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  2. Hobbit Day - Wikipedia

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    Celebration cake for Hobbit Day at the Green Dragon Tavern on the Hobbiton Movie Set, in 2016. Hobbit Day is a name used for September 22nd in reference to its being the birthday of the hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, two fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's popular set of books The Hobbit (first published on September 21, 1937) and The Lord of the Rings.

  3. Errantry - Wikipedia

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    Errantry" is a three-page poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, first published in The Oxford Magazine in 1933. [T 1] It was included in revised and extended form in Tolkien's 1962 collection of short poems, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. Donald Swann set the poem to music in his 1967 song cycle, The Road Goes Ever On.

  4. Song of Eärendil - Wikipedia

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    The longest poem in The Lord of the Rings is the "Song of Eärendil", also called Eärendillinwë in a different version. [1] This poem has an extraordinarily complex history. [2] Long before writing The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien wrote a poem he called "Errantry", probably in the early 1930s, published in The Oxford Magazine on 9

  5. List of kennings - Wikipedia

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    Literally feller of the life webs (fjörnets) of the gods of the flight-edges, i.e. slayer of giants, life webs (fjörnets) is a kenning in its own right since it refers directly to the operations of the Norns in severing lives, flight-edges (flugstalla) being the high and dangerous places inhabited by eagles and hawks, i.e. the icy mountains ...

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Oxonmoot - Wikipedia

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    Oxonmoot is a conference and fan convention organized by The Tolkien Society devoted to celebrate and study the life and works of J. R. R. Tolkien. It takes place every year in Oxford, England, around 22 September, the date of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins's birthdays, also known as Hobbit Day. [1]

  9. Understanding The Lord of the Rings - Wikipedia

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    The verses range from simple Hobbit poetry to the cheerful singing of Tom Bombadil and the musical Elvish poems full of metrical and other devices. Charles Moorman "The Shire, Mordor, and Minas Tirith" yes--Argues that the single most powerful influence on Tolkien is Norse mythology and saga, including monsters, battles, and landscapes. Burton ...