Songs
From Tolkien Gateway
From the Books[edit | edit source]
The Fellowship of the Ring[edit | edit source]
- All that is Gold Does Not Glitter
- Seek for the Sword that was broken
- The Road Goes Ever On - a.k.a. The Old Walking song
- Song of Nimrodel - First Line: An Elven-maid there was of old
- The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late - First Line: There is an inn, a merry old inn
- Verse of the Rings - First Line: Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky
- A Walking Song - First Line: Upon the hearth the fire is red
- Elven Hymn to Elbereth - First Line: Snow-white! Snow-white! O Lady clear!
- Ho! Ho! Ho! To the Bottle I Go - First Line: Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go
- The Bath Song - First Line: Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
- Farewell We Call to Hearth and Hall! - First Line: Farewell we call to hearth and hall!
- Song in the Woods - First Line: O! Wanderers in the shadowed land
- Tom Bombadil's Songs - First Line: Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo
- note- as in The Lord of the Rings songs index, all Tom Bombadil's songs are treated as a continuation of the first one
- The Fall of Gil-galad - First Line: Gil-galad was an Elven-king
- Song of Beren and Lúthien - First Line: The leaves were long, the grass was green
- The Stone Troll - First Line: Troll sat alone on his seat of stone
- Song of Eärendil - First Line: Eärendil was a mariner
- Warning of Winter - First Line: When winter first begins to bite
- Wight's Chant - First Line: Cold be hand and heart and bone
The Two Towers[edit | edit source]
- Long List of the Ents - First Line: Learn now the lore of Living Creatures!
- The Ent and the Entwife - First Line: When spring unfolds the beechen leaf, and sap is in the bough
- Bregalad's Song - First Line: O Orofarnë, Lassemista, Carnimírië!
- The Ent's Marching Song - First Line: We come, we come with roll of drum:
- Galadriel's Messages - First Line: Where now are the Dúnedain, Elessar, Elessar?
- Call-to-Arms of the Rohirrim - First Line: Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
- Gandalf's Song of Lórien - First Line: In Dwimordene, in Lórien
- Lament for the Rohirrim - First Line: Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
- Oliphaunt - First Line: Grey as a mouse
The Return of the King[edit | edit source]
- Malbeth the Seer's Words - First Line: Over the land there lies a long shadow
- Athelas - First Line: When the black breath blows
From the Movies[edit | edit source]
The Fellowship of the Ring[edit | edit source]
- The Road Goes Ever On
- A Drinking Song - First Line: To heal my heart and drown my woe
- The Bath Song - First Line: Sweet is the sound of the falling rain
The Two Towers[edit | edit source]
- Bregalad's Song - First Line: O rowan mine, I saw you shine upon a summer's day
- The Ent and the Entwife - First Line: Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold
The Return of the King[edit | edit source]
- All that is Gold Does Not Glitter - First Line: From the ashes a fire shall be woken
- A Walking Song - First Line: Upon the hearth the fire is red,
- Into the West - First Line: Lay down
