J. R. R. Tolkien bibliography

This is a list of all the published works of the English writer and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, including works published posthumously.

Fiction

Middle-earth

1937 The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
1954Ã¢ÂÂ1955 The Lord of the Rings
# The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
# The Two Towers (1954)
# The Return of the King (1955)

Poetry books

1962 The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book
1967 The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle, with Donald Swann

Posthumous

1974 Bilbo's Last Song (at the Grey Havens)
1975 "Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings" (edited version) published in A Tolkien Compass by Jared Lobdell. Written 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

1977 The Silmarillion edited by Christopher Tolkien with the assistance of Guy Gavriel Kay.

1980 Unfinished Tales of NÃÂºmenor and Middle-earth edited by Christopher Tolkien

1983Ã¢ÂÂ1996 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 Part One (1983)

# The Book of Lost Tales Part Two (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) (1992) including The Notion Club Papers

# 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 by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull. Re-titled to "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings" in this book. Written for use by translators of The Lord of the Rings; an edited version was Lobdell 1975 (above).

2007 The Children of HÃÂºrin edited by Christopher Tolkien

2007 The History of The Hobbit by John D. Rateliff Ã¢ÂÂ contains substantial text fragments

2017 Beren and LÃÂºthien 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 NÃÂºmenor edited by Brian Sibley

2024 The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond

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

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil c. 1931-62

Bombadil Goes Boating

Errantry c. 1931-62

Princess Mee 1915-62

The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late ?1919-62

The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon 1915-62

The Stone Troll c. 1924-62

Perry-the-Winkle: A Nursery Rhyme in the House of Master Samwise ?1928-61

The Mewlips ?1927-61 or 62

Oliphaunt ?1927-61 or 62

Fastitocalon ?1927-61 or 62

Cat

Shadow-Bride ?1936-62

The Hoard ?1922-61

The Sea-Bell c. 1932 or 33-1961

The Last Ship ?1933-62

Once upon a Time 1916-64

The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien

Empty Chapel ?1915

Goblin Feet 1915-c. 1923

BealuwÃÂ©rig c. 1930

Monday Morning c. 1931-4

Scatha the Worm c. 1954

The Complaint of MÃÂ®m the Dwarf 1961 or 62

The Lays of Beleriand

As Light as Leaf on Linden-tree ?1919-54

The Lay of the Children of HÃÂºrin (begun in 1920 or earlier, continued to 1925)

