Old Grabbler

Old Grabbler is a poem by J.R.R. Tolkien part of his series Tales and Songs of Bimble Bay written around 1928. It was first published in The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien. There are two manuscripts of the poem, and the first was called Poor Old Grabbler. It is about two older residents, Mrs. Day and Grabbler, of Bimble Bay, an imaginary English seaside town. It is a somber poem that laments the degradation of the environment around them in their old age compared to their youth.