The City of the Gods is a poem written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published in Spring 1923 in the magazine The Microcosm, Vol.8 No.1. It was published earlier on 30 April 1915 as Kôr with the subtitle "In a City Lost and Dead" and can also be read within The Book of Lost Tales Part One.[2]
Poem excerpt
A sable hill, gigantic, rampant-crowned
stands gazing out across an azure sea
under an azure sky, on whose dark ground
impearled as 'gainst a floor of porphyry
gleam marble temples white, and dazzling halls;
See also
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator, 1995, Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part One, "III. The Coming of the Valar and the Building of Valinor": "Notes and Commentary", p. 136