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Bilbo's Last Song

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first letter and with a unique painting of a reposing Bilbo beneath. The recto pages present roundels narrating Bilbo's journey from retirement in Rivendell to his arrival at "fields and mountains ever blest": Bilbo is seen at his desk, looking out across the ravine of the Bruinen, talking to Elrond, mounting his horse, riding through the Shire, crossing Woody End, arriving at the Far Downs, meeting CĂ­rdan and Gandalf, hugging Sam, greeting Merry and Pippin, setting sail and nearing the Undying Lands. Each roundel is framed by a unique pair of overarching trees, beneath, on and above which are a multitude of birds and beasts: a beaver, a fox, an otter, badgers, bats, frogs, hedgehogs, mice, rabbits, squirrels, stoats, toads, a blackbird, a crow, a dove, a gull, a magpie, a wader, a woodpecker, some owls and many others. At the foot of every page, both
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hardcover edition was published in 2002 by Hutchinson in the UK and by Alfred A. Knopf in the US. A large-format paperback edition was published in both the UK and the US by Red Fox Picture Books in 2012. The second and third editions of the poem omitted some of the illustrations published in the first. Translations of the poem have appeared in Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish.
206:(at the Grey Havens) which I retain. A copy of this poem was presented to Miss M. Joy Hill on 3 September 1970, and also the ownership of the copyright of this poem, with the intention that she should have the right to publish it, or to dispose of the copyright, as she might wish to do, at any time after my death. This was a free gift as a token of gratitude for her work on my behalf. J. R. R. Tolkien." 1638: 514:
Hutchinson's and Knopf's 2002 edition of the poem is broadly similar to Unwin Hyman's and Houghton Mifflin's earlier version, allocating each of Tolkien's couplets its own two-page spread and including most of Baynes's 1990 artwork. However, it omits all but one of Baynes's pictures of Bilbo at rest,
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14–18 October, while Hill was helping Tolkien to set up his new office and library, she made a discovery. "As I picked up a pile of books in my arms and put them on the shelf", she recalled in 1990, "something dropped out from between two of them. It was an exercise book: just the cover with a single
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in his autobiography. "The lyric was handed to me at Tolkien's funeral by his dedicated secretary, Joy Hill, who is a close friend and neighbour of mine in Battersea. I was stirred up that day and went off and wrote a tune for it, to be sung as a duet, although I often perform it solo... The tune is
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and with his valedictory address to the University of Oxford. " words could, ... entirely appropriately for myth, be removed from their 'Grey Havens' context and be heard as the words of a dying man: but one dying contented with his life and what he had achieved, and confident of the existence of a
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would conclude. A progress report on the writing of the book that Tolkien sent to his son Christopher on 29 November 1944 shows that the coda of his story had taken shape in his mind long before it was published in 1955: "The final scene will be the passage of Bilbo and Elrond and Galadriel through
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The fan mail that Hill brought from Allen & Unwin to Tolkien included many packages. Hill and Tolkien used to enjoy guessing what kind of presents his devotees had sent to him. "One day", she remembered, "as he cut the string on a packet, he said 'If I find this is a gold bracelet studded with
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In 1990, the poem was issued as a 32-page full colour hardcover picture-book illustrated with almost fifty of Baynes's paintings – the largest body of work that she created for any Tolkien project – by Unwin Hyman in the UK and by Houghton Mifflin in the US. A second
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art, including, for example, the dwarves' feast in Bag End and their meetings with Elrond and Thranduil, Bilbo's finding of the One Ring and his conversation with Gollum, Bilbo's and Gandalf's meeting with Beorn, Bilbo's fight with the spiders of Mirkwood and the Battle of Five Armies. Anonymous
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riding with a company of elves through an autumnal landscape, watched by a variety of woodland creatures. The text of the poem is then presented in twelve full-colour two-page spreads, each dedicated to a single couplet. The couplets are printed on the verso pages, each with a unique illuminated
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first appeared at the end of 1973, translated into Dutch by Max Schuchart for a limited edition of two thousand numbered posters that the publisher Het Spectrum distributed as corporate New Year's gifts. In April 1974, Houghton Mifflin published the poem in the US as a poster decorated with a
