit'']] and [[Poems in The Lord of the Rings|Poems in ''The Lord of the Rings'']]).


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]].
:''See also: [[Index:Unpublished material#Poetry]]''


==1910s==
==1910s==
* ''[[The Battle of the Eastern Field]]'' [[1911]]
* ''[[The Battle of the Eastern Field]]'', [[1911]]
* ''[[From the many-willow'd margin of the immemorial Thames]]'' [[1913]]
* ''[[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 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 )
* ''[[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)
* ''[[Tinfang Warble (poem)|Tinfang Warble]]'', [[1914]] (''[[The Book of Lost Tales Part One]]'', p. 108)
* ''[[Goblin Feet]]'' [[1915]]
* ''[[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)
* ''[[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)
* ''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)
* ''[[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.)
* ''[[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)
* ''[[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.)
* ''[[The Shores of Faëry]]'', [[1915]] (also ''The Shores of Elfland'', ''[[The Book of Lost Tales Part Two]]'', pp. 271-272)
* ''[[Habbanan beneath the Stars]]'' [[1916]] (''[[The Book of Lost Tales Part One]]'' pp. 91f.)
* ''[[Habbanan beneath the Stars]]'', [[1916]] (''[[The Book of Lost Tales Part One]]'', pp. 91-92)
* ''[[Narqelion]]'' [[1915]]-[[1916]]
* ''[[Narqelion]]'', [[1915]]-[[1916]]
* ''[[The Sorrowful City]]'' [[1916]] (''[[The Book of Lost Tales Part Two]]'' pp. 295–298)
* ''[[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 Song of Eriol]]'', [[1917]] (''[[The Book of Lost Tales Part Two]]'', pp. 298-299)
* ''[[The Horns of Ulmo]]'' [[1917]]
* ''[[The Horns of Ylmir|The Horns of Ulmo]]'', [[1917]] (''[[The Shaping of Middle-earth]]'', pp. 215-217)


==1920s==
==1920s==
* ''[[The Happy Mariners]]'', published in [[1920]], composed in [[1915]] (''[[The Book of Lost Tales Part Two]]'' pp. 273-276)
* ''[[The Happy Mariners]]'', published in [[1920]], composed in [[1915]] (''[[The Book of Lost Tales Part Two]]'', pp. 273-276)
* ''[[The Clerkes Compleinte]]'' [[1922]]
* ''[[The Clerkes Compleinte]]'', [[1922]]
* ''[[Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden]]'' [[1923]]
* ''[[Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden]]'', [[1923]] (''[[Beowulf and the Critics]]'', pp. ??)
* ''[[The Eadigan Saelidan]]'' [[1923]]
* Poems in ''[[A Northern Venture]]'', published in June [[1923]]
* ''[[The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon]]'' [[1923]]
:* ''[[The Eadigan Saelidan]]''
* ''[[Enigmata Saxonica Nuper Inventa Duo]]'' [[1923]]
:* ''[[The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon]]''
* ''[[The Cat and the Fiddle: A Nursery-Rhyme Undone and its Scandalous Secret Unlocked]]'' [[1923]]
:* ''[[Enigmata Saxonica Nuper Inventa Duo]]''
* ''[[An Evening in Tavrobel]]'' [[1924]]
* ''[[The Cat and the Fiddle: A Nursery-Rhyme Undone and its Scandalous Secret Unlocked]]'', [[1923]]
* ''[[The Lonely Isle]]'' [[1924]]
* ''[[An Evening in Tavrobel]]'', [[1924]]
* ''[[The Princess Ní]]'' [[1924]]
* ''[[The Lonely Isle]]'', [[1924]]
* ''[[Light as Leaf on Lindentree]]'' [[1925]]
* ''[[The Princess Ní]]'', [[1924]]
* ''[[The Children of Húrin]]'' (begun in [[1920]] or earlier, continued to 1925) (''[[The Lays of Beleriand]]'', pp. 3-130)
* ''[[Light as Leaf on Lindentree]]'', [[1925]] (''[[The Lays of Beleriand]]'', pp. 108-110)
* ''[[The Flight of the Noldoli from Valinor]]'' [[1925]] (''[[The Lays of Beleriand]]'', pp. 131-141)
* ''[[The Lay of the Children of Húrin]]'', begun in [[1920]] or earlier, continued to 1925 (''[[The Lays of Beleriand]]'', pp. 3-130)
* ''[[The Lay of Eärendel]]'' 1920s (''[[The Lays of Beleriand]]'', pp. 141-144)
* ''[[The Flight of the Noldoli from Valinor]]'', [[1925]] (''[[The Lays of Beleriand]]'', pp. 131-141)
* ''[[The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin]]'' 1920s (''[[The Lays of Beleriand]]'', pp. 144-149)
* ''[[The Lay of Eärendel]]'', 1920s (''[[The Lays of Beleriand]]'', pp. 141-144)
* ''[[The Lay of Leithian]]'' [[1925]]–[[1931]] (''[[The Lays of Beleriand]]'', pp. 150-367)
* ''[[The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin]]'', 1920s (''[[The Lays of Beleriand]]'', pp. 144-149)
* ''[[Knocking at the Door]]'' (?[[1927]])
* ''[[The Lay of Leithian]]'', [[1925]]-[[1931]] (''[[The Lays of Beleriand]]'', pp. 150-367)
* ''[[The Nameless Land]]'' [[1927]]
* ''[[Knocking at the Door]]'', [[1927]]?
* ''[[Adventures in Unnatural History and Medieval Metres, being the Freaks of Fisiologus]]'' [[1927]]:
* ''[[The Nameless Land]]'', [[1927]] (''[[The Lost Road and Other Writings]]'', pp. 98-100)
* ''[[Adventures in Unnatural History and Medieval Metres, being the Freaks of Fisiologus]]'', [[1927]]:
:* ''[[Fastitocalon (poem)|Fastitocalon]]''
:* ''[[Fastitocalon (poem)|Fastitocalon]]''
:* ''[[Iumbo]]''
:* ''[[Iumbo]]''
* ''[[Tinfang Warble]]'', published in [[1927]], composed in [[1914]]
* ''[[Tinfang Warble (poem)|Tinfang Warble]]'', published in [[1927]], composed in [[1914]]


