Previously published poems by Tolkien printed or quoted, excepting those in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book (1962), were taken from the following sources:
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. Oxford Magazine (Oxford) 52, no. 13 (15 February 1934), pp. 464–5.
The Cat and the Fiddle. Yorkshire Poetry (Leeds) 2, no. 19 (October–November 1924), pp. 1–3.
Errantry. Oxford Magazine (Oxford) 52, no. 5 (9 November 1933), p. 180.
An Evening in Tavrobel. Leeds University Verse 1914–24. Comp. and ed. the English School Association. Leeds: At the Swan Press, 1924. p. 56.
Fastitocalon. Stapeldon Magazine (Exeter College, Oxford) 7, no. 40 (June 1927), pp. 123–5.
Firiel. Chronicle of the Convents of the Sacred Heart (Roehampton), no. 4 (1934), pp. 30–2.
Iumbo, or ye Kinde of ye Oliphaunt. Stapeldon Magazine (Exeter College, Oxford) 7, no. 40 (June 1927), pp. 125–7.
Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden. The Gryphon (Leeds), new series 4, no. 4 (January 1923), p. 130.
Iumonna Gold Galdre Bewunden. Oxford Magazine (Oxford) 55, no. 15 (4 March 1937), p. 473.
Knocking at the Door. Oxford Magazine (Oxford) 55, no. 13 (18 February 1937), p. 403.
Looney. Oxford Magazine (Oxford) 52, no. 9 (18 January 1934), p. 340.
Once upon a Time. Winter’s Tales for Children 1. Ed. Caroline Hillier. Illustrated by Hugh Marshall. London: Macmillan; New York: St Martin’s Press, 1965. pp. 44–5.
Princess Ní. Leeds University Verse 1914–24. Comp. and ed. the English School Association. Leeds: Swan Press, 1924. p. 58.
The Root of the Boot. Songs for the Philologists. London: Privately printed in the Department of English at University College, 1936. pp. 20–1.
The Shadow Man. The ‘Annual’ of Our Lady’s School, Abingdon, no. 12 (1936), p. 9.
Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon. A Northern Venture: Verses by Members of the Leeds University English School Association. Leeds: Swan Press, 1923. pp. 17–19.
Bombadil Goes Boating, Perry-the-Winkle, and Cat had no earlier published versions. The Bumpus, predecessor of Perry-the-Winkle, has been transcribed from a manuscript provided by Christopher Tolkien. We have also referred to manuscript and typescript versions of Knocking at the Door (later The Mewlips) furnished by Christopher Tolkien, to the Tolkien archive in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and to the Tolkien–George Allen & Unwin archive of correspondence now held by HarperCollins. When part of a quotation from the Allen & Unwin archive has been published already in Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien or The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide, we have cited the latter as well. Other works consulted include:
Anderson, Douglas A. ‘The Mystery of Lintips’. Tolkien and Fantasy (blog), 22 July 2013. http://tolkienandfantasy.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-mystery-of-lintips.html.
Beare, Rhona. ‘The Trumpets of Dawn’. Typescript of unpublished lecture.
Carpenter, Humphrey. J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977.
Christie’s. 20th Century Books and Manuscripts. Auction catalogue. London (St James’s), 2 December 2003.
Clark, Willene B. A Medieval Book of Beasts: The Second-Family Bestiary. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2006.
Coward, T.A. The Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs. 5th edn. London: Frederick Warne, 1936.
Derrick, Christopher. ‘From an Antique Land’. The Tablet, 15 December 1962, p. 1227.
Duggan, Alfred. ‘Middle Earth Verse’. Times Literary Supplement, 23 November 1962, p. 892.
Eilmann, Julian, and Allan Turner. Tolkien’s Poetry. Zurich: Walking Tree Publishers, 2013. Three of the included essays are concerned variously with Errantry, The Hoard, The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon, and The Sea-Bell.
Ekwall, Eilert. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names. 4th edn. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960.
Fisher, Jason. ‘The Origins of Tolkien’s “Errantry”’ (parts 1 and 2). Lingwë: Musings of a Fish (blog), 25 September and 1 October 2008. http://lingwe.blogspot.com/2008/09/origins-of-tolkiens-errantry-part-1.html, http://lingwe.blogspot.com/2008/10/origins-of-tolkiens-errantry-part-2.html.
Flieger, Verlyn. A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Road to Faërie. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1997.
—— Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien’s World. Rev. edn. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2002.
Gilliver, Peter M., Jeremy Marshall, and Edmund Weiner. The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Hammond, Wayne G. J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography. With the assistance of Douglas A. Anderson. Winchester: St Paul’s Bibliographies; New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 1993.
—— and Christina Scull. J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator. London: HarperCollins, 1995.
—— The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion. London: HarperCollins, 2005.
Helms, Randel. Tolkien’s World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974.
Hiley, Margaret, and Frank Weinreich, eds. Tolkien’s Shorter Works: Proceedings of the 4th Seminar of the Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft & Walking Tree Publishers Decennial Conference. Zurich: Walking Tree Publishers, 2008. Several of the included essays are concerned with poems from the Bombadil volume, especially The Sea-Bell.
