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Literary BiographiesTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chronology
- 1 Morning · Morning Song
- 2 The Dale-Lands
- 3 Evening · Completorium
- 4 Wood-Sunshine
- 5 The Sirens Feast · The Sirens
- 6 The Battle of the Eastern Field
- 7 A Fragment of an Epic
- 8 The New Lemminkainen
- 9 Lemminkainen Goeth to the Ford of Oxen
- 10 From Iffley · Valedictory
- 11 Darkness on the Road
- 12 Sunset in a Town
- 13 The Grimness of the Sea · The Tides · Sea Chant of an Elder Day · Sea-Song of an Elder Day · The Horns of Ylmir
- 14 Outside
- 15 Magna Dei Gloria
- 16 The Voyage of Éarendel the Evening Star · The Last Voyage of Éarendel · Éala! Éarendel Engla Beorhtast!
- 17 The Story of Kullervo
- 18 The Minstrel Renounces the Song · The Lay of Earendel · The Bidding of the Minstrel
- 19 The Mermaid’s Flute
- 20 Dark · Copernicus v. Ptolemy · Copernicus and Ptolemy
- 21 Ferrum et Sanguis
- 22 The Sparrow’s Morning Chirp to a Lazy Mortal · Bilink, Bilink! · Sparrow Song
- 23 As Two Fair Trees
- 24 Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon: An East Anglian Phantasy · A Faërie: Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon · The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon
- 25 Courage Speaks to a Child of Earth · The Two Riders
- 26 May Day in a Backward Year · May-Day
- 27 Goblin Feet
- 28 You and Me and the Cottage of Lost Play · The Little House of Lost Play: Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva
- 29 Tinfang Warble
- 30 Kôr: In a City Lost and Dead · The City of the Gods
- 31 The Shores of Faery
- 32 Princess Nî · The Princess Ní · Princess Mee
- 33 The Happy Mariners · Tha Eadigan Saelidan: The Happy Mariners
- 34 The Trumpet of Faery · The Trumpets of Faery · The Horns of the Host of Doriath
- 35 Thoughts on Parade · The Swallow and the Traveller on the Plains
- 36 Empty Chapel
- 37 The Pines of Aryador · A Song of Aryador
- 38 Dark Are the Clouds about the North
- 39 The Lonely Harebell · Elfalone
- 40 Kortirion among the Trees · The Trees of Kortirion
- 41 Narqelion
- 42 The Pool of the Dead Year · The Pool of Forgetfulness
- 43 Over Old Hills and Far Away
- 44 The Wanderer’s Allegiance · The Sorrowful City · The Town of Dreams and the City of Present Sorrow · Wínsele Wéste, Windge Reste Réte Berofene · The Song of Eriol
- 45 Habbanan beneath the Stars · Eruman beneath the Stars
- 46 Tol Eressea · For England: The Lonely Isle · The Lonely Isle
- 47 Two-Lieut
- 48 A Dream of Coming Home · A Memory of July in England · July · Two Eves in Tavrobel · An Evening in Tavrobel · Once upon a Time
- 49 The Thatch of Poppies
- 50 The Forest Walker
- 51 O Lady Mother Throned amid the Stars · Consolatrix Afflictorum · Stella Vespertina · Mother! O Lady Throned beyond the Stars
- 52 To Early Morning Tea · An Ode Inspired by Intimations of the Approach of Early Morning Tea
- 53 G.B.S.
- 54 Ye Laggard Woodlands
- 55 Companions of the Rose
- 56 The Grey Bridge of Tavrobel
- 57 I Stood upon an Empty Shore
- 58 Build Me a Grave beside the Sea · The Brothers-in-Arms
- 59 A Rime for My Boy
- 60 Nursery Rhymes Undone, or Their Scandalous Secret Unlocked · The Cat and the Fiddle · They Say There’s a Little Crooked Inn · There Is an Inn, a Merry Old Inn · The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late
- 61 A Rhyme Royal upon Easter Morning
- 62 The Ruined Enchanter
- 63 The Motor-cyclists
- 64 Light as Leaf on Lind · As Light as Leaf on Lindentree ·The Tale of Tinúviel
- 65 Nieninqe · Nieninque
- 66 The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin
- 67 The Golden Dragon · Túrin Son of Húrin and Glórund the Dragon · The Children of Húrin (alliterative) · Winter Comes to Nargothrond
- 68 The Clerkes Compleinte
- 69 Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden · The Hoard
- 70 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- 71 Enigmata Saxonica Nuper Inventa Duo
- 72 Úþwita Sceal Ealdgesægenum
- 73 Moonshine
- 74 The Nameless Land · The Song of Ælfwine
- 75 Ave atque Vale · Lines Composed on an Evening · Lines Composed in a Village Inn
- 76 From One to Five
- 77 Ruddoc Hana
- 78 Ides Ælfscýne
- 79 Bagmē Blōma
- 80 Éadig Béo Þu
- 81 Ofer Wídne Gársecg
- 82 I Sat upon a Bench
- 83 Pēro & Pōdex · The Root of the Boot · Sam’s Song · The Stone Troll
- 84 Frenchmen Froth
- 85 Lit’ and Lang’
- 86 All Hail!
