THE COLLECTED POEMS OF J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Събрани стихове на Дж. Р. Р. Толкин
- от Дж. Р. Р. Толкин
[под редакцията на] Уейн Г. Хамънд и Кристина Скъл
17.9.2024 г.
Първата по рода си публикация на събраните стихове на Дж. Р. Р. Толкин, обхващаща почти седем десетилетия от живота на автора и представена в елегантен комплект от три тома с твърди корици.
Дж. Р. Р. Толкин се е стремял да бъде поет на първо място и поезията е била част от творческия му живот не по-малко от неговата проза, езици и рисунки. Въпреки че читателите на Толкин знаят, че той е писал поезия, макар и само от стиховете в „Хобит“ и „Властелинът на пръстените“, качествата й остават недооценени. В рамките на неговите по-големи художествени произведения стихотворенията помагат не само за развитие на историята, но и да се улови нейния дух. Те изразяват любовта му към природата и сезоните, към пейзажа и музиката и към словото. Те предават неговия хумор и възхитата от света.
Най-ранното произведение в тази колекция, написано за неговата любима, е от 1910 г., когато Толкин е едва осемнадесет годишен. Някои стихотворения от оксфордските му години пък са много сложни или ексцентрични. Написаните по време на Първата световна война, докато служи във Франция, са посветени не на окопите и сраженията, а на живота, загубата, вярата и приятелството, копнежа му по Англия и чакащата го там съпруга. В началото на 1914 г. започват да се появяват елементи от неговия легендариум „Силмарилион“ и „темата за Средната земя“ ще вдъхнови голяма част от стиховете на Толкин до края на живота му.
Събраните стихове на Дж. Р. Р. Толкин представят почти 200 произведения в три тома, в т.ч. над 60, които не са виждали бял свят досега. Към стиховете са умело вплетени анотации от Кристина Скъл и Уейн Г. Хамънд, които ги поставят в контекста на живота и творчеството на Толкин и създават най-пълния сборник на стиховете му, издаван някога.
Съдържание
VOLUME ONE
Introduction xiii
Chronology lxix
1 Morning · Morning Song 3
2 The Dale-Lands 8
3 Evening · Completorium 11
4 Wood-Sunshine 14
5 The Sirens Feast · The Sirens 17
6 The Battle of the Eastern Field 19
7 A Fragment of an Epic 28
8 The New Lemminkainen 38
9 Lemminkainen Goeth to the Ford of Oxen 49
10 From Iffley · Valedictory 54
11 Darkness on the Road 57
12 Sunset in a Town 59
13 The Grimness of the Sea · The Tides · Sea Chant 61
of an Elder Day · Sea-Song of an Elder Day ·
The Horns of Ylmir
14 Outside 79
15 Magna Dei Gloria 83
16 The Voyage of Éarendel the Evening Star · 86
The Last Voyage of Éarendel · Éala! Éarendel
Engla Beorhtast!
17 The Story of Kullervo 98
18 The Minstrel Renounces the Song · The Lay of 102
Earendel · The Bidding of the Minstrel
19 The Mermaid’s Flute 108
20 Dark · Copernicus v. Ptolemy · 114
Copernicus and Ptolemy
21 Ferrum et Sanguis 120
22 The Sparrow’s Morning Chirp to a Lazy Mortal · 123
Bilink, Bilink! · Sparrow Song
23 As Two Fair Trees 128
24 Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon: 131
An East Anglian Phantasy · A Faërie: Why the
Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon ·
The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon
25 Courage Speaks to a Child of Earth · The Two Riders 148
26 May Day in a Backward Year · May-Day 152
27 Goblin Feet 159
28 You and Me and the Cottage of Lost Play · 166
The Little House of Lost Play: Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva
29 Tinfang Warble 174
30 Kôr: In a City Lost and Dead · The City of the Gods 177
31 The Shores of Faery 181
32 Princess Nî · The Princess Ní · Princess Mee 188
33 The Happy Mariners · Tha Eadigan Saelidan: 194
The Happy Mariners
34 The Trumpet of Faery · The Trumpets of Faery · 205
The Horns of the Host of Doriath
35 Thoughts on Parade · The Swallow and the 216
Traveller on the Plains
36 Empty Chapel 225
37 The Pines of Aryador · A Song of Aryador 228
38 Dark Are the Clouds about the North 235
39 The Lonely Harebell · Elfalone 242
40 Kortirion among the Trees · The Trees of Kortirion 251
41 Narqelion 295
42 The Pool of the Dead Year · The Pool of Forgetfulness 298
43 Over Old Hills and Far Away 309
44 The Wanderer’s Allegiance · The Sorrowful City · 317
The Town of Dreams and the City of Present Sorrow ·
Wínsele Wéste, Windge Reste Réte Berofene ·
The Song of Eriol
45 Habbanan beneath the Stars · Eruman beneath 332
the Stars
46 Tol Eressea · For England: The Lonely Isle · 337
The Lonely Isle
47 Two-Lieut 342
48 A Dream of Coming Home · A Memory of July 344
in England · July · Two Eves in Tavrobel ·
An Evening in Tavrobel · Once upon a Time
49 The Thatch of Poppies 357
50 The Forest Walker 362
51 O Lady Mother Throned amid the Stars · 370
Consolatrix Afflictorum · Stella Vespertina ·
Mother! O Lady Throned beyond the Stars
52 To Early Morning Tea · An Ode Inspired by 374
Intimations of the Approach of Early Morning Tea
53 G.B.S. 379
54 Ye Laggard Woodlands 391
55 Companions of the Rose 396
56 The Grey Bridge of Tavrobel 399
57 I Stood upon an Empty Shore 402
58 Build Me a Grave beside the Sea · 404
The Brothers-in-Arms
59 A Rime for My Boy 412
60 Nursery Rhymes Undone, or Their Scandalous 414
Secret Unlocked · The Cat and the Fiddle · They Say
There’s a Little Crooked Inn · There Is an Inn, a Merry
Old Inn · The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late
61 A Rhyme Royal upon Easter Morning 429
62 The Ruined Enchanter 434
63 The Motor-cyclists 446
VOLUME TWO
64 Light as Leaf on Lind · As Light as Leaf 449
on Lindentree · The Tale of Tinúviel
65 Nieninqe · Nieninque 468
66 The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin 472
67 The Golden Dragon · Túrin Son of Húrin 485
and Glórund the Dragon · The Children of Húrin
(alliterative) · Winter Comes to Nargothrond
68 The Clerkes Compleinte 497
69 Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden · The Hoard 504
70 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 521
71 Enigmata Saxonica Nuper Inventa Duo 527
72 Úþwita Sceal Ealdgesægenum 530
73 Moonshine 532
74 The Nameless Land · The Song of Ælfwine 537
75 Ave atque Vale · Lines Composed on an Evening · 557
Lines Composed in a Village Inn
76 From One to Five 562
77 Ruddoc Hana 567
78 Ides Ælfscýne 572
79 Bagmē Blōma 576
80 Éadig Béo Þu 580
81 Ofer Wídne Gársecg 585
82 I Sat upon a Bench 592
83 Pēro & Pōdex · The Root of the Boot · Sam’s Song · 594
The Stone Troll
84 Frenchmen Froth 609
85 Lit’ and Lang’ 613
86 All Hail! 616
87 The Lion Is Loud and Proud 619
88 The Song of Beewolf Son of Echgethew 620
89 The Owl and the Nightingale 637
90 Pearl 645
91 Gawain’s Leave-Taking 649
92 Lay of Leithian 652
93 Shadowland 664
94 Knocking at the Door · The Mewlips 668
95 Fastitocalon 675
96 Iumbo, or Ye Kinde of ye Oliphaunt 681
97 Syx Mynet 686
98 Lá, Húru 691
99 Natura Apis: Morali Ricardi Eremite 694
100 The Hills Are Old 698
101 Natura Formice (et Significacio Simul) 700
102 A Song of Bimble Bay 707
103 The Progress of Bimble · Progress in Bimble Town 712
104 Glip 721
105 The Bumpus · William and the Bumpus · 723
Perry-the-Winkle
106 Poor Old Grabbler · Old Grabbler 740
107 The Dragon’s Visit 745
108 Chip the Glasses and Crack the Plates! 765
109 Far over the Misty Mountains Cold 769
110 The Wind Was on the Withered Heath 774
111 Down the Swift Dark Stream You Go 778
112 Under the Mountain Dark and Tall 782
113 O Where Are You Going · The Dragon Is Withered 785
114 Sing All Ye Joyful, Now Sing All Together · 789
Elvish Song in Rivendell
115 Roads Go Ever Ever On · 793
The Road Goes Ever On and On
116 The Corrigan · The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun 801
117 The Lay of Beowulf 815
118 Hengest 822
119 The Derelicts 824
120 Brydleoþ 827
121 The History of Tom Bombadil · 834
