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

#1937 '' The Hobbit, or There and Back Again'', ( HM)
#1954–1955 ''The Lord of the Rings''
:#1954 ''The Fellowship of the Ring'': being the first volume of ''The Lord of the Rings'', (HM)
:#1954 ''The Two Towers'': being the second volume of ''The Lord of the Rings'', (HM)
:#1955 ''The Return of the King'': being the third volume of ''The Lord of the Rings'', (HM)

Poetry books

#1962 ''The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book''
#1967 ''The Road Goes Ever On'', with Donald Swann, a song-cycle

Posthumous

*1974 ''Bilbo's Last Song''
*1975 ''Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings'' (edited version) 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 '' The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion'' by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull,
*1977 ''The Silmarillion'' edited by Christopher Tolkien with the assistance of Guy Gavriel Kay. (HM)
*1980 ''Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth'' edited by Christopher Tolkien, (HM)
*1983–1996 ''The History of Middle-earth'' compiled and edited by Christopher Tolkien (a combined index of the series was published in 2002):
:#'' The Book of Lost Tales 1'' (1983)
:#'' The Book of Lost Tales 2'' (1984)
:#''The Lays of Beleriand'' (1985)
:#''The Shaping of Middle-earth'' (1986)
:#''The Lost Road and Other Writings'' (1987)
:#''The Return of the Shadow'' (The History of ''The Lord of the Rings'' vol. 1) (1988)
:#''The Treason of Isengard'' (The History of ''The Lord of the Rings'' vol. 2) (1989)
:#''The War of the Ring'' (The History of ''The Lord of the Rings'' vol. 3) (1990)
:#''Sauron Defeated'' (The History of ''The Lord of the Rings'' vol. 4, including ''The Notion Club Papers'') (1992)
:#''Morgoth's Ring'' (The Later Silmarillion vol. 1) (1993)
:#''The War of the Jewels'' (The Later Silmarillion vol. 2) (1994)
:#''The Peoples of Middle-earth'' (1996)
*2005 ''Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings'' (full version) published in '' The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion '' 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 was Lobdell 1975 (above).
*2007 ''The Children of Húrin'' edited by Christopher Tolkien
*2007 '' The History of The Hobbit'' by John D. Rateliff - contains substantial text fragments
*2017 ''Beren and Lúthien'' edited by Christopher Tolkien
*2018 ''The Fall of Gondolin'' edited by Christopher Tolkien
*2021 '' The Nature of Middle-earth'' edited by Carl F. Hostetter
*2022 ''The Fall of Númenor'' edited by Brian Sibley

Short works

*1945 " Leaf by Niggle" (short story), published in ''The Dublin Review''
*1945 ''The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun'' (poem), published in ''The Welsh Review''
*1949 ''Farmer Giles of Ham'' (medieval fable)
*1953 '' The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son'' (a play written in alliterative verse), published with the accompanying essays ''Beorhtnoth's Death'' and ''Ofermod'', in ''Essays and Studies by members of the English Association'', volume 6.
*1964 ''Tree and Leaf'' (''On Fairy-Stories'' and '' Leaf by Niggle'' in book form)
*1966 ''The Tolkien Reader'' ('' The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son'', ''On Fairy-Stories'', '' Leaf by Niggle'', ''Farmer Giles of Ham'', and ''The Adventures of Tom Bombadil'')
*1967 ''Smith of Wootton Major'' (short story), published as an illustrated chapbook

