(3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973 / Orange Free State)

poet John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
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All That is Gold Does Not Glitter


The text of this poem could not be published because of Copyright laws.

Submitted: Friday, January 03, 2003
Edited: Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Oxford University Press HarperCollins Houghton Mifflin   Christopher Tolkien


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  • Jawad Al Harake (5/28/2012 6:35:00 AM)

    Short but very strong and expressing, I liked so much! ! !

    12 person liked.
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  • Dillon M (3/4/2012 12:08:00 PM)

    @ Yasmin A
    Just so ya know Tolkein wrote Lord of the Rings, and while, yes, your interpretation is true, that is only if you are taking it literrally with the context in the books. However, you must consider that Tolkien may have intended for this poem to have more than one meaning that is not confined to the context of Lord of the Rings, which is to say that all the other interpretations could be correct as well.

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  • Manonton Dalan (2/2/2012 8:32:00 PM)

    he could have been talking about south africa.

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  • Nina F (6/13/2010 10:54:00 AM)

    small but cool...^^ i loved it

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  • Anita Trivedi (4/23/2010 2:02:00 AM)

    Its title itself is so beutiful and so the whole poem....... its really beutiful..............

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  • Samuel Naser (2/27/2010 6:43:00 PM)

    i love this poem i always have.

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  • Sylva Portoian (2/22/2010 3:02:00 AM)

    All that is gold, does not glitter,
    A very old an common proverb
    Said by many ethnicities
    Knowing four languages
    I heard it many times
    As if I'm counting my hair.

    The rhyme of this poem says a lot
    more than a gold.

    17 person liked.
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  • Joey Valenzuela (1/6/2010 9:59:00 PM)

    tolkien is just talking about realities...many poets have done so....but this is much good though...

    tolkien really is a son of literature....

    12 person liked.
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  • Kay Mohamed (1/1/2010 9:38:00 AM)

    Beautiful. So true, there is more to what our eyes see often than not. And the beauty is seeing it.

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  • Cynthia Buhain-Baello (12/4/2009 4:54:00 AM)

    Beautiful, golden poetry so rich in relevant meaning, so flawless in meter and rhyme. Perfect mastery.

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