The Ruined Enchanter
1919 poem by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Ruined Enchanter is a poem written by J.R.R. Tolkien in 11 November of 1919.
First stanza
<poem style="font-style:italic; margin-left:20px;">
Long have I dwelt in Belmarye,
And fair my garden is to see.
For walls of magic ring it round,
And rooted deep in enchanted ground
There grows a dark enchanted tree.</poem>
Background
On 11 November of 1919, Tolkien wrote an unfinished poem entitled The Ruined Enchanter: A Fairy Ballad on the verso of a letter from the Ministry of Pensions.
Tolkien later removed the poem's subtitle in a later manuscript.
In September of 2024, the poem was published for the first time as entry 62 in The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Inspiration
The poem may have been inspired by a nursery rhyme dating to the mid-fifteenth century.
Referencias
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