A selection of J. R. R. Tolkien's work This is a list of all the published works of the English writer andphilologist J. R. R. Tolkien , including workspublished posthumously .
The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers The Return of the King The Book of Lost Tales 1 The Book of Lost Tales 2 The Lays of Beleriand The Shaping of Middle-earth The Lost Road and Other Writings The Return of the Shadow The Lord of the Rings vol. 1) (1988)The Treason of Isengard The Lord of the Rings vol. 2) (1989)The War of the Ring The Lord of the Rings vol. 3) (1990)Sauron Defeated The Lord of the Rings vol. 4) (1992) includingThe Notion Club Papers Morgoth's Ring The War of the Jewels The Peoples of Middle-earth 1945 "Leaf by Niggle " (short story), published inThe Dublin Review 1945The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun The Welsh Review 1949Farmer Giles of Ham 1953The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son alliterative verse), published with the accompanying essaysBeorhtnoth's Death andOfermod , inEssays and Studies by members of theEnglish Association , volume 6. 1964Tree and Leaf On Fairy-Stories Leaf by Niggle 1966The Tolkien Reader The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son On Fairy-Stories Leaf by Niggle Farmer Giles of Ham The Adventures of Tom Bombadil 1967Smith of Wootton Major chapbook Unless stated otherwise, the years indicate the date of composition. The poem names are fromThe Hobbit The Lord of the Rings The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien The History of Middle-earth The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien
Morning Song 1910-15The Dale-lands 1910-14Completorium 1910-15Wood-sunshine: Wood-Elves Dance 1910-14Meremenna Symbel (The Sirens Feast) 1910-?14The Battle of the Eastern Field 1911A Fragment of an Epic: Before Jerusalem Richard Makes an End of Speech 1911-14The New Lemminkainen 1911Lemminkainen Goeth to the Fords of Oxen 1911Valedictory 1911-?15Darkness on the Road 1911-15Sunset in a Town 1911The Horns of Ylmir 1912-17Outside 1913-14Magna Dei Gloria (Warwick) 1914-15Éalá! Éarendel Engla Beorhtast! (The Book of Lost Tales Part Two The Bidding of the Minstrel, from The Lay of Eärendel (The Book of Lost Tales Part Two The Mermaid's Flute from 'The Lay of Earendel' 1914-17Dark 1914-?24Ferrum et Sanguis: 1914 1914Sparrow Song 1914-15As Two Fair Trees 1915-c . 1945The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon 1915-62The Two Riders 1915-?25May-day 1915-23Goblin Feet c . 1923The Little House of Lost Play: Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva (The Book of Lost Tales Part One Tinfang Warble (The Book of Lost Tales Part One The City of the Gods (The Book of Lost Tales Part One The Shores of Faery 1915-?25Princess Mee 1915-62Tha Eadigan Saelidan: The Happy Mariners 1915-?40The Horns of the Host of Doriath 1915-c . 1930The Swallow, and the Traveller on the Plains [ 5] Empty Chapel ?1915A Song of Aryador 1915Dark Are the Clouds about the North 1915Elf Alone 1915-18The Trees of Kortirion 1915-?62Narqelion 1915-16The Pool of Forgetfulness 1915-c . 1920Over Old Hills and Far Away 1916-27The Song of Eriol (The Book of Lost Tales Part Two Eruman beneath the Stars 1916-c . 1924The Lonely Isle 1916-c . 1927"There once was a dashing 'Two-lieut':" 1916 Once upon a Time 1916-64The Thatch of Poppies 1916-c . 1924The Forest-walker 1916-?24Stella Vespertina 1916-?1950sAn Ode Inspired by Intimations of the Approach of Early Morning Tea 1916-c . 1927G.B.S.' 1916-?24"Ye laggard woodlands and ye slumbrous brakes" ?1917 Companions of the Rose 1917-?24The Grey Bridge of Tavrobel 1917-?27"I stood upon an empty shore before the sun was born" ?1917 The Brothers-in-Arms 1918-c . 1920A Rime for My Boy 1918The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late A Rhyme Royal upon Easter Morning ?1919-c . 1950The Ruined Enchanter: A Fairy Ballad ?1919-c . 1927The Motor-cyclists ?1919As Light as Leaf on Linden-tree ?1919-54Bummsdrápa (c . 1920)Nieninque ?1921-?55The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin ?1921-?25The Lay of the Children of Húrin (begun in 1920 or earlier, continued to 1925) (The Lays of Beleriand Winter comes to Nargothrond ?1921-?25The Clerkes Compleinte ?1922-c . 1925The Hoard ?1922-61Enigmata Saxonica Nuper Inventa Duo ?1923"úþwita sceal ealdgesægenum " 1923 The Flight of the Noldoli from Valinor (The Lays of Beleriand Moonshine: Verses in a Medieval Measure 1923-c . 1927The Song of Ælfwine on seeing the uprising of Eärendil 1924-c . 1955Lines Composed in a Village Inn on an Evening of Extraordinary Liquid Beauty 1924-?c . 1950From One to Five (Songs for the Philologists c . 1924Smakkabagms c . 1924Ruddoc Hana (Songs for the Philologists c . 1924Ides Ælfscýne (Songs for the Philologists c . 1924[ a] Bagmē Blōma Songs for the Philologists c . 