==1930s==
==1930s==
* ''[[The Lay of Beowulf]]'' (early 1930s?)
* ''[[The Lay of Beowulf]]'', early 1930s? (''[[Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary]]'', pp. ??)
* ''[[The Owl and the Nightingale]]''
* ''[[The Owl and the Nightingale]]''
* ''[[Progress in Bimble Town]]'' [[1931]]
* ''[[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]]:
* 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)
:* ''[[Oilima Markirya]]'' (with a revised version from much later date)
:* ''[[Oilima Markirya|The Last Ark]]''
:* ''[[Oilima Markirya|The Last Ark]]''
:* ''[[Nieninque]]''
:* ''[[Nieninque]]''
:* ''[[Earendel]]''
:* ''[[Earendel (poem)|Earendel]]''
:* ''[[Earendel at the Helm]]''
:* ''[[Earendel at the Helm]]''
:* ''[[Dir avosaith]]''
:* ''[[Dir avosaith]]''
* ''[[Errantry]]'' [[1933]]
* ''[[Errantry]]'', [[1933]]
* ''[[Firiel (poem)|Firiel]]'' [[1934]]
* ''[[Firiel (poem)|Firiel]]'', [[1934]]
* ''[[Looney]]'' [[1934]]
* ''[[Looney]]'', [[1934]]
* ''[[Shadow-Bride|The Shadow Man]]'' (published in [[1936]])
* ''[[Shadow-Bride|The Shadow Man]]'' (published in [[1936]])
* ''[[Noel]]'' (published in [[1936]])
* ''[[Noel]]'' (published in [[1936]])
* ''[[Songs for the Philologists]]'', with E.V. Gordon et al., published [[1936]]:
* ''[[Songs for the Philologists]]'', with E.V. Gordon et al., published in [[1936]]:
:* ''[[Bagmē Blōma|Bagme Bloma]]''
:* ''[[Bagmē Blōma]]''
:* ''[[Éadig Béo þu!]]''
:* ''[[Éadig Béo þu!]]''
:* ''[[Frenchmen Froth]]''
:* ''[[Frenchmen Froth]]''
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:* ''[[I Sat upon a Bench]]''
:* ''[[I Sat upon a Bench]]''
:* ''[[Ides Ælfscýne]]''
:* ''[[Ides Ælfscýne]]''
:* ''[[La Húru]]''
:* ''[[Húru]]''
:* ''[[Lit and Lang]]''
:* ''[[Lit and Lang]]''
:* ''[[Natura Apis: Morali Ricardi Eremite]]''
:* ''[[Natura Apis: Morali Ricardi Eremite]]''
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:* ''[[Ruddoc Hana]]''
:* ''[[Ruddoc Hana]]''
:* ''[[Syx Mynet]]''
:* ''[[Syx Mynet]]''
* ''[[The Dragon's Visit]]'' [[1937]]
* ''[[The Dragon's Visit]]'', [[1937]]
* ''[[Again this year, my dear Priscilla]]'' (1938), in [[Letters from Father Christmas]]
* ''[[Again this year, my dear Priscilla]]'', [[1938]] (''[[Letters from Father Christmas]]'')


