The City of the Gods

1915 poem by J.R.R. Tolkien

"Tanaqui" by J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien Scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull theorise this to be of the hill, when the poem was still titled Kôr.
"Tanaqui" by J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien Scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull theorise this to be of the hill, when the poem was still titled Kôr.

The City of the Gods is a poem written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published in Spring 1923 in the magazine The Microcosm, Vol.8 No.1. It was published earlier on 30 April 1915 as Kôr with the subtitle "In a City Lost and Dead" and can also be read within The Book of Lost Tales Part One.

Poem excerpt

A sable hill, gigantic, rampant-crowned
stands gazing out across an azure sea
under an azure sky, on whose dark ground
impearled as 'gainst a floor of porphyry
gleam marble temples white, and dazzling halls;

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