J.R.R. Tolkien’s poem “The Adventures of Tom Bombadil” features Tom Bombadil in its title.
The poem was first published in the Oxford Magazine in 1934 and later became the title piece of Tolkien’s 1962 poetry collection The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. The collection contains sixteen poems connected to Middle-earth or to the fictional traditions surrounding it, although not every poem directly belongs to the narrative of The Lord of the Rings.
Tom Bombadil himself appears in The Fellowship of the Ring as a mysterious figure living in the Old Forest with Goldberry. He is portrayed as ancient, powerful within his own domain, and notably unaffected by the One Ring’s usual temptations. Tolkien deliberately left aspects of Bombadil’s identity unexplained.
The poem is sometimes confused with the prose chapters about Bombadil in The Lord of the Rings. Those chapters were published in 1954, while the poem and its later collection have separate publication histories.