Concerning … ‘The Hoard’

Concerning ... 'The Hoard' is the title of a manuscript by J.R.R. Tolkien, enclosed by him in a 1964 letter to Eileen Elgar (together with Kinship of the Half-elven).

The manuscript, consisting of nine pages, gives an outline of 'The Silmarillion' by relating his poem The Hoard to this still unpublished work. An extract from the manuscript appeared in Sotheby's English Literature and English History 6-7 December 1984, and was reproduced in Beyond Bree May 1985.

Writing about the manuscript, Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull have commented that:

In 16 July 2022, the manuscript was sold in auction along with the manuscript "Kinship of the Half-elven" and the letter to Eileen Elgar. On 12 September 2025, the portion of the manuscript relating to The Hoard was partially published in commentary to entry 69 in The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien.