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  2. Goblin Feet - Wikipedia

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    An accompanying illustration to the poem by Warwick Goble from The Book of Fairy Poetry (1920) "Goblin Feet" is a poem written in 1915 by J. R. R. Tolkien for Edith Mary Bratt, his wife-to-be. It celebrates the diminutive type of elf that Tolkien soon came to dislike, and he regretted having published the poem.

  3. The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien - Wikipedia

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    The first poem in the collection is from 1910, addressed it to Tolkien's future wife Edith Bratt. Christopher Tolkien shared drafts of poetry, and received several edited poems as an ouline of the suggested collection. He died in 2020; the book was approved for publication by HarperCollins and by the Tolkien Estate trustees.

  4. On Fairy-Stories - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien was a professional philologist and an author of fantasy fiction, starting with the children's book The Hobbit in 1937. The Andrew Lang Lecture was important as it brought him to clarify his view of fairy stories as a legitimate literary genre, rather than something intended exclusively for children. [2]

  5. Tolkien's poetry - Wikipedia

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    Tolkien's poetry is extremely varied, including both the poems and songs of Middle-earth, and other verses written throughout his life.Over 60 poems are embedded in the text of The Lord of the Rings; there are others in The Hobbit and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil; and many more in his Middle-earth legendarium and other manuscripts which remained unpublished in his lifetime, some of book length.

  6. Tree and Leaf - Wikipedia

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    Tree and Leaf is a small anthology of works by J. R. R. Tolkien published in 1964 [1] and originally illustrated by Pauline Baynes which consisted of: . a revised version of an essay called "On Fairy-Stories" (originally published in 1947 in Essays Presented to Charles Williams)

  7. Poetry in The Lord of the Rings - Wikipedia

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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 contains over 60 pieces of verse of many kinds; some poems related to the book were published separately.

  8. Leaf by Niggle - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien was a scholar of English literature, a philologist and medievalist interested in language and poetry from the Middle Ages, especially that of Anglo-Saxon England and Northern Europe. His professional knowledge of works such as Beowulf shaped his fictional world of Middle-earth , including his high fantasy novel The Lord of the ...

  9. List of Tolkien's alliterative verse - Wikipedia

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    It was originally an incomplete portion of a longer projected poem written in the late 1930s, but was treated as a complete poem for its insertion into Tolkien's unfinished novel The Notion Club Papers, published in Sauron Defeated (1992). [7] Nearly identical versions appear in The Lost Road and Other Writings and in Sauron Defeated.