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J.R.R. Tolkien - Poems
A collection of Tolkien poems appeared in his works, collected and published in PDF Format by PoemHunter website.
*The cover image of the book is not original.
*The cover image of the book is not original.
49 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2004
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J.R.R. Tolkien
792 books77.6k followersJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien: writer, artist, scholar, linguist. Known to millions around the world as the author of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien spent most of his life teaching at the University of Oxford where he was a distinguished academic in the fields of Old and Middle English and Old Norse. His creativity, confined to his spare time, found its outlet in fantasy works, stories for children, poetry, illustration and invented languages and alphabets.
Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss, courage and betrayal, humility and pride – giving his books a wide and enduring appeal.
Tolkien was an accomplished amateur artist who painted for pleasure and relaxation. He excelled at landscapes and often drew inspiration from his own stories. He illustrated many scenes from The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, sometimes drawing or painting as he was writing in order to visualize the imagined scene more clearly.
Tolkien was a professor at the Universities of Leeds and Oxford for almost forty years, teaching Old and Middle English, as well as Old Norse and Gothic. His illuminating lectures on works such as the Old English epic poem, Beowulf, illustrate his deep knowledge of ancient languages and at the same time provide new insights into peoples and legends from a remote past.
Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in 1892 to English parents. He came to England aged three and was brought up in and around Birmingham. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 1915 and saw active service in France during the First World War before being invalided home. After the war he pursued an academic career teaching Old and Middle English. Alongside his professional work, he invented his own languages and began to create what he called a mythology for England; it was this ‘legendarium’ that he would work on throughout his life. But his literary work did not start and end with Middle-earth, he also wrote poetry, children’s stories and fairy tales for adults. He died in 1973 and is buried in Oxford where he spent most of his adult life.
Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss, courage and betrayal, humility and pride – giving his books a wide and enduring appeal.
Tolkien was an accomplished amateur artist who painted for pleasure and relaxation. He excelled at landscapes and often drew inspiration from his own stories. He illustrated many scenes from The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, sometimes drawing or painting as he was writing in order to visualize the imagined scene more clearly.
Tolkien was a professor at the Universities of Leeds and Oxford for almost forty years, teaching Old and Middle English, as well as Old Norse and Gothic. His illuminating lectures on works such as the Old English epic poem, Beowulf, illustrate his deep knowledge of ancient languages and at the same time provide new insights into peoples and legends from a remote past.
Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in 1892 to English parents. He came to England aged three and was brought up in and around Birmingham. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 1915 and saw active service in France during the First World War before being invalided home. After the war he pursued an academic career teaching Old and Middle English. Alongside his professional work, he invented his own languages and began to create what he called a mythology for England; it was this ‘legendarium’ that he would work on throughout his life. But his literary work did not start and end with Middle-earth, he also wrote poetry, children’s stories and fairy tales for adults. He died in 1973 and is buried in Oxford where he spent most of his adult life.
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October 17, 2023
La mayoría me encantaron, aunque algunas palabras tenía que buscar.
4,5 ☆
4,5 ☆
July 19, 2021
I had this box containing the collection of little gems in my bookcase for a long time, but somehow never came around to read them. I thought it would contain some poems from Lord of the Rings, but sadly it didn't. To my even bigger surprise did the first two volumes contain exactly the same poems from the little book I just read, Poems from The Hobbit. That was totally unexpected as that little book almost seemed as tiny as each of these books. The third volume of this collection contains poems from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and The Stone Troll. These didn't speak to me as much as those from The Hobbit, but well, I just love The Hobbit so that might not be a fair comparison.
December 30, 2018
3 piccoli libricini che si leggono in un soffio e che contengono alcune delle poesie e delle filastrocche de lo hobbit e de il signore degli anelli. Davvero piacevole ritrovarle in questi piccoli volumi. Ottime da leggere ai bimbi per introdurli nel fantastico mondo tolkeniano.
May 14, 2016
carine.
May 14, 2017
Ho sempre preferito la prosa del Professore, inoltre la traduzione non è - per ovvi motivi - in grado di rendere la forza espressiva dell'originale in inglese.
I disegni compensano però ampiamente
I disegni compensano però ampiamente
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