Bilbo's Last Song
short fiction 1974 Middle-earth
Record
| First published | 1974 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | short fiction |
| Canon status | |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780375823732 |
Synopsis
Bilbo's Last Song (at the Grey Havens) is a short poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, written as a coda to The Lord of the Rings and sung by Bilbo Baggins as he prepares to leave Middle-earth from the Grey Havens. Rooted in an earlier Old Norse composition from the 1920s, it was first published in Dutch translation in 1973 and later issued in English, including as an illustrated picture book.
Where it sits
- Universe: Middle-earth
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Notes
- Single in-universe poem (Bilbo's farewell at the Grey Havens). First published 1974 in poster form (US Houghton Mifflin April; UK Allen & Unwin September, ill. Pauline Baynes); Baynes picture-book edition 1990 (Unwin Hyman/Houghton Mifflin).
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within Middle-earth (standalone work): position 7 of 28: previous The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle (1967) · next The Silmarillion (1977)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilbo%27s_Last_Song
- https://tolkienlibrary.com/booksbytolkien/bilbolastsong/description.php
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilbo's_Last_Song
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