{"id":117692,"date":"2024-03-14T00:23:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T05:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=117692"},"modified":"2024-03-14T00:23:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T05:23:59","slug":"new-tolkien-book-coming-september-2024-the-collected-poems-of-j-r-r-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2024\/03\/14\/117692-new-tolkien-book-coming-september-2024-the-collected-poems-of-j-r-r-tolkien\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tolkien book coming September 2024: “The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Publisher HarperCollins is set to release a new Tolkien book, The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien<\/em>, this September. The three-volume book will gather together much of J.R.R. Tolkien’s published verse, as well as somewhere in the vicinity of 77 (see below for the editors’ explanation about the inherent difficulties of being precise) previously unreleased poems from his archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editors Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond note that it\u2019s a Collected Poems<\/strong> work, not a Complete Poems<\/strong> work, due to “economies of production”. However, the book will still include “most of the verses Tolkien is known to have written, and for most of these, multiple versions which show their evolution.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing on their blog<\/a>, the pair explain that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are at least 240 discrete poems, depending on how one distinguishes titles and versions, presented in 195 entries and five appendices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When possible, we have used manuscripts and typescripts in the Bodleian Library, at Marquette University, and at the University of Leeds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have chosen not to include all of the one hundred or so poems contained in The Hobbit<\/em> and The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, but have made a representative selection \u2013 surely, no one who reads the Collected Poems<\/em> will not already have at least one copy of Tolkien\u2019s two most popular works.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

They further explain<\/a> that “discrete poems” depends on one’s definition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of the poems morph in their evolution so much that one could either count a work as a single entity in a variety of forms, or as a variety of separate poems that are closely related. Hence our vagueness about the number: we didn’t want to overhype it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s a similar issue with counting which poems have been published and which haven’t. The best we can say is that among the poems we include, 77 have not been published before in any form, or only a few lines from them have appeared, e.g. in Carpenter’s biography.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

TolkienGateway has a list of known yet unpublished works<\/a> if you’re curious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The HarperCollins press release notes that poetry was the first way in which Tolkien expressed himself creatively and through it the seeds of his literary ambition would be sown. The character E\u00e4rendil emerged from one of his earliest poems The Voyage of \u00c9arendel the Evening Star<\/em> in 1914. And from E\u00e4rendil we have world of The Silmarillion, and subsequently The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, each which is enriched with many poems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charged, at first, by Christopher Tolkien to review only his early poems, Hammond and Scull soon saw the benefits of examining his entire poetic opus across six decades and showing its evolution with comments in the manner of Christopher\u2019s magisterial History of Middle-earth<\/em> series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collected Poems will provide the stories behind, and analysis of, each poem, as well as revealing the extraordinary amount of work that Tolkien invested in them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not long before his death, Hammond and Scull were able to send Christopher Tolkien a portion of the book, which he praised as \u201cremarkable and immensely desirable”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They state that the 1,500-plus-page book (the numbers listed on Amazon\u2019s description are apparently outdated and not correct) will also include “a long introduction to Tolkien as a poet, a brief chronology of his poetry, and a glossary of archaic, unusual, or unfamiliar words he used in his verse.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Hammond and Scull, there are currently no plans for a deluxe edition; the aim is for an elegant trade release (hardcover). As yet there is no announcement of a U.S. edition. It looks as though like Amazon will carry a (Kindle) e-book as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien<\/em> will be released on September 12.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sources: Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond<\/a> blog, Tolkien Collector’s Guide<\/a>, Amazon UK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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