Two forgotten 80-year old poems by J.R.R. Tolkien discovered.

Written in 1936 before The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, or anything else that might bring him fame, J.R.R. Tolkien published two poems in the annual of Our Lady's School in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England. Somehow, as things came to pass, the poems were largely forgotten.

Wayne Hammond, a Tolkien Scholar, contacted the school's headmaster recently after research told him Tolkien had published the poems eight decades earlier. The poems--titled "The Shadow Man" and "Noel," a Christmas poem--will now be the centerpiece to a Tolkien exhibition at the school.

Let's hope "Noel" is just code for "hobbit," since no one will want to read it otherwise.