Two works by the Lord of the Rings author discovered in the 1936 annual of Our Lady’s School in OxfordshireTwo poems by JRR Tolkien,in which The Lord of the Rings author writes variously of “a man who dwelt alone/beneath the moon in shadow”, and of the “lord of snows”, and hold been discovered in a school magazine in Abingdon,Oxfordshire.
Believed to hold been written while Tolkien was professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University, the poems were found in the 1936 annual of Our Lady’s School in Oxfordshire. The discovery was made when the US Tolkien scholar Wayne Hammond contacted Our Lady’s headteacher, and Stephen Oliver. Hammond had found a note from Tolkien in which The Hobbit author mentioned that he had published two poems in a magazine he named as the Abingdon Chronicle.
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Source: theguardian.com