J. R. R. Tolkien bibliography

This is a list of all published works of the English writer and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien. Tolkien's works were published before and after his death.

Fiction

Middle-earth
  1. 1937 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, ISBN 0-618-00221-9 (HM)
  2. 1954–1955 The Lord of the Rings
  1. 1954 The Fellowship of the Ring: being the first volume of The Lord of the Rings, ISBN 0-618-00222-7 (HM)
  2. 1954 The Two Towers: being the second volume of The Lord of the Rings, ISBN 0-618-00223-5 (HM)
  3. 1955 The Return of the King: being the third volume of The Lord of the Rings, ISBN 0-618-00224-3 (HM)

Poetry books
  1. 1962 The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book
  2. 1967 The Road Goes Ever On, with Donald Swann, a song-cycle

Posthumous
  1. The Book of Lost Tales 1 (1983)
  2. The Book of Lost Tales 2 (1984)
  3. The Lays of Beleriand (1985)
  4. The Shaping of Middle-earth (1986)
  5. The Lost Road and Other Writings (1987)
  6. The Return of the Shadow (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 1) (1988)
  7. The Treason of Isengard (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 2) (1989)
  8. The War of the Ring (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 3) (1990)
  9. Sauron Defeated (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 4, including The Notion Club Papers) (1992)
  10. Morgoth's Ring (The Later Silmarillion vol. 1) (1993)
  11. The War of the Jewels (The Later Silmarillion vol. 2) (1994)
  12. The Peoples of Middle-earth (1996)

Short works

Poetry
Further information: Poetry in The Lord of the Rings

Unless stated otherwise, the years indicate the date of composition.

Academic and other works
  • 1919–1920 contributions to the Oxford English Dictionary, described in The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary
  • 1922 A Middle English Vocabulary, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 168 pp.
  • 1925 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, co-edited with E.V. Gordon, Oxford University Press, 211 pp.; Revised edition 1967, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 232 pp.
  • 1925 Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography, published in The Review of English Studies, volume 1, no, 2, pp, 210–215.
  • 1925 The Devil's Coach Horses, published in The Review of English Studies, volume 1, no, 3, pp, 331–336.
  • 1929 Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad, published in Essays and Studies by members of the English Association, Oxford, volume 14, pp, 104–126.
  • 1932 The Name 'Nodens', concerning the name Nodens, published in Report on the Excavation of the Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, Oxford, University Press for The Society of Antiquaries.
  • 1932–1934 Sigelwara Land parts I and II, in Medium Aevum, Oxford, volume 1, no, 3 (December 1932), pp, 183–196 and volume 3, no, 2 (June 1934), pp, 95–111.
  • 1934 Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale, in Transactions of the Philological Society, London, pp, 1–70 (rediscovery of dialect humour, introducing the Hengwrt manuscript into textual criticism of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales)
  • 1937 Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, London, Humphrey Milford, 56 pp. (publication of his 1936 lecture on Beowulf criticism)
  • 1939 The Reeve's Tale: version prepared for recitation at the 'summer diversions', Oxford, 14 pp.
  • 1939 On Fairy-Stories (1939 Andrew Lang lecture) – concerning Tolkien's philosophy on fantasy, this lecture was a shortened version of an essay later published in full in 1947.
  • 1944 Sir Orfeo, Oxford, The Academic Copying Office, 18 pp. (an edition of the medieval poem)
  • 1947 On Fairy-Stories (essay – published in Essays presented to Charles Williams, Oxford University Press) – first full publication of an essay concerning Tolkien's philosophy on fantasy, and which had been presented in shortened form as the 1939 Andrew Lang lecture.
  • 1953 Ofermod and Beorhtnoth's Death, two essays published with the poem The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son in Essays and Studies by members of the English Association, volume 6.
  • 1953 Middle English "Losenger": Sketch of an etymological and semantic enquiry, published in Essais de philologie moderne: Communications présentées au Congrès International de Philologie Moderne (1951), Les Belles Lettres.
  • 1958 The Old English Apollonius of Tyre, Oxford University Press – editorial prefatory note
  • 1962 Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle, Early English Text Society, Oxford University Press.
  • 1963 English and Welsh, in Angles and Britons: O'Donnell Lectures, University of Cardiff Press.
  • 1964 Introduction to Tree and Leaf, with details of the composition and history of Leaf by Niggle and On Fairy-Stories.
  • 1966 Contributions to the Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer)
  • 1966 Foreword to the Second Edition of The Lord of the Rings, with Tolkien's comments on the varied reaction to his work, his motivation for writing the work, and his opinion of allegory.
  • 1966 Tolkien on Tolkien (autobiographical)
  • 1969 The Rivers and Beacon-Hills of Gondor[lower-alpha 3]

Posthumous publications
For essays and text fragments by Tolkien published posthumously in academic publications and forums, see Tolkien research.

Constructed languages

A large volume of Tolkien's writings on his constructed languages, primarily the Elvish languages such as Quenya and Sindarin, was published and annotated by scholars in the journals Vinyar Tengwar and Parma Eldalamberon.

Audio recordings
  • 1967 Poems and Songs of Middle-earth, Caedmon TC 1231
  • 1975 J. R. R. Tolkien Reads and Sings His The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Caedmon TC 1477, TC 1478 (based on an August 1952 recording by George Sayer)

Art
  • 1979 Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien, George Allen & Unwin, text by Christopher Tolkien, ISBN 0047410035. 2nd edition 1992.
  • 1995 J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator (text by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull)
  • 2011 The Art of The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (text by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull)
  • 2015 The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (text by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull)

See also

Notes
  1. Republished in various editions, lately in the 1999 edition of Tree and Leaf in the UK only.
  2. Also in Shippey, Tom. The Road to Middle-Earth, Grafton, 1992. pp 303–309
  3. This essay was not finished and has never been published in its entirety, although parts of it were published in Unfinished Tales, and the remaining parts were published in the periodical Vinyar Tengwar, issue number 42 in 2001.

References
  1. Maloney, Jennifer (19 October 2016). "J.R.R. Tolkien's Story, "Beren and Lúthien", Will Be Published a Century After It Was Written". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
  2. Flood, Alison (10 April 2018). "The Fall of Gondolin, 'new' JRR Tolkien book, to be published in 2018". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  3. Flood, Alison (19 November 2020). "Unseen JRR Tolkien essays on Middle-earth coming in 2021". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  4. "New Tolkien book: The Fall of Númenor to be published". The Tolkien Society. 22 June 2022. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  5. "A Tolkien Miscellany by J.R.R. Tolkien". Goodreads. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  6. "The Fall of Arthur – J. R. R. Tolkien". HarperCollins. Archived from the original on 10 June 2013. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
  7. Flood, Alison (19 March 2014). "JRR Tolkien translation of Beowulf to be published after 90-year wait". The Guardian.
  8. "JRR Tolkien's 100-year-old unpublished fantasy tale to finally see light of day". dna. 7 June 2015.
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