The Flight of the Noldoli from Valinor 1925

Lay of Leithian 1925-c. 1949 or 50

The Silmarillion

"Ir Ithil ammen EruchÃÂn" 1925-c. 1949 or 50

"He chanted a song of wizardry," 1925-c. 1949 or 50

Songs for the Philologists

From One to Five c. 1924

Ruddoc Hana c. 1924

Ides ÃÂlfscÃÂ½ne c. 1924

BagmÃÂ BlÃÂma c. 1924

ÃÂadig BÃÂ©o ÃÂ¾u! c. 1924

Ofer WÃÂdne GÃÂ¡rsecg c. 1924

I Sat upon a Bench c. 1924

Frenchmen Froth c. 1924

Two Little Schemes: Lit' and Lang c. 1924

Syx Mynet ?1928

LÃÂ¡, HÃÂºru ?1928

Natura Apis: Morali Ricardi Eremite ?1928

The Hobbit

Bilbo's Walking Song c. 1928-48

The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (Welsh Review) ?1929-41

Bilbo's Last Song (at the Grey Havens) ?1931-c. 1960

The Lord of the Rings

The Short Lay of EÃÂ¤rendel: EÃÂ¤rendillinwÃÂ« c. 1931-62

"walking-songs" 1938-54

The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son 1931-53

The Legend of Sigurd and GudrÃÂºn

VÃÂ¶lsungakviÃÂ°a en nÃÂ½ja eÃÂ°a SigurÃÂ°arkviÃÂ°a en mesta

GuÃÂ°rÃÂºnarkviÃÂ°a en nÃÂ½ja eÃÂ°aÃÂ DrÃÂ¡p Niflunga

The Prophecy of the Sibyl ?1931 or ?32

Mythopoeia (Tree and Leaf) ?1932 or ?33-?35

The Bovadium Fragments: together with The Origin of Bovadium

Domine defende nos contra hos Motores bos! c. 1957-60

Full Latin translation of A. D. Godley's The Motor Bus

Academic and other works

1919Ã¢ÂÂ1920 contributions to the Oxford English Dictionary, described in '
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, 210Ã¢ÂÂ215.
1925 The Devil's Coach Horses, published in The Review of English Studies, volume 1, no, 3, pp, 331Ã¢ÂÂ336.
1929 Ancrene Wisse and Hali MeiÃÂ°had, published in Essays and Studies by members of the English Association, Oxford, volume 14, pp, 104Ã¢ÂÂ126.
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.
1932Ã¢ÂÂ1934 Sigelwara Land parts I and II, in Medium Aevum, Oxford, volume 1, no, 3 (December 1932), pp, 183Ã¢ÂÂ196 and volume 3, no, 2 (June 1934), pp, 95Ã¢ÂÂ111.
1934 ', in Transactions of the Philological Society, London, pp, 1Ã¢ÂÂ70 (rediscovery of dialect humour, introducing the Hengwrt manuscript into textual criticism of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales)

1937 ', London, Humphrey Milford, 56 pp. (publication of his 1936 lecture on Beowulf criticism)
1939 ', Oxford, 14 pp.

1939 On Fairy-Stories (1939 Andrew Lang lecture) Ã¢ÂÂ concerning Tolkien's philosophy on fantasy, this lecture was a shortened version of an essay later published in full in 1947.

1940 Prefatory Remarks on Prose Translation of "Beowulf", in Clark Hall's Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment, Revised edition 1940, pp.ix-xliii, London, George Allen & Unwin (later published as the essay On Translating Beowulf)

1944 Sir Orfeo, Oxford, The Academic Copying Office, 18 pp. (an edition of the medieval poem)

1947 On Fairy-Stories (essay Ã¢ÂÂ published in Essays presented to Charles Williams, Oxford University Press) Ã¢ÂÂ 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 prÃÂ©sentÃÂ©es au CongrÃÂ¨s International de Philologie Moderne (1951), Les Belles Lettres.

1958 The Old English Apollonius of Tyre, Oxford University Press Ã¢ÂÂ 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 his 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, and Other Essays (an essay collection)

"" (1936)

"On Translating Beowulf (1940)

"On Fairy-Stories" (1947)

"A Secret Vice" (1930)

"English and Welsh" (1955)

1995 ' Ã¢ÂÂ a compilation of Tolkien's artwork
1998 Roverandom
2002 A Tolkien Miscellany Ã¢ÂÂ (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 edited by 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 GudrÃÂºn
2013 The Fall of Arthur (a narrative poem about King Arthur of Britain)
2014 ' (edited by Christopher Tolkien; includes "Sellic Spell")

2014 "The Book of Jonah", his translation prior to final editing for the Jerusalem Bible, in Journal of Inklings Studies, 4.2: 5-9.

2015 The Story of Kullervo (edited by Verlyn Flieger)

2016 A Secret Vice

2016 The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, originally published in Welsh Review, 1945

2023 The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth

2025 The Bovadium Fragments: together with The Origin of Bovadium (edited by Christopher Tolkien, with an historical essay by Richard Ovenden)

Constructed languages

A large volume of Tolkien's writings on his constructed languages, primarily the Elvish languages such as Quenya and Sindarin, have been 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, 5Ã¢ÂÂ20.

1992 "New Tengwar Inscription" in Vinyar Tengwar 21, p, 6.

1992 "LiÃÂ¨ge Tengwar Inscription" in Vinyar Tengwar 23, p, 16.

1993 "Two Trees Sentence" in Vinyar Tengwar 27, pp, 7Ã¢ÂÂ42.

1993 "Koivieneni Manuscript" in Vinyar Tengwar 27, pp, 7Ã¢ÂÂ42.

1993 "The Bodleian Declensions", in Vinyar Tengwar 28, pp, 9Ã¢ÂÂ34.

1994 "The Entu Declension" in Vinyar Tengwar 36, pp, 8Ã¢ÂÂ29.

1995 "Gnomish Lexicon", Parma Eldalamberon 11.

1995 "RÃÂºmilian Document" in Vinyar Tengwar 37, pp, 15Ã¢ÂÂ23.

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, 4Ã¢ÂÂ20.