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
122 Monday Morning 857
123 Oilima Markirya · The Last Ship · The Last Ark 863
124 Earendel · Earendel at the Helm 874
125 Dir Avosaith a Gwaew Hinar 878
126 The Last of the Old Gods 881
127 Vestr um Haf · Bilbo’s Last Song (at the Grey Havens) 885
128 Errantry · Eärendil Was a Mariner · 890
The Short Lay of Earendel: Earendillínwë
129 The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son 950
VOLUME THREE
130 The Children of Húrin (rhyming couplets) 977
131 The New Lay of the Völsungs · The New Lay 984
of Gudrún
132 The Prophecy of the Sibyl 1002
133 Bleak Heave the Billows 1006
134 Looney · The Sea-Bell 1008
135 Quare Fremunt Omnes Gentes 1034
136 Mythopoeia 1036
137 The Merryman 1049
138 A Cherry with No Stone 1051
139 Doworst · Visio de Doworst 1054
140 The Fall of Arthur 1073
141 Firiel · The Last Ship 1079
142 The Wanderers 1099
143 When Little Louis Came To Stay 1112
144 Monað Modes Lust mid Mereflode 1115
145 Ilu Ilúvatar en Káre Eldain a Firimoin 1118
146 King Sheave 1121
147 The Shadow Man · Shadow-Bride 1129
148 Noel 1132
149 Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the Sky 1134
150 Upon the Hearth the Fire Is Red 1140
151 Snow-White! Snow-White! O Lady Clear! 1148
152 Sing Hey! for the Bath at Close of Day 1156
153 Farewell We Call to Hearth and Hall 1159
154 Hey! Come Merry Dol! · Hop Along, 1162
My Little Friends
155 Cold Be Hand and Heart and Bone 1166
156 All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter 1169
157 Gil-galad Was an Elven-king 1174
158 I Sit beside the Fire and Think 1177
159 The World Was Young, the Mountains Green 1181
160 The Song of Legolas · An Elven-maid 1186
There Was of Old
161 I Sang of Leaves · Galadriel’s Song 1196
162 Ai! Laurië Lantar Lassi Súrinen · Namárië 1202
163 Lament of Denethor for Boromir · 1205
Through Rohan over Fen and Field
164 In the Willow-Meads of Tasarinan I Walked 1213
in the Spring
165 When Spring Unfolds the Beechen Leaf 1216
166 Where Now the Horse and the Rider? 1223
167 Grey as a Mouse · Oliphaunt 1227
168 Out of the Mountain Shall They Come 1230
Their Tryst Keeping · Over the Land
There Lies a Long Shadow
169 From Dark Dunharrow in the Dim Morning 1235
170 We Heard of the Horns in the Hills Ringing 1239
171 I Sit upon the Stones Alone · In Western Lands 1245
beneath the Sun
172 Rhyme 1250
173 Sir Orfeo 1256
174 A Closed Letter to Andrea Charicoryides 1262
175 The Death of St Brendan · Imram 1265
176 Be He Foe or Friend, Be He Foul or Clean 1282
177 Scatha the Worm 1284
178 Wilt Thou Learn the Lore 1287
179 Cat 1289
180 You Walk on Grass 1291
181 The Wind So Whirled a Weathercock 1293
182 Yénion Yukainen Nunn’ ar Anduine Lútie Loar! · 1296
Loä Yukainen avar Anduinë Sí Valútier
183 To the University of Oxford 1299
184 Gardeners’ Secrets · Utch! A Gardener’s Secrets 1302
185 The Complaint of Mîm the Dwarf 1304
186 Ho! Tom Bombadil · The Fliting of Tom Bombadil · 1310
Bombadil Goes Boating
187 Rosalind Ramage 1331
188 Three Children 1335
189 Where the Riming Rune-Tree Blows 1342
190 Though All Things Fail and Come to Naught 1346
191 No Longer Fear Champagne 1352
192 My Heart Is Not in This Land Where I Live 1353
193 As You Must Admit 1355
194 ‘At Last the Time Has Come,’ He Said 1358
195 For W.H.A. 1361
Appendix I. Limericks and Clerihews 1365
Appendix II. Latin Adages 1371
Appendix III. Poem Lists 1377
Appendix IV. Word Lists 1391
Appendix V. Bealuwérig 1403
Glossary 1411
Bibliography 1449
Index 1473
Illustrations
Morning (no. 1, text A) page 2
Over Old Hills and Far Away (no. 43, text C) plate 1
Kortirion among the Trees (no. 40, text A) plate 2
The Song of Ælfwinë (no. 74, fine copy) plate 3
The Bumpus (no. 105, text A) plate 4
The Sea-Bell (no. 134, text G) plate 5
List of poems for publication (App. III, text D) plate 6



