Two JRR Tolkien Works Found in 1936 School Annual

Ari Meermans · Feb 16, 2016

From The Guardian dated February 16, 2016:

Believed to have been written while Tolkien was professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University, the poems were found in the 1936 annual of Our Lady’s School in Oxfordshire. The discovery was made when the US Tolkien scholar Wayne Hammond contacted Our Lady’s headteacher, Stephen Oliver. Hammond had found a note from Tolkien in which The Hobbit author mentioned that he had published two poems in a magazine he named as the Abingdon Chronicle.

David Brawn, Tolkien’s publisher at HarperCollins, said that some unpublished poetry had been included in the revised edition of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil in 2014, and that “there is often scope to add rare material to future revised editions”.

I'm excited about this. Yes, yes I am. I'm hoping to get to read them at some point.

ZachJPayne · Feb 16, 2016

Excellent, though my gut is telling me that Christopher's going to squat over this for as long as he can.

o.Nixie.o · Apr 3, 2016

Fantastic! I will be excited to read it... if they ever let us. haha

AW Admin · Apr 15, 2016

ZachJPayne said:
Excellent, though my gut is telling me that Christopher's going to squat over this for as long as he can.

Christopher Tolkien isn't the bottleneck; he's reasonable. It's the terms of the Trust and the lawyers that are tricky.

Two JRR Tolkien Works Found in 1936 School Annual

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