1999 "Narqelion", Vinyar Tengwar 40, pp, 5Ã¢ÂÂ32

2000 "Etymological Notes: Osanwe-kenta" Vinyar Tengwar 41, pp, 5Ã¢ÂÂ6

2000 "From " (written ca. 1968) Vinyar Tengwar 41, pp, 7Ã¢ÂÂ10 (A part of the Shibboleth of FÃÂ«anor was published in The Peoples of Middle-earth, pp, 331Ã¢ÂÂ366)

2000 "Notes on ÃÂre" Vinyar Tengwar 41, pp, 11Ã¢ÂÂ19

2000 "Merin Sentence" Tyalie Tyalieva 14, pp, 32Ã¢ÂÂ35

2001 "The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor" (written 1967Ã¢ÂÂ1969) Vinyar Tengwar 42, pp, 5Ã¢ÂÂ31.

2001 "Essay on negation in Quenya" Vinyar Tengwar 42, pp, 33Ã¢ÂÂ34.

2001 "Goldogrim Pronominal Prefixes" Parma Eldalamberon 13 p, 97.

2001 "Early Noldorin Grammar", Parma Eldalamberon 13, pp, 119Ã¢ÂÂ132.

2002 "Words of Joy: Five Catholic Prayers in Quenya (Part One), Vinyar Tengwar 43:

"Ataremma" (Pater Noster in Quenya) versions I-VI, pp. 4Ã¢ÂÂ26

"Aia MarÃÂa" (Ave Maria in Quenya) versions I-IV, pp. 26Ã¢ÂÂ36

"Alcar i Ataren" (Gloria Patri in Quenya), pp, 36Ã¢ÂÂ38

2002 "Words of Joy: Five Catholic Prayers in Quenya (Part Two), Vinyar Tengwar 44:

"Litany of Loreto" in Quenya, pp. 11Ã¢ÂÂ20.

"OrtÃÂrielyanna" (Sub tuum praesidium in Quenya), pp. 5Ã¢ÂÂ11

"Alcar mi tarmenel na Erun" (Gloria in Excelsis Deo in Quenya), pp. 31Ã¢ÂÂ38.

"Ae Adar NÃÂn" (Pater Noster in Sindarin) Vinyar Tengwar 44, pp. 21Ã¢ÂÂ30.

2003 "Early Qenya Fragments", Parma Eldalamberon 14.

2003 "Early Qenya Grammar", Parma Eldalamberon 14.

2003 "The Valmaric Scripts", Parma Eldalamberon 14.

2004 "SÃÂ Qente Feanor and Other Elvish Writings", edited by Smith, Gilson, Wynne, and Welden, Parma Eldalamberon 15.

2005 "Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals (Part One)." Edited by Patrick H. Wynne. Vinyar Tengwar 47, pp, 3Ã¢ÂÂ43.

2005 "Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals (Part Two)." Edited by Patrick H. Wynne. Vinyar Tengwar 48, pp, 4Ã¢ÂÂ34.

2006 "Pre-FÃÂ«anorian Alphabets", Part 1, edited by Smith, Parma Eldalamberon 16.

2006 "Early Elvish Poetry: Oilima Markirya, Nieninqe and Earendel", edited by Gilson, Welden, and Hostetter, Parma Eldalamberon 16

2006 "Qenya Declensions", "Qenya Conjugations", "Qenya Word-lists", edited by Gilson, Hostetter, Wynne, Parma Eldalamberon 16

2007 "Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals (Part Three)." Edited by Patrick H. Wynne. Vinyar Tengwar 49, pp, 3Ã¢ÂÂ37.

2007 "Five Late Quenya Volitive Inscriptions." Vinyar Tengwar 49, pp, 38Ã¢ÂÂ58.

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", edited by Gilson, Smith and Wynne, Parma Eldalamberon 18.

2009 "Pre-FÃÂ«anorian 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 "The "TÃÂºrin Wrapper"", Vinyar Tengwar 50

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 FÃÂ«anorian Alphabet, Part 1", Parma Eldalamberon 22.

2015 "Quenya Verb Structure", Parma Eldalamberon 22.

2024 "The FÃÂ«anorian Alphabet, Part 2", Parma Eldalamberon 23.

2024 "Eldarin Pronouns", Parma Eldalamberon 23.

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, . 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