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| Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| Oliphaunt | |
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| Poem Information | |
| Other names | Iumbo, or ye Kinde of ye Oliphaunt |
| Written | Before 1927 |
| Revised | April, 1944 |
| Published | Stapeldon Magazine The Two Towers, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Oliphaunt Oliphaunt The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Subject(s) | Oliphaunts, Samwise Gamgee |
Oliphaunt is the title of a short comic poem about the beast quoted by the hobbit Samwise Gamgee to Gollum as they and Frodo Baggins rested in the dell before the Morannon.[1] It was a piece of traditional bestiary lore of the Shire-hobbits.[2]
Poem excerpt
Grey as a mouse,
Big as a house,
Nose like a snake,
I make the earth shake,
As I tramp through the grass;
Trees crack as I pass.[3]
Other versions of the legendarium
An early version of the poem was published as Iumbo, or ye Kinde of ye Oliphaunt in The Stapeldon Magazine, Oxford, vol. 7, no. 40 in June 1927 on pages 125-127.[4]
Portrayal in adaptations
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