The Dragon’s Visit
A poem by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Dragon's Visit is a humorous poem about a dragon, written by J.R.R. Tolkien (probably in 1928) in his series Tales and Songs of Bimble Bay.
When submitting a number of poems for The Adventures of Tom Bombadil in 1962, "The Dragon's Visit" was included but was eventually omitted from the collection. Douglas A. Anderson has suggested that Tolkien perhaps thought the poem unsuitable within the legendarium: It mentions a fire brigade set against a dragon.
John D. Rateliff has noted that he considers the "The Dragon's Visit" to be "one of Tolkien's best poems".
Publication history
The poem was first published on February 4th, 1937 within The Oxford Magazine (Volume 55, Number 11).
A revised version of the poem, with a different ending, was printed in Winter's Tales for Children 1 (October 1965) and in The Young Magicians (1969).
The original poem (together with the revised ending) was included in The Annotated Hobbit: Revised and Expanded Edition in 2002 and in Tales Before Narnia in 2008.
Referencias
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