Poetry

Unless stated otherwise, the years indicate the date of composition.
*''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'' ('' The Book of Lost Tales 2'' 267-269) 1914
*''The Bidding of the Minstrel'' 1914 ('' The Book of Lost Tales 2'' 261f., 269f.)
*''Tinfang Warble'' 1914 ('' The Book of Lost Tales 1'' 107f.)
*'' Goblin Feet'' 1915
*''You and Me / and the Cottage of Lost Play'' 1915 ('' The Book of Lost Tales 1'' 27f.)
*''Kôr'' 1915, published as ''The City of the Gods'' in 1923 ('' The Book of Lost Tales 1'' 136)
*''Kortirion among the Trees'' 1915 (revised in 1937 and the 1960s, ''The Trees of Kortirion'')
*''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 Book of Lost Tales 2'' 298ff.)
*''The Horns of Ulmo'' 1917
*''The Happy Mariners'', published in 1920, composed in 1915
*''The Children of Húrin'' (begun in 1920 or earlier, continued to 1925) (''The Lays of Beleriand'')
*''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 Lays of Beleriand'')
*''The Lay of Leithian'' 1925-1931 (''The Lays of Beleriand'')
*''The Lay of Eärendel'' 1920s (''The Lays of Beleriand'')
*''The Nameless Land'' 1926
*''Adventures in Unnatural History and Mediaeval Metres, being the Freaks of Fisiologus'' 1927:
**'' Fastitocalon''
**''Iumbo''
*''Tinfang Warble'', published in 1927, composed in 1914
*''Mythopoeia'', circa 1931 (published in ''Tree and Leaf'')
*''Progress in Bimble Town'' 1931
*'' Errantry'' 1933
*''Firiel'' 1934
*''Looney'' 1934
*'' Songs for the Philologists'', with E.V. Gordon ''et al.'', published 1936:
**'' Bagme Bloma''
**''Éadig Béo þu!''
**''Frenchmen Froth''
**''From One to Five''
**''I Sat upon a Bench''
**''Ides Ælfscýne''
**''La Húru''
**''Lit and Lang''
**''Natura Apis: Morali Ricardi Eremite''
**''Ofer Wídne Gársecg''
**''The Root of the Boot''
**''Ruddoc Hana''
**''Syx Mynet''
*''The Road Goes Ever On'' in ''The Hobbit'', 1937, and three more versions in ''The Lord of the Rings'', 1954-1955
*''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'' (''The Death of St. Brendan'') 1946 (published in ''Time and Tide'', December 1955, ''Sauron Defeated'' 261ff, 296ff)
*Elvish translations of Catholic prayers (ed. Wynne, Smith, Hostetter in '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 43, 44, 2002), composed in the 1950s:
**''Ataremma versions'' (Quenya ''Pater Noster'') versions I-VI
**''Aia María'' (Quenya ''Ave Maria'') versions I-IV
**''Litany of Loreto'' in Quenya
**''Ortírielyanna'' (Quenya '' Sub tuum praesidium'')
**''Alcar i Ataren'' (Quenya ''Gloria Patri'')
**''Alcar mi tarmenel na Erun'' (Quenya '' Gloria in Excelsis Deo'')
**''Ae Adar Nín'' (Sindarin ''Pater Noster'')
*'' The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son'' 1953
*'' A Walking Song'' two versions in ''The Lord of the Rings'', 1954-1955
*''The Adventures of Tom Bombadil'' published in 1962:
**''The Adventures of Tom Bombadil''
**''Bombadil Goes Boating''
**'' Errantry''
**''Little Princess Mee''
**'' The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late''
**''The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon''
**''The Stone Troll''
**''Perry-the-Winkle''
**''The Mewlips''
**''Oliphaunt''
**'' Fastitocalon''
**''The Cat''
**''Shadow-Bride''
**''The Hoard''
**''The Sea-Bell''
**''The Last Ship''
*''Once upon a time'' 1965
*''Bilbo's Last Song'' 1966 (first published in 1974, as a poster)
*''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'', 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.
*1932-34 ''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''

Posthumous publications

*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 Tolkien
*1980 '' Poems and Stories'' (a compilation of ''The Adventures of Tom Bombadil'', '' The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son'', ''On Fairy-Stories'', '' Leaf by Niggle'', ''Farmer Giles of Ham'' and ''Smith of Wootton Major'')
*1981 ''The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien'' (edited by Christopher Tolkien and Humphrey Carpenter)
*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'' (an essay collection)
**'' Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics'' (1936)
**''On Translating Beowulf'' (1940)
**''On Fairy-Stories'' (1947)
**''A Secret Vice'' (1930)
**''English and Welsh'' (1955)
*1995 '' J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator'' - a compilation of Tolkien's artwork
*1998 ''Roverandom''
*2002 ''A Tolkien Miscellany'' - (a compilation of ''Smith of Wootton Major'', ''Farmer Giles of Ham'', ''The Adventures of Tom Bombadil'', ''Tree and Leaf'', and Tolkien's translations of ''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'', ''Pearl'' and ''Sir Orfeo'')
*2002 ''Beowulf and the Critics'' ed. Michael D.C. Drout (''Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics'' together with two drafts of the longer essay from which it was condensed)
*2008 ''Tales from the Perilous Realm'' (a compilation of ''Roverandom'', ''Farmer Giles of Ham'', ''The Adventures of Tom Bombadil'', ''Smith of Wootton Major'', '' Leaf by Niggle'' and ''On Fairy-Stories'')
*2009 ''The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún''
*2013 ''The Fall of Arthur'' (a narrative poem about King Arthur of Britain)
*2014 '' Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary'' (ed. Christopher Tolkien; includes "Sellic Spell")
*2015 ''The Story of Kullervo'' (ed. Verlyn Flieger)
*2016 ''A Secret Vice''
*2016 ''The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun'', originally published in ''Welsh Review'', 1945

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''.