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and it switches her arcing trees from recto pages to verso to frame Tolkien's couplets rather than her roundels. Red Fox's large paperback edition of 2012 restores the material and design that Hutchinson and Knopf reject, but omits the endpaper painting that decorates its predecessors.
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as Bilbo, the second was omitted and the third was sung by the boy soprano Matthew Vine. An album of Oliver's music from the series included a version of the song in which Vine sang all three stanzas. Oliver's version was recorded by the Dutch Tolkien Society band
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beyond the sunset. Bilbo's verses acknowledge the ending of his day and the dimming of his eyes, bid farewell to the friends whom he will leave behind and look forward to the Lonely Star's guiding him to "west of West", "where night is quiet and sleep is rest".
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journey has further parallels in writings of Tolkien's own. The figure of the mortal who sails from the quotidian world to a paradise beyond the sea is a motif that recurs in Tolkien's poems and stories throughout his creative life. Examples are
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is going to be your bracelet.'" Tolkien formalized his gift on 28 October 1971, sending Hill an annotated typescript of the poem and a covering letter: "Dear Joy, I have appended the following note to the copy of
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judges the text of the poem to be banal and its couplets technically inept. He suggests that Tolkien would have been wiser to allow Bilbo's final poetic utterance to be the version of his song
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for its second (1978) and third (2002) editions. The latter included a CD on which Swann performed his song with William Elvin and Clive McCrombie. The song was also recorded on Swann's album
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Tolkien died on 2 September 1973, and Hill arranged for the poem to be published shortly afterwards. When she herself died in 1991, the poem's copyright was bequeathed to the
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Little is known about the poem's development. According to Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond, it began as early as the 1920s or 1930s in a composition in
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photograph of a river taken by Robert Strindberg. In September 1974, Allen & Unwin published the poem in the UK as a poster illustrated by
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3 September 1970, Hill recollected, " said: 'We've opened all the parcels and there was no gold bracelet for you. I've decided that
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Bilbo's voyage to the Undying Lands is reminiscent of several other journeys in English literature. Scull and Hammond observe that
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diamonds, it is to be yours.' Of course it wasn't, but the bracelet became a joke between us." On a later visit on
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sheet between, and on the page, a poem. asked what it was; I gave it to him, and he read it aloud. It was
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The poem comprises three stanzas, each containing four rhyming couplets. It is a dramatic lyric that the
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In 1968, aged seventy-six, Tolkien decided to retire from his house at 76 Sandfield Road, Headington,
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Stephen Oliver: Music from the BBC Radio Dramatisation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
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have travelled to Mithlond, the Grey Havens, where they have been met by the elvish shipwright
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looking down on the Grey Havens and watching Bilbo's ship sailing down the firth of Lune.
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is supposed to have composed as he contemplated his approaching death – a
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from St Benin's Church, Kilbannen. In a much reworked poem finally published in 1955 as
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that could have been, but was not, incorporated into the final chapter of
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that he recites by the fireside in his room in Rivendell near the end of
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notes at the back of the book key Baynes's paintings to the passages in
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on their way to the Grey Havens. Frodo will join them and pass over
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paintings illustrate many scenes not represented in Tolkien's own
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Index


J. R. R. Tolkien
Pauline Baynes
Smith of Wootton Major
The Father Christmas Letters
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
Pauline Baynes
Donald Swann
Stephen Oliver
Oxford
Poole
Bournemouth
Allen & Unwin
Order of the Holy Paraclete
hobbit
Bilbo Baggins
nunc dimittis
The Lord of the Rings
Frodo
Sam
Elrond
Galadriel
CĂ­rdan
Gandalf
Middle-earth
Undying Lands
Old Norse
the Shire
the Sea

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