The Song of Eriol is a poem written by J.R.R. Tolkien in 1917. The poem was first written in March of 1916, originally being called The Wanderer's Allegiance before being changed to The Sorrowful City. This form of the poem was published within The Book of Lost Tales Part Two.[1] The poem was eventually reworked into The Song of Eriol, though the opening segment of thr original version remains.[2]
Poem except
Eriol made a song in the Room of the Tale-fire telling how his feet were sect to wandering, so that in the end he found the Lonely Isle and that fairest town Kortirion.
In unknown days my fathers' sires
came, and from son to son took root
among the orchards and the river-meads
and the long grasses of the fragrant plain:
many a summer saw they kindle yellow fires
of flaglilies among the bowing reeds,
and many a sea of blossom turn to golden fruit
in walled gardens of the great champain.
See also
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "VI. The History of Eriol or Ælfwine and the End of the Tales", pp. 295-298
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, "VI. The History of Eriol or Ælfwine and the End of the Tales", pp. 298-300