*1989 "The Plotz Quenya Declensions", first published in part in the fanzine Beyond Bree, and later in full in '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 6, p, 14.
*1991 "Koivieneni Sentence" in '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 14, pp, 5-20.
*1992 "New Tengwar Inscription" in '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 21, p, 6.
*1992 "Liège Tengwar Inscription" in '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 23, p, 16.
*1993 "Two Trees Sentence" in '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 27, pp, 7-42.
*1993 "Koivieneni Manuscript" in '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 27, pp, 7-42.
*1993 "The Bodleian Declensions", in '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 28, pp, 9-34.
*1994 "The Entu Declension" in '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 36, pp, 8-29.
*1995 "Gnomish Lexicon", ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 11.
*1995 "Rúmilian Document" in '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 37, pp, 15-23.
*1998 "Qenya Lexicon" ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 12.
*1998 " Osanwe-kenta, Enquiry into the communication of thought", '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 39
*1998 "From Quendi and Eldar, Appendix D." '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 39, pp, 4-20.
*1999 "Narqelion", '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 40, pp, 5-32
*2000 "Etymological Notes: Osanwe-kenta" '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 41, pp, 5-6
*2000 "From The Shibboleth of Fëanor" (written ca. 1968) '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 41, pp, 7-10 (A part of ''the Shibboleth of Fëanor'' was published in The Peoples of Middle-earth, pp, 331-366)
*2000 "Notes on Óre" '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 41, pp, 11-19
*2000 "Merin Sentence" Tyalie Tyalieva 14, pp, 32-35
*2001 "The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor" (written 1967-1969) '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 42, pp, 5-31.
*2001 "Essay on negation in Quenya" '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 42, pp, 33-34.
*2001 "Goldogrim Pronominal Prefixes" ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 13 p, 97.
*2001 "Early Noldorin Grammar", ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 13, pp, 119-132.
*2002 "Words of Joy: Five Catholic Prayers in Quenya (Part One), '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 43:
**"Ataremma" (''Pater Noster'' in Quenya) versions I-VI, pp. 4-26
**"Aia María" (''Ave Maria'' in Quenya) versions I-IV, pp. 26-36
**"Alcar i Ataren" (''Gloria Patri'' in Quenya), pp, 36-38
*2002 "Words of Joy: Five Catholic Prayers in Quenya (Part Two), '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 44:
**"Litany of Loreto" in Quenya, pp. 11-20.
**"Ortírielyanna" ('' Sub tuum praesidium'' in Quenya), pp. 5-11
**"Alcar mi tarmenel na Erun" ('' Gloria in Excelsis Deo'' in Quenya), pp. 31-38.
**"Ae Adar Nín" (''Pater Noster'' in Sindarin) '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 44, pp. 21-30.
*2003 "Early Qenya Fragments", ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 14.
*2003 "Early Qenya Grammar", ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 14.
*2003 "The Valmaric Scripts", ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 14.
*2004 "''Sí Qente Feanor'' and Other Elvish Writings", ed. Smith, Gilson, Wynne, and Welden, ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 15.
*2005 "Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals (Part One)." Edited by Patrick H. Wynne. '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 47, pp, 3-43.
*2005 "Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals (Part Two)." Edited by Patrick H. Wynne. '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 48, pp, 4-34.
*2006 "Pre-Fëanorian Alphabets", Part 1, ed. Smith, ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 16.
*2006 "Early Elvish Poetry: ''Oilima Markirya, Nieninqe'' and ''Earendel''", ed. Gilson, Welden, and Hostetter, ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 16
*2006 "Qenya Declensions", "Qenya Conjugations", "Qenya Word-lists", ed. Gilson, Hostetter, Wynne, ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 16
*2007 "Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals (Part Three)." Edited by Patrick H. Wynne. '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 49, pp, 3-37.
*2007 "Five Late Quenya Volitive Inscriptions." '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 49, pp, 38-58.
*2007 "Ambidexters Sentence", '' Vinyar Tengwar'' 49
*2007 "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", edited by Gilson, ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 17.
*2009 "Tengwesta Qenderinwa", ed. Gilson, Smith and Wynne, ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 18.
*2009 "Pre-Fëanorian Alphabets, Part 2", ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 18.
*2010 "Quenya Phonology", ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 19.
*2010 "Comparative Tables", ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 19.
*2010 "Outline of Phonetic Development", ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 19.
*2010 "Outline of Phonology", ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 19.
*2012 "The Quenya Alphabet", ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 20.
*2013 "Qenya: Declension of Nouns", ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 21.
*2013 "Primitive Quendian: Final Consonants", ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 21.
*2013 "Common Eldarin: Noun Structure", ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 21.
*2015 "The Fëanorian Alphabet, Part 1", ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 22.
*2015 "Quenya Verb Structure", ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 22.

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 (based on an August 1952 recording by George Sayer)

Art

*1979 ''Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien'', George Allen & Unwin, text by Christopher Tolkien, . 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

*
*Tolkien research
* Translations of ''The Lord of the Rings''
* Translations of ''The Hobbit''
*Works inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien

Notes

References

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