Songs and Verses
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Songs and Verses
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[edit] From the Books
[edit] The Hobbit
[edit] The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Road Goes Ever On - a.k.a. The Old Walking song
- Verse of the Rings - First Line: Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky
- A Walking Song - First Line: Upon the hearth the fire is red
- Elven Hymn to Elbereth - First Line: Snow-white! Snow-white! O Lady clear!
- A Drinking Song - First Line: Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go
- The Bath Song - First Line: Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
- Farewell Song of Merry and Pippin - First Line: Farewell we call to hearth and hall!
- Song in the Woods - First Line: O! Wanderers in the shadowed land
- Tom Bombadil's Songs - First Line: Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo
- note- as in The Lord of the Rings songs index, all Tom Bombadil's songs are treated as a continuation of the first one
- Wight's Chant - First Line: Cold be hand and heart and bone
- The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late - First Line: There is an inn, a merry old inn
- All that is Gold Does Not Glitter
- The Fall of Gil-galad - First Line: Gil-galad was an Elven-king
- Song of Beren and Lúthien - First Line: The leaves were long, the grass was green
- Sam's Rhyme of the Troll - First Line: Troll sat alone on his seat of stone
- Song of Eärendil - First Line: Eärendil was a mariner
- Warning of Winter - First Line: When winter first begins to bite
- Seek for the Sword that was broken
- Song of Nimrodel - First Line: An Elven-maid there was of old
- Frodo's Lament for Gandalf - First Line: When evening in the Shire was grey
- Song of Durin - First Line: The world was young, the mountains green
[edit] The Two Towers
- The Long List of the Ents - First Line: Learn now the lore of Living Creatures!
- The Ent and the Entwife - First Line: When spring unfolds the beechen leaf, and sap is in the bough
- Bregalad's Song - First Line: O Orofarnë, Lassemista, Carnimírië!
- The Ents' Marching Song - First Line: We come, we come with roll of drum:
- Lament for the Rohirrim - First Line: Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?
- Gandalf's Song of Lórien - First Line: In Dwimordene, in Lórien
- Call-to-Arms of the Rohirrim - First Line: Arise now, arise, Riders of Théoden!
- Galadriel's Messages - First Line: Where now are the Dúnedain, Elessar, Elessar?
- A Rhyme of Lore - Tall ships and tall kings
- Oliphaunt - First Line: Grey as a mouse
[edit] The Return of the King
- Malbeth the Seer's Words - First Line: Over the land there lies a long shadow
- Athelas - First Line: When the black breath blows
[edit] From the Movies
[edit] The Fellowship of the Ring
- The Road Goes Ever On
- A Drinking Song - First Line: To heal my heart and drown my woe
- The Bath Song - First Line: Sweet is the sound of the falling rain
- Song of Beren and Lúthien - The song Aragorn sings in the Midgewater Marshes may be an elvish version of this song
- Frodo's Lament for Gandalf - First Line: The finest rockets ever seen:
[edit] The Two Towers
- Bregalad's Song - First Line: O rowan mine, I saw you shine upon a summer's day
- The Ent and the Entwife - First Line: Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold
- Wight's Chant - First Line: Cold be hand and heart and bone
- Gollum's Song
[edit] The Return of the King
- The Green Dragon (song) - First Line: Oh, you can search far and wide
- All that is Gold Does Not Glitter - First Line: From the ashes a fire shall be woken
- A Walking Song - a.k.a. "The Edge of Night" - First Line: Home is behind, the world ahead
- A Shadow Lies Between Us - First Line: With a sigh
- Into the West - First Line: Lay down
