J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) is the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings.

Bibliography

Fiction and poetry

See also Poems by J. R. R. Tolkien.

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• 1936 Songs for the Philologists, with E.V. Gordon et al.
• 1937 The Hobbit or There and Back Again
• 1945 Leaf by Niggle (short story)
• 1945 The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, published in Welsh Review
• 1949 Farmer Giles of Ham (medieval fable)
• 1953 The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son published with the essay Ofermod
• The Lord of the Rings
• 1954 The Fellowship of the Ring: being the first part of The Lord of the Rings
• 1954 The Two Towers: being the second part of The Lord of the Rings
• 1955 The Return of the King: being the third part of The Lord of the Rings
• 1962 The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book
• 1967 The Road Goes Ever On, with Donald Swann
• 1964 Tree and Leaf (On Fairy-Stories and Leaf by Niggle in book form)
• 1966 The Tolkien Reader (The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorthelm's Son, On Fairy Stories, Leaf by Niggle, Farmer Giles of Ham' and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil)
• 1966 Tolkien on Tolkien (autobiographical)
• 1967 Smith of Wootton Major

Academic works

• 1922 A Middle English Vocabulary
• 1924 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (with E. V. Gordon)
• 1925 Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography
• 1925 The Devil's Coach Horses
• 1929 Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiohad
• 1932 The Name 'Nodens' (in: Report on the Excavation of the Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire.)
• 1932/1935 Sigelwara Land parts I and II
• 1934 The Reeve's Tale (rediscovery of dialect humour, introducing the Hengwrt manuscript into textual criticism of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales)
• 1936 ' (lecture on Beowulf criticism)
• 1939 On Fairy-Stories (lecture on Tolkien's philosophy on fantasy)
• 1944 Sir Orfeo (an edition of the medieval poem)
• 1947 On Fairy-Stories (essay, very central for understanding Tolkien's views on fantasy)
• 1953 Ofermod, published with the poem The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son
• 1953 Middle English "Losenger"
• 1962 Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle
• 1963 English and Welsh
• 1966 Jerusalem Bible (contributing translator and lexicographer)

Posthumous publications

See Tolkien research for essays and text fragments by Tolkien published in academic publications and forums.

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• 1975 Translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl (poem) and Sir Orfeo
• 1976 The Father Christmas Letters
• 1977 The Silmarillion
• 1979 Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 1980 Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth
• 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 (eds. Christopher Tolkien and Humphrey Carpenter)
• 1981 The Old English Exodus Text
• 1982 Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode
• 1982 Mr. Bliss
• 1983 The Monsters and the Critics (an essay collection)
• ' (1936)
• On Translating Beowulf (1940)
• On Fairy-Stories (1947)
• A Secret Vice (1930)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• English and Welsh (1955)
• 1983–1996 The History of Middle-Earth:
  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 an edition of 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)
• Index (2002)
• 1995 ' (a compilation of Tolkien's art)
• 1998 Roverandom

Audio recordings

• 1967 Poems and Songs of Middle-Earth, Caedmon TC 1231
• 1975 JRR 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)