Bilbo's Last Song
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Bilbo's Last Song is a poem by J. R. R. Tolkien, written as a pendant to his fantasy The Lord of the Rings. It was first published in a Dutch translation in 1973, subsequently appearing in English on
3rd edition; Red Fox, 2012
The Navigator-monk St Brendan at St Benin's Church, Kilbannen. In his 1955 poem Imram, Tolkien sends Brendan past Númenor to Aman, bringing him home to die in Ireland.
Donald Swann (right) in revue with Michael Flanders on Broadway in 1959
Smith of Wootton Major
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Smith of Wootton Major, first published in 1967, is a novella by J. R. R. Tolkien. It tells the tale of a Great Cake, baked for the once in twenty-four year Feast of Good Children. The Master Cook, No
Bilbo's Last Song
…Tolkien's invented Sindarin of his poem I Sit Beside the Fire and Think. Tom Shippey brackets Bilbo's Last Song with Tolkien's late, elegiac short story Smith of Wootton Major and with his valedictory address to the University of Oxford. "[Bilbo's] words could, ... entirely appropriately for myth, be removed from their 'Grey…
First edition front cover; the illustration extends over the spine to the back cover.
Black and white illustration, as requested by Tolkien, by Pauline Baynes of Smith and his family for the first edition, 1967.
Josh B. Long likens the Faery Queen with lilies to the Virgin Mary. Glazed terracotta plaque The Virgin of the Lilies, Della Robbia family workshop, 16th century