- 87 The Lion Is Loud and Proud
- 88 The Song of Beewolf Son of Echgethew
- 89 The Owl and the Nightingale
- 90 Pearl
- 91 Gawain’s Leave-Taking
- 92 Lay of Leithian
- 93 Shadowland
- 94 Knocking at the Door · The Mewlips
- 95 Fastitocalon
- 96 Iumbo, or Ye Kinde of ye Oliphaunt
- 97 Syx Mynet
- 98 Lá, Húru
- 99 Natura Apis: Morali Ricardi Eremite
- 100 The Hills Are Old
- 101 Natura Formice (et Significacio Simul)
- 102 A Song of Bimble Bay
- 103 The Progress of Bimble · Progress in Bimble Town
- 104 Glip
- 105 The Bumpus · William and the Bumpus · Perry-the-Winkle
- 106 Poor Old Grabbler · Old Grabbler
- 107 The Dragon’s Visit
- 108 Chip the Glasses and Crack the Plates!
- 109 Far over the Misty Mountains Cold
- 110 The Wind Was on the Withered Heath
- 111 Down the Swift Dark Stream You Go
- 112 Under the Mountain Dark and Tall
- 113 O Where Are You Going · The Dragon Is Withered
- 114 Sing All Ye Joyful, Now Sing All Together · Elvish Song in Rivendell
- 115 Roads Go Ever Ever On · The Road Goes Ever On and On
- 116 The Corrigan · The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun
- 117 The Lay of Beowulf
- 118 Hengest
- 119 The Derelicts
- 120 Brydleoþ
- 121 The History of Tom Bombadil · The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
- 122 Monday Morning
- 123 Oilima Markirya · The Last Ship · The Last Ark
- 124 Earendel · Earendel at the Helm
- 125 Dir Avosaith a Gwaew Hinar
- 126 The Last of the Old Gods
- 127 Vestr um Haf · Bilbo’s Last Song (at the Grey Havens)
- 128 Errantry · Eärendil Was a Mariner · The Short Lay of Earendel: Earendillínwë
- 129 The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son
- 130 The Children of Húrin (rhyming couplets)
- 131 The New Lay of the Völsungs · The New Lay of Gudrún
- 132 The Prophecy of the Sibyl
- 133 Bleak Heave the Billows
- 134 Looney · The Sea-Bell
- 135 Quare Fremunt Omnes Gentes
- 136 Mythopoeia
- 137 The Merryman
- 138 A Cherry with No Stone
- 139 Doworst · Visio de Doworst
- 140 The Fall of Arthur
- 141 Firiel · The Last Ship
- 142 The Wanderers
- 143 When Little Louis Came To Stay
- 144 Monað Modes Lust mid Mereflode
- 145 Ilu Ilúvatar en Káre Eldain a Firimoin
- 146 King Sheave
- 147 The Shadow Man · Shadow-Bride
- 148 Noel
- 149 Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the Sky
- 150 Upon the Hearth the Fire Is Red
- 151 Snow-White! Snow-White! O Lady Clear!
- 152 Sing Hey! for the Bath at Close of Day
- 153 Farewell We Call to Hearth and Hall
- 154 Hey! Come Merry Dol! · Hop Along, My Little Friends
- 155 Cold Be Hand and Heart and Bone
- 156 All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter
- 157 Gil-galad Was an Elven-king
- 158 I Sit beside the Fire and Think
- 159 The World Was Young, the Mountains Green
- 160 The Song of Legolas · An Elven-maid There Was of Old
- 161 I Sang of Leaves · Galadriel’s Song
- 162 Ai! Laurië Lantar Lassi Súrinen · Namárië
- 163 Lament of Denethor for Boromir · Through Rohan over Fen and Field
- 164 In the Willow-Meads of Tasarinan I Walked in the Spring
- 165 When Spring Unfolds the Beechen Leaf
- 166 Where Now the Horse and the Rider?
- 167 Grey as a Mouse · Oliphaunt
- 168 Out of the Mountain Shall They Come Their Tryst Keeping · Over the Land There Lies a Long Shadow
- 169 From Dark Dunharrow in the Dim Morning
- 170 We Heard of the Horns in the Hills Ringing
- 171 I Sit upon the Stones Alone · In Western Lands beneath the Sun
- 172 Rhyme
- 173 Sir Orfeo
- 174 A Closed Letter to Andrea Charicoryides
- 175 The Death of St Brendan · Imram
- 176 Be He Foe or Friend, Be He Foul or Clean
- 177 Scatha the Worm
- 178 Wilt Thou Learn the Lore
- 179 Cat
- 180 You Walk on Grass
- 181 The Wind So Whirled a Weathercock
- 182 Yénion Yukainen Nunn’ ar Anduine Lútie Loar! · Loä Yukainen avar Anduinë Sí Valútier
- 183 To the University of Oxford
- 184 Gardeners’ Secrets · Utch! A Gardener’s Secrets
- 185 The Complaint of Mîm the Dwarf
- 186 Ho! Tom Bombadil · The Fliting of Tom Bombadil · Bombadil Goes Boating
- 187 Rosalind Ramage
- 188 Three Children
- 189 Where the Riming Rune-Tree Blows
- 190 Though All Things Fail and Come to Naught
- 191 No Longer Fear Champagne
- 192 My Heart Is Not in This Land Where I Live
- 193 As You Must Admit
- 194 ‘At Last the Time Has Come,’ He Said
- 195 For W.H.A.
- Appendix I. Limericks and Clerihews
- Appendix II. Latin Adages
- Appendix III. Poem Lists
- Appendix IV. Word Lists
- Appendix V. Bealuwérig
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Illustrations
- Works by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Copyright
- About the Publisher