Editing Thomas the Rhymer (section)

===Thomas in literature and theatre===
* [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s poem "The Last Rhyme of True Thomas" (1894) features Thomas Learmounth and a king who's going to make Thomas his knight.
* [[John Douglas Geddie|John Geddie]], ''Thomas the Rymour and his Rhymes''. [With a portrait of the author], Edinburgh: Printed for the Rymour Club and issued from John Knox's House, 1920.
* In [[William Croft Dickinson]]'s children book ''The Eildon Tree'' (1944), two modern children meeting Thomas the Rhymer and travel back in time to a critical point in Scottish history.
* Thomas is one of the main characters of [[Alexander Reid (playwright)|Alexander Reid]]'s play ''The Lass wi the Muckle Mou'' (1950).
* [[Nigel Tranter]], Scottish writer authored the novel ''[[Historical novels by Nigel Tranter set before 1286#True Thomas|True Thomas]]'' (1981).
* [[Ellen Kushner]]'s novel ''[[Thomas the Rhymer (novel)|Thomas the Rhymer]]'' (1990).
* Bruce Glassco's short story "True Thomas", in [[Ellen Datlow]] and [[Terri Windling]]'s anthology ''[[Black Swan, White Raven]]'' (1997). Like the other stories presented there, the Glassco story put a new spin on the legend. 
* ''Erceldoune'', a novella by [[Richard Leigh (author)|Richard Leigh]] (co-author of ''[[Holy Blood, Holy Grail]]''), features a folk-singer named Thomas "Rafe" Erlston. The novella appeared in the collection [https://books.google.com/books?id=pE1dnq70TkQC&pg=PA1 ''Erceldoune & Other Stories''] (2006) {{ISBN|978-1-4116-9943-4}}
* In [[Sergey Lukyanenko]]'s fantasy novel ''[[Last Watch (Lukyanenko novel)|The Last Watch]]'', Thomas is described as having survived until today and currently occupies the post of the Head of the Scottish Night Watch.
* Thomas appears in [[John Leyland]]'s ballad "Lord Soulis". Here, after failing to bind [[William II de Soules]] with magical ropes of sand, he determines that the sorcerer must be wrapped in lead and boiled.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://literaryballadarchive.com/PDF/Leyden_4_Lord_Soulis_f.pdf |title=Lord Soulis |author=John Leyden |work=British Literary Ballads Archive |access-date=8 April 2014}}</ref><ref name=br>{{cite web |url=http://www.britainexpress.com/scotland/castles/hermitage-castle.htm |title=Hermitage Castle |author=David Ross |work=Britain Express |access-date=3 April 2014}}</ref>
* Thomas the Rhymer is a major character in Andrew James Greig's novel ''One Is One'', (2018),<ref>{{cite book|first=Andrew James|last=Greig|title=One Is One|year=2018|publisher=Independently published |isbn=978-1983122088}}</ref> where Thomas is a man lost to himself and to time as he roams Scotland in the present day.
* Fantasy writer [[Diana Wynne Jones]]' [[Young adult fiction|young adult]] novel ''[[Fire and Hemlock]]'' draws from the ballad in a story set in the present day.
* [[Patricia Wrede|Patricia C. Wrede]]'s novel ''Snow White and Rose Red'' (1989), an adaptation of the [[Snow-White and Rose-Red|fairy tale of the same name]], casts the bear-prince and his brother as the Queen of Faerie's sons by Thomas Learmont, and a condensed version of his legend is given as backstory; the brother uses the surname "Rimer" in his dealings with mortals.