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J.R.R. Tolkien - The Man Who Started It All

Tolkien's Foreward to "Lord of the Rings"

Christopher Tolkien's Foreword to "The Silmarillion"

On this page I have listed the titles of all the songs and poems in J.R.R.Tolkien's books 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings'. The songs and poems always form an integral part to Tolkien's work, and I didn't think a web-site such as mine would be complete without them. So, if you have ever found yourself in need of any of the lyrics then this is the place to be.

They are listed below by their first line in the order they appear in the books, with chapter numbers in brackets.

 

'The Hobbit'
Chip the glasses and crack the plates(1)	Far over the misty mountains cold(1)
O! What are you doing? (3)	Clap! Snap! The black crack! (4)
Fifteen birds in five fir trees (6)	The wind was on the withered heath (7)
Old fat spider spinning in a tree! (8)	Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll (9)
The King beneath the mountains (10)	Under the mountain dark and tall (15)
The dragon is withered (19)	Sing all ye joyful! (19)
Roads go ever, ever on (19)
'The Lord of the Rings'
The Fellowship of the Ring
(Book One)
The road goes ever on and on (1)	Three rings for the Elven Kings (2)
Upon the hearth the fire is red (3)	Snow-white! Snow-white! (3)
Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go (4)	Sing Hey! For the bath at close of day (5)
Farewell we call to hearth and hall (5)	O! Wanderers in the shadowed land (6)
Hey dol! Merry dol! Ring a dong dillo! (6)	Hop along, my little friends, up the Withywindle (6)
O! Slender as a willow-wand (7)	I had an errand there (7)
Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo (7)	Cold be hand and heart and bone (8)
Get out you old wight! (8)	Wake now my merry lads (8)
Hey now! Come oy now! (8)	There is an inn, a merry-old inn (9)
All that is gold does not glitter (10)	Gil-galad was an Elven-king (11)
The leaves were long. (11)	Troll sat alone on his seat of stone (12)
(Book Two)
Earandil was a mariner (1)	A Elbereth Gilthoniel (1)
Seek for the sword that was broken (2)	When winter first begins to bite (3)
I sit beside the fire and think (3)	The world was young. (4)
An elven maid there was of old (6)	When evening in the Shire was grey (8)
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold (8)	Ai! Laurie lantar lassi surinen (8)
The Two Towers
(Book Three)
Through Rohan over fen and field (1)	Gondor between the mountains and the sea (2)
Learn now the lore of Living Creatures! (4)	In the willow-meads of Tasarinan (4)
When Spring unfolds the beechen leaf (4)	O Orofarne Lassemista, Carnimirie! (4)
We come, we come with roll of drum (4)	Where now are the Dunedain, Elessar? (5)
Where now the horse and rider? (6)	In Dwimordene, in Lorien (6)
(Book Four)
The cold hard lands (2)	Grey as a mouse (3)
The Return of the King
(Book Five)
Over land there lies a long shadow (2)	From dark Dunharrow in the dim morning (3)
Arise! Arise riders of Theoden! (5)	We heard of the horns in the hills (6)
When the black breath blows (8)	Silver flows the streams (9)
(Book Six)
In western lands beneath the Sun (1)	Long live the Halflings! (3)
To the Sea! To the Sea! (4)	Sing now ye people of the Tower (5)
Out of doubt. Out of dark,(6)	The Road goes ever on and on (6)
Still around the corner there may wait (9)