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Though J. R. R. Tolkien wrote poems starting from childhood, his poetry was less successful than the prose in his books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (which both contained poems embedded in the text). The first poem in the collection is from 1910, addressed to Tolkien's future wife Edith Bratt. Christopher Tolkien shared drafts of poetry ...
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.
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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. J. R. R. Tolkien embedded over 60 poems 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and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil; and many more in his Middle-earth legendarium and other manuscripts which remained unpublished in his lifetime ...
King Sheave, a poem describing the arrival of Sheave , a postulated Germanic culture hero, in 154 lines. 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 ...
Poems and Songs of Middle Earth [a] is a studio album of spoken-word poetry by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien and art songs composed by the English musician Donald Swann. On the first half of the album, Tolkien recites seven poems from or related to his fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).
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