Honegger, Thomas. ‘The Man in the Moon: Structural Depth in Tolkien’. In Root and Branch: Approaches towards Understanding Tolkien. Ed. Thomas Honegger. Zurich: Walking Tree Publishers, 1999. pp. 9–76.
Johnston, George Burke. ‘The Poetry of J.R.R. Tolkien’. Mankato State University Studies 2, no. 1 (February 1967), pp. 63–75.
Kocher, Paul H. Master of Middle-earth: The Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972.
MacDonald, George. At the Back of the North Wind. 1870; rpt. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1956.
MacKillop, James. Dictionary of Celtic Mythology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
O’Donaghue, Denis. Lives and Legends of Saint Brendan the Voyager. Felinfach: Llanerch Publishers, 1994. Facsimile of the edn. first published at Dublin, 1893.
Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie. The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959.
—— The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. New edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Rateliff, John D. The History of The Hobbit. London: HarperCollins, 2007. 2 vols.
—— ‘J.R.R. Tolkien: Sir Topas Revisited’. Notes and Queries 29, no. 4 (August 1982), p. 348.
—— ‘The New Arrival: Winter’s Tales for Children’. Sacnoth’s Scriptorium (blog), 13 July 2009. http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-arrival-winters-tales-for-children.html.
Scull, Christina. ‘Tom Bombadil and The Lord of the Rings’. Leaves from the Tree: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Shorter Fiction. London: Tolkien Society, 1991. pp. 73–7.
—— and Wayne G. Hammond. The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide. London: HarperCollins, 2006. 2 vols.: Chronology, Reader’s Guide.
Shippey, Tom. The Road to Middle-earth. Rev. and expanded edn. London: HarperCollins, 2005.
—— ‘The Versions of “The Hoard”’. Roots and Branches: Selected Papers on Tolkien. Zollikofen: Walking Tree Publishers, 2007. pp. 341–9.
Michael Silverman. Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Historical Documents: Recent Acquisitions. London, 1995.
Simpson, Jacqueline, and Steve Roud. A Dictionary of English Folklore. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Smith, A.H. English Place-name Elements. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956. 2 vols.
Sotheby’s. English Literature and English History. Auction catalogue. London, 6–7 December 1984.
Swank, Kris. ‘Tom Bombadil’s Last Song: Tolkien’s “Once upon a Time”’. Tolkien Studies 10 (2013), pp. 185–97.
Thwaite, Anthony. ‘Hobbitry’. The Listener, 22 November 1962, p. 831.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1962. The second printing, with revised order of poems, was also published in 1962.
—— The Annotated Hobbit. Rev. and expanded edn. Annotated by Douglas A. Anderson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
—— Beowulf and the Critics. Rev. 2nd edn. Ed. Michael D.C. Drout. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011.
—— The Book of Lost Tales, Part One. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1983.
—— Farmer Giles of Ham. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1949.
—— The J.R.R. Tolkien Audio Collection. London: HarperCollins, 2001.
——. J.R.R. Tolkien Reads and Sings His The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring. New York: Caedmon Records, 1975.
—— J.R.R. Tolkien Reads and Sings His The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers/The Return of the King. New York: Caedmon Records, 1975.
—— The Lays of Beleriand. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1985.
—— The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. London: HarperCollins, 2009.
—— Letters from Father Christmas. Ed. Baillie Tolkien. London: HarperCollins, 1999.
—— Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. Ed. Humphrey Carpenter, with the assistance of Christopher Tolkien. London: HarperCollins, 2000.
—— The Lord of the Rings. 50th anniversary edn. London: HarperCollins, 2005.
—— The Lost Road and Other Writings: Language and Legend before ‘The Lord of the Rings’. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, 1987.
—— The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1983. Includes On Fairy-Stories and A Secret Vice, etc.
—— Morgoth’s Ring: The Later Silmarillion, Part One: The Legends of Aman. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. London: HarperCollins, 1993.
—— Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien. Foreword and notes by Christopher Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1979.
—— Poems and Songs of Middle Earth. New York: Caedmon Records, 1967. Recording of readings by Tolkien from the Bombadil collection, and of the song cycle The Road Goes Ever On by Donald Swann, including Errantry.
—— Poems and Stories. Illustrated by Pauline Baynes. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1980.
—— The Qenya Alphabet. Ed. Arden R. Smith. Parma Eldalamberon 20. Mountain View, California: Parma Eldalamberon, 2012. Includes analysis of excerpts from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Errantry written in an ‘Elvish’ script.
—— The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988.
—— The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor. Ed. Carl F. Hostetter, with additional commentary by Christopher Tolkien. Vinyar Tengwar 42 (July 2001), pp. 5–34.
—— The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle. Music by Donald Swann. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967.
—— Roverandom. Ed. Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond. London: HarperCollins, 1998.
—— A Secret Vice. In The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1983. pp. 198–223. —— The Shaping of Middle-earth: The Quenta, the Ambarkanta and the Annals. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1986.
—— The Silmarillion. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977.
—— Tales from the Perilous Realm. London: HarperCollins, 1997.
—— The Treason of Isengard. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, 1989.
—— Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1980.
White, T.H. The Bestiary: A Book of Beasts. New York: Capricorn Books, 1960.