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Poetry in The Lord of the Rings
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The poetry in The Lord of the Rings consists of the poems and songs written by J. R. R. Tolkien, interspersed with the prose of his high fantasy novel of Middle-earth, The Lord of the Rings. The book
Tolkien may have taken the method of embedding poems in a text from William Morris's 1895 Life and Death of Jason (frontispiece shown).
Tolkien may have taken the method of embedding poems in a text from William Morris's 1895 Life and Death of Jason (frontispiece shown).
Tolkien's Tom Bombadil resembles the demigod Väinämöinen from the Finnish epic poem Kalevala in controlling his world with song. Painting – The Defens
Tolkien's Tom Bombadil resembles the demigod Väinämöinen from the Finnish epic poem Kalevala in controlling his world with song. Painting – The Defense of the Sampo – by Akseli Gallen-Kallela, 1896
The Tolkien Ensemble have published their settings of all the poems in The Lord of the Rings on CDs.
The Tolkien Ensemble have published their settings of all the poems in The Lord of the Rings on CDs.
The Road Goes Ever On (song)
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"The Road Goes Ever On" is a title that encompasses several walking songs that J. R. R. Tolkien wrote for his Middle-earth legendarium. Within the stories, the original song was composed by Bilbo Bagg
Poetry in The Lord of the Rings
…Swann. All the poems in The Lord of the Rings were set to music and published on CDs by The Tolkien Ensemble. The verse is of many kinds, including for wandering, marching to war, drinking, and having a bath; narrating ancient myths, riddles, prophecies, and magical incantations; of praise and lament (elegy…
Illustration of the road by Kay Nielsen for the 1914 fairy tale East of the Sun and West of the Moon, whose title Tolkien uses in one of his walking s
Illustration of the road by Kay Nielsen for the 1914 fairy tale East of the Sun and West of the Moon, whose title Tolkien uses in one of his walking songs for Aman, the desired other world.
"The door where it began": the house of Bilbo and later Frodo Baggins at Bag End, Hobbiton, as created for Peter Jackson's Middle-earth films
"The door where it began": the house of Bilbo and later Frodo Baggins at Bag End, Hobbiton, as created for Peter Jackson's Middle-earth films