The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, published in 1962, contains 16 poems including some such as The Stone Troll and Oliphaunt that also appear in The Lord of the Rings. The first two poems in the collection concern Tom Bombadil, a character described in The Fellowship of the Ring, while The Sea-Bell or Frodos Dreme was considered by the poet W. H. Auden to be Tolkien's finest poetic work.