J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien

Bibliography

Middle Earth

• The Hobbit: or There and Back Again (1937)
• The Lord of the Rings
  • The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
  • The Two Towers (1954)
  • The Return of the King (1955)
• The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book (1962)
• Bilbo's Last Song (1974)
  – First published in poster form only; book publication 1990.
• The Silmarillion (1977)
• Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth (1980)
• The History of Middle-Earth
  • The Book of Lost Tales, Part I (1983)
  • The Book of Lost Tales, Part II (1984)
  • The Lays of Beleriand (1985)
  • The Shaping of Middle-Earth (1986)
  • The Lost Road and Other Writings (1987)
  • The Return of the Shadow (1988)
  • The Treason of Isengard (1989)
  • The War of the Ring (1990)
  • Sauron Defeated (1992)
  • Morgoth's Ring (1993)
  • The War of the Jewels (1994)
  • The Peoples of Middle-Earth (1996)
• Poems from The Lord of the Rings (1994)
• I.Lam na.Goldogrin: The Grammar and Lexicon of The Gnomish Tongue (1995)
• Qenyaqetsa: The Qenya Phonology and Lexicon, together with The Poetic and Mythologic Words of Eldarissa (1998)
• 'From Quendi and Eldar, Appendix D' [containing '*Kwen, Quenya, and the Elvish (especially Ñoldorin) words for Language', omitted from Morgoth's Ring] (1998)

Nonseries Novels and Tales

• Sir Gawain & The Green Knight (1925)
• Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)
• Tree and Leaf (1964)
  – Reprints Tolkien's lecture On Fairy-Stories and his short story Leaf by Niggle.
• Smith of Wootton Major (1967)
• The Father Christmas Letters (1976)
  A/K/A: Letters from Father Christmas
• Mr. Bliss (1982)
• Roverandom (1998)

Poetry

• Songs for the Philologists (1936)
• The Road Goes Ever On (1967)
• Poems and Stories (1980)
• Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien (1993)

Translations from Middle English

• The Reeve's Tale (1939)
  – Adapted from Chaucer.
• Sir Orfeo (1944)
• Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle (1962)
  – Rule for a female mediaeval religious order.
• The Old English "Exodus" (1981)
• Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode (1982)
  – Translations and commentaries by Tolkien.

Essays, Scholarly Works, Correspondence

• A Middle English Vocabulary (1922)
• Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981)
• The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (1983)
  A/K/A: Beowulf and the Critics
• 'Ósanwe-kenta: "Enquiry into the Communication of Thought"' (1998)

Pictures and Drawings

• Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien (1979)