==1940s==
==1940s==
* ''[[The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun]]'', published in Welsh Review, December [[1945]]
* ''[[Fíriel's song]]'', [[1940]]? (''[[The Lost Road and Other Writings]]'', p. 72)
* ''[[Imram]]'' (''The Death of [[St. Brendan]]'') [[1946]] (published in ''Time and Tide'', December [[1955]], ''[[The History of The Lord of the Rings|Sauron Defeated]]'' 261ff,296ff)
* ''[[The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun]]'', December [[1945]] ([[The Welsh Review (Vol.IV, No.4)|Welsh Review]])
* ''[[Imram]]'' (''The Death of [[Saint Brendan]]''), [[1946]] (''[[Time and Tide (3 December 1955)|Time and Tide]]'', December [[1955]]; ''[[Sauron Defeated]]'' pp. 261ff, 296ff)


==1950s==
==1950s==
*  Elvish translations of [[catholic]] prayers (ed. Wynne, Smith, Hostetter in [[Vinyar Tengwar]] 43, 44, [[2002]]), composed in the 1950s:
*  Elvish translations of [[catholic]] prayers (ed. Wynne, Smith, Hostetter in [[Vinyar Tengwar]] [[Vinyar Tengwar 43|43]], [[Vinyar Tengwar 44|44]], [[2002]]), composed in the 1950s:
:* ''[[Ataremma versions]]'' (Quenya ''Pater Noster'') versions I-VI
:* ''[[Átaremma]]'' (Quenya ''Pater Noster'') versions I-VI
:* ''[[Aia María]]'' (Quenya ''Ave Maria'') versions I-IV
:* ''[[Aia María]]'' (Quenya ''Ave Maria'') versions I-IV
:* ''[[Loreto]]'' in Quenya
:* ''[[Litany of Loreto]]'' in Quenya
:* ''[[Ortírielyanna]]'' (Quenya ''Sub Tuum Praesidium'')  
:* ''[[Ortírielyanna]]'' (Quenya ''Sub Tuum Praesidium'')  
:* ''[[Alcar i Ataren]]'' (Quenya ''Gloria Patri'')
:* ''[[Alcar i Ataren]]'' (Quenya ''Gloria Patri'')
:* ''[[Alcar mi tarmenel na Erun]]'' (Quenya ''Gloria in Excelsis Deo'')
:* ''[[Alcar mi tarmenel na Erun]]'' (Quenya ''Gloria in Excelsis Deo'')
:* ''[[Ae Adar Nín]]'' (Sindarin ''Pater Noster'')
:* ''[[Ae Adar Nín]]'' (Sindarin ''Pater Noster'')
* ''[[The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth|The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son]]'' [[1953]]
* ''[[The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth|The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son]]'', [[1953]]
* ''[[Twenty years have flowed away]]'' [[1958]]
* ''[[Twenty years have flowed away]]'', [[1958]]


==1960s==
==1960s==
* ''[[The Adventures of Tom Bombadil]]'' published in [[1962]]:
* ''[[The Adventures of Tom Bombadil]]'', published in [[1962]]:
** ''[[The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (poem)|The Adventures of Tom Bombadil]]''
** ''[[The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (poem)|The Adventures of Tom Bombadil]]''
** ''[[Bombadil Goes Boating]]''
** ''[[Bombadil Goes Boating]]''
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** ''[[The Sea-Bell]]''
** ''[[The Sea-Bell]]''
** ''[[The Last Ship]]''
** ''[[The Last Ship]]''
* ''[[Poem for Rosalind Ramage]]'' ([[1964]])
* ''[[Rosalind Ramage]]'', [[1964]]
* ''[[Once upon a Time]]'' [[1965]]
* ''[[Once upon a Time]]'', [[1965]] (''[[Winter's Tales for Children 1]]'', pp. 44-45)
* ''[[Bilbo's Last Song]]'' [[1966]] (first published as a poster in [[1974]])
* ''[[Bilbo's Last Song]]'', [[1966]] (first published as a poster in [[1974]])
* ''[[For W.H.A.]]'' in [[1967]] in Shenandoah
* ''[[For W.H.A.]]'', [[1967]] (in [[Shenandoah: A Tribute to Wystan Hugh Auden on his Sixtieth Birthday|Shenandoah]])


==Unknown year==
==Unknown year==
* ''[[The Complaint of Mîm the Dwarf]]''
* ''[[Doworst]]''
* ''[[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.
* ''[[Mythopoeia]]'' published in certain editions of ''Tree and Leaf'', republished in [[1999]] in an edition of ''Tree and Leaf'' in the U.K. only.

Revision as of 14:58, 24 July 2021

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).

See also: Index:Unpublished material#Poetry

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