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JRR Tolkien

JRR Tolkien

In September 2024, The Collected Poems of JRR Tolkien was published. The 3 volume collections gathers collects most of the poetry that Tolkien is known to have written.

The book contains around 240 poems with already published in The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings included.

From the publisher:

“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 hardback 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…”

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