Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien
From Tolkien Gateway
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.
- The Battle of the Eastern Field 1911
- From the many-willow'd margin of the immemorial Thames 1913
- The Voyage of Eärendel the Evening Star (The Book of Lost Tales 2 267–269) 1914
- The Bidding of the Minstrel 1914 (The Book of Lost Tales 2 261f.,269f. )
- Tinfang Warble 1914 (The Book of Lost Tales 1 107f.)
- Goblin Feet 1915
- You and Me / and the Cottage of Lost Play 1915 (The Book of Lost Tales 1 27f.)
- Kôr 1915, published as The City of the Gods in 1923 (The Book of Lost Tales 1 136)
- Kortirion among the Trees 1915 (revised in 1937 and in the 1960s, The Trees of Kortirion)
- Over Old Hills and Far Away 1915
- A Song of Aryador 1915
- The Shores of Elfland 1915
- Habbanan beneath the Stars 1916
- The Sorrowful City 1916
- The Song of Eriol 1917 (The Book of Lost Tales 2 298ff.)
- The Horns of Ulmo 1917
- The Happy Mariners, published in 1920, composed in 1915
- The Clerke's Compleinte 1922
- Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden 1923
- The Eadigan Saelidan 1923
- The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon 1923
- Enigmala Saxonic - a Nuper Inventa Duo 1923
- The Cat and the Fiddle: A Nursery-Rhyme Undone and its Scandalous Secret Unlocked 1923
- An Evening in Tavrobel 1924
- The Lonely Isle 1924
- The Princess Ni 1924
- Light as Leaf on Lindentree 1925
- The Children of Húrin (begun in 1920 or earlier, continued to 1925) (The Lays of Beleriand, pp. 3-130)
- The Flight of the Noldoli from Valinor 1925 (The Lays of Beleriand, pp. 131-141)
- The Lay of Eärendel 1920s (The Lays of Beleriand, pp. 141-144)
- The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin 1920s (The Lays of Beleriand, pp. 144-149)
- The Lay of Leithian 1925–1931 (The Lays of Beleriand, pp. 150-367)
- The Nameless Land 1927
- Adventures in Unnatural History and Medieval Metres, being the Freaks of Fisiologus 1927:
- Tinfang Warble, published in 1927, composed in 1914
- 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:
- Oilima Markirya (with a revised version from much later date)
- The Last Ark
- Nieninque
- Earendel
- Earendel at the Helm
- Dir avosaith
- Errantry 1933
- Firiel 1934
- Looney 1934
- Songs for the Philologists, with E.V. Gordon et al., published 1936:
- The Dragon's Visit 1937
- Knocking at the Door: Lines induced by sensations when waiting for an answer at the door of an Exalted Academic Person 1937
- Again this year, my dear Priscilla (1938), in Letters from Father Christmas
- The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, published in Welsh Review, December 1945
- Imram (The Death of St. Brendan) 1946 (published in Time and Tide, December 1955, Sauron Defeated 261ff,296ff)
- Elvish translations of catholic prayers (ed. Wynne, Smith, Hostetter in Vinyar Tengwar 43, 44, 2002), composed in the 1950s:
- Ataremma versions (Quenya Pater Noster) versions I-VI
- Aia María (Quenya Ave Maria) versions I-IV
- Loreto in Quenya
- Ortírielyanna (Quenya Sub Tuum Praesidium)
- Alcar i Ataren (Quenya Gloria Patri)
- Alcar mi tarmenel na Erun (Quenya Gloria in Excelsis Deo)
- Ae Adar Nín (Sindarin Pater Noster)
- The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son 1953
- The Adventures of Tom Bombadil published in 1962:
- Once upon a time 1965
- Bilbo's Last Song 1966 (first published as a poster in 1974)
- For W.H.A. in 1967 in Shenandoah
- Narqelion published in 1988 in Mythlore
- Mythopoeia published in certain editions of Tree and Leaf, republished in 1999 in an edition of Tree and Leaf in the U.K. only.
