J. R. R. Tolkien bibliography

Fiction

• 1937 The Hobbit or There and Back Again, .
• 1945 "Leaf by Niggle", published in The Dublin Review
• 1945 The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, published in The Welsh Review
• 1949 Farmer Giles of Ham
• 1953 The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, published with the accompanying essays Beorhtnoth's Death and Ofermod, in Essays and Studies by members of the English Association, volume 6.
• The Lord of the Rings
• * 1954 The Fellowship of the Ring: being the first volume of The Lord of the Rings, .
• * 1954 The Two Towers: being the second volume of The Lord of the Rings, .
• * 1955 The Return of the King: being the third volume of The Lord of the Rings, .
• 1962 The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book
• 1964 Tree and Leaf
• 1966 The Tolkien Reader
• 1967 The Road Goes Ever On, with Donald Swann
• 1967 Smith of Wootton Major, published as an illustrated chapbook

  Poetry

• The Battle of the Eastern Field 1911
• From the many-willow'd margin of the immemorial Thames 1913
• The Voyage of Eärendel the Evening Star 1914
• The Bidding of the Minstrel 1914
• Tinfang Warble 1914
• Goblin Feet 1915
• You and Me / and the Cottage of Lost Play 1915
• Kôr 1915, published as The City of the Gods in 1923
• Kortirion among the Trees 1915
• Over Old Hills and Far Away 1915
• A Song of Aryador 1915
• The Shores of Elfland 1915
• Habbanan beneath the Stars 1916
• The Sorrowful City 1916
• The Song of Eriol 1917
• The Horns of Ulmo 1917
• The Happy Mariners, published in 1920, composed in 1915
• The Children of Húrin
• The Clerke's Compleinte 1922
• Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden 1923
• The Eadigan Saelidan 1923
• Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon 1923
• Enigmata Saxonic - a Nuper Inventa Duo 1923
• The Cat and the Fiddle: A Nursery-Rhyme Undone and its Scandalous Secret Unlocked 1923
• An Evening in Tavrobel 1924
• The Lonely Isle 1924
• The Princess Ni 1924
• Light as Leaf on Lindentree 1925
• The Flight of the Noldoli from Valinor 1925
• The Lay of Leithian 1925–1931
• The Lay of Eärendel 1920s
• The Nameless Land 1926
• Adventures in Unnatural History and Mediaeval Metres, being the Freaks of Fisiologus 1927:
• Tinfang Warble, published in 1927, composed in 1914
• Mythopoeia, circa 1931
• Progress in Bimble Town 1931
• Errantry 1933
• Firiel 1934
• Looney 1934
• Songs for the Philologists, with E.V. Gordon et al., published 1936:
• The Dragon's Visit 1937
• Knocking at the Door: Lines induced by sensations when waiting for an answer at the door of an Exalted Academic Person 1937
• The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, published in Welsh Review, December 1945
• Imram 1946
• Elvish translations of Catholic prayers, composed in the 1950s:
• The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son 1953
• The Adventures of Tom Bombadil published in 1962:
• Once upon a time 1965
• Bilbo's Last Song 1966
• For W. H. A. in 1967 in Shenandoah
• King Sheave in The Lost Road in 1987 in The Lost Road and Other Writings
• Narqelion published in 1988 in Mythlore

  Academic and other works

• 1919–1920 contributions to the Oxford English Dictionary
• 1922 ', 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.
• 1932–34 Sigelwara Land parts I and II, in Medium Aevum, Oxford, volume 1, no. 3, pp. 183–196 and volume 3, no. 2, pp. 95–111.
• 1934 ', in Transactions of the Philological Society, London, pp. 1–70
• 1937 ', London, Humphrey Milford, 56 pp.
• 1939 , Oxford, 14 pp.
• 1939 On Fairy-Stories - 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.
• 1947 On Fairy-Stories - 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 , 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
• 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
• 1969 The Rivers and Beacon-Hills of Gondor''

  Posthumous publications

• 1974 Bilbo's Last Song
• 1975 Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings - published in A Tolkien Compass by Jared Lobdell. Written by Tolkien for use by translators of The Lord of the Rings, a full version, re-titled "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings," was published in 2005 in ' by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull.
• 1975 Translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo
• 1976 The Father Christmas Letters. Edited by Baillie Tolkien, a daughter-in-law of the author.
• 1977 The Silmarillion . Edited by Christopher Tolkien, assisted by Guy Gavriel Kay.
• 1979 Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien, George Allen & Unwin, text by Christopher Tolkien,. 2nd edition 1992.
• 1980 Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth .
• 1980 Poems and Stories
• 1981 The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
• 1981 The Old English "Exodus" Text translation and commentary by J. R. R. Tolkien; edited by Joan Turville-Petre. Clarendon Press, Oxford
• 1982 Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode
• 1982 Mr. Bliss
• 1983 The Monsters and the Critics
• * '
• * On Translating Beowulf
• * On Fairy-Stories
• * A Secret Vice
• * English and Welsh
• 1983–1996 The History of Middle-earth:
  1. The Book of Lost Tales 1
  2. The Book of Lost Tales 2
  3. The Lays of Beleriand
  4. The Shaping of Middle-earth
  5. The Lost Road and Other Writings
  6. The Return of the Shadow
  7. The Treason of Isengard
  8. The War of the Ring
  9. Sauron Defeated
  10. Morgoth's Ring
  11. The War of the Jewels
  12. The Peoples of Middle-earth
• * Index
• 1995 ' - a compilation of Tolkien's art
• 1998 Roverandom
• 2002 A Tolkien Miscellany -
• 2002 Beowulf and the Critics ed. Michael D.C. Drout
• 2005 Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings - published in by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull. Re-titled to "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings" in this book. Written by Tolkien for use by translators of The Lord of the Rings, an edited version had been published in 1975 in A Tolkien Compass by Jared Lobdell.
• 2007 The Children of Húrin
• 2007 The History of The Hobbit by John D. Rateliff – contains substantial text fragments
• 2008 Tales from the Perilous Realm
• 2009 The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
• 2013 The Fall of Arthur
• 2014 '
• 2015 The Story of Kullervo
• 2016 A Secret Vice
• 2016 The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, originally published in Welsh Review in 1945
• 2017 Beren and Lúthien
• 2018 The Fall of Gondolin

  Audio recordings

• 1967 Poems and Songs of Middle-earth, Caedmon TC 1231
• 1975 J. R. R. Tolkien Reads and Sings his The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings, Caedmon TC 1477, TC 1478