Songs

From the Books

The Fellowship of the Ring

• 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!
• A Drinking Song - 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 Song of Merry and Pippin - 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
• Sam's Rhyme of the 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

• The 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 Ents' 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 now, 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

• 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

The Fellowship of the Ring

• 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

• 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

• All that is Gold Does Not Glitter - First Line: From the ashes a fire shall be woken
• A Walking Song - First Line: Home is behind, the world ahead
• Into the West - First Line: Lay down

From the Radio Adaptions

• Bilbo's Last Song