The
Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien: Three-Volume Box Set Hardcover –
September 17, 2024
World
first publication of the collected poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, spanning almost
seven decades of the author’s life and presented in an elegant three-volume
hardcover boxed set.
J.R.R.
Tolkien aspired to be a poet in the first instance, and poetry was part of his
creative life no less than his prose, his languages, and his art. Although
Tolkien’s readers are aware that he wrote poetry, if only from verses in The
Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, its extent is not well
known, and its qualities are underappreciated. Within his larger works of
fiction, poems help to establish character and place as well as further the
story; as individual works, they delight with words and rhyme. They express his
love of nature and the seasons, of landscape and music, and of words. They
convey his humor and his sense of wonder.
The
earliest work in this collection, written for his beloved, is dated to 1910,
when Tolkien was eighteen. More poems would follow during his years at Oxford,
some of them very elaborate and eccentric. Those he composed during the First
World War, in which he served in France, tend to be concerned not with trenches
and battle, but with life, loss, faith, and friendship, his longing for England
and the wife he left behind. Beginning in 1914, elements of his legendarium,
“The Silmarillion,” began to appear, and the “Matter of Middle-earth” would
inspire much of Tolkien’s verse for the rest of his life.
Within The
Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien almost 200 works are presented
across three volumes, including more than 60 that have never before been seen.
The poems are deftly woven together with commentary and notes by world-renowned
Tolkien scholars Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond, placing them in the
context of Tolkien’s life and literary accomplishments and creating a poetical
biography that is a unique and revealing celebration of J.R.R. Tolkien. -
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