1924[ a] Éadig Béo þu! (Songs for the Philologists c . 1924[ a] Ofer Wídne Gársecg (Songs for the Philologists c . 1924[ a] I Sat upon a Bench (Songs for the Philologists c . 1924The Stone Troll (Songs for the Philologists The Adventures of Tom Bombadil c . 1924-62Frenchmen Froth (Songs for the Philologists c . 1924Two Little Schemes: Lit' and Lang' (Songs for the Philologists c . 1924All Hail! c . 1924The Lion Is Loud and Proud c . 1924Lay of Leithian (The Lays of Beleriand c . 1949 or 50"Ir Ithil ammen Eruchín " 1925-c . 1949 or 50 "Death to light, to law, to love!" 1925-c . 1949 or 50 "He chanted a song of wizardry," 1925-c . 1949 or 50 Shadowland ?1926-c . 1955The Mewlips ?1927-61 or 62Adventures in Unnatural History and Medieval Metres, being the Freaks of Fisiologus Reginhardus, the Fox ?1927Monoceros, the Unicorn ?1927Fastitocalon Oliphaunt Syx Mynet (Songs for the Philologists Lá, Húru (Songs for the Philologists Natura Apis: Morali Ricardi Eremite (Songs for the Philologists The Hills Are Old ?1928-?61 or ?62Natura Formice (et Significacio Simul) ?1928A Song of Bimble Bay ?1928Progress in Bimble Town ?1928Glip ?1928Perry-the-Winkle: A Nursery Rhyme in the House of Master Samwise ?1928-61Old Grabbler ?1928The Dragon's Visit to Upper Bimble ?1928-64"Chip the glasses and crack the plates!" "Dwarf-songs" "Roll-roll-roll-roll," "O! What are you doing," Elvish Song in Rivendell Bilbo's Walking Song The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien c . 1928-48The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun Welsh Review ) ?1929-41Bealuwérig c . 1930The Lay of Beowulf c . 1930Hengest c . 1930The Derelicts c . 1930Brýdleoþ 1930The Adventures of Tom Bombadil c . 1931-62Monday Morning c . 1931-4The Last Ark c . 1931-?61 or ?62Éarendel at the Helm ?1931"Dir avosaith a gwaew hinar" ?1931 The Last of the Old Gods ?1931Bilbo's Last Song (at the Grey Havens) c . 1960Errantry c . 1931-62The Short Lay of Eärendel: Eärendillinwë c . 1931-62The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son The Children of Húrin (rhyming couplets) ?1931 or ?32Völsungakviða en nýja eða Sigurðarkviða en mesta Guðrúnarkviða en nýja eða Dráp Niflunga The Prophecy of the Sibyl ?1931 or ?32Bleak Heave the Billows c . 1932The Sea-Bell c . 1932 or 33-1961Quare Fremunt Omnes Gentes 1932Mythopoeia Tree and Leaf [ b] The Merryman c . 1933A Cherry with No Stone c . 1933Incipit Visio Petri Aratoris de Doworst ?1933-53The Last Ship ?1933-62The Wanderers: A Moral Lay c . 1935"When little Louis came to stay" 1935 "Monath módaes lust mith meriflóda" ?1936 or ?37-?1946 "Ilu Ilúvatar en kárẹ eldain a fírimoin" ?1936 or ?37 Lay of King Sheave The Lost Road and Other Writings Sauron Defeated Shadow-Bride ?1936-62Noel ?1936Ring-verse (The Lord of the Rings "walking-songs " (The Lord of the Rings A Elbereth Gilthoniel 1938-54"bath-songs" 1938-54 "Farewell we call to hearth and hall!" 1938-54 "Tom Bombadil's songs" 1938-54 "Cold be hand and heart and bone," 1938-54 "All that is gold does not glitter," 1938-54 The Fall of Gil-galad 1938-54I Sit beside the Fire and Think 1938-54In Moria, in Khazad-dûm! 1938-54Lay of Nimrodel 1938-54Galadriel's Song 1938-54Namárië 1938-54Song of Boromir 1938-54In the Willow-meads of Tasarinan 1938-54The Song of the Ent and the Entwife 1938-54"Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing?" 1938-54 "Over the land there lies a long shadow," 1938-54 "From dark Dunharrow in the dim morning" 1938-54 "We heard of the horns in the hills ringing" 1938-54 "In western lands beneath the Sun" Rhyme (The Father Christmas Letters A Closed Letter to Andrea Charicoryides Surnamed Polygrapheus, Logothete of the Theme of Geodesia in the Empire, Bard of the Court of Camelot, Malleus Malitiarium, Inclinga Sum Sometimes Known as Charles Williams 1943Imram (Time and Tide ;Sauron Defeated c . 1945-55Elvish translations ofCatholic prayers (edited by Wynne, Smith,Hostetter inVinyar Tengwar Oath of Fëanor Scatha the Worm c . 1954"Wilt thou learn the lore" Cat ?1956You Walk on Grass Domine defende nos contra hos Motores bos! (The Bovadium Fragments: together with The Origin of Bovadium c . 1957-60 (title taken fromThe Motor Bus A. D. Godley )When winter first begins to bite "Loä yukainen avar Anduinë sí valútier: " To the University of Oxford Utch! A Gardener's Secrets The Complaint of Mîm the Dwarf 1961 or 62Bombadil Goes Boating 1962Rosalind Ramage Three Children "Where the riming rune-tree blows," "Though all things fail & come to naught," "No longer fear champagne," "My heart is not in this land where I live:" "As you must admit," "'At last the time has come,' he said," For W. H. A. (Shenandoah ) ?1967Academic and other works [ edit ] 1919–1920 contributions to theOxford English Dictionary The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary 1922A Middle English Vocabulary Oxford ,Clarendon Press , 168 pp. 1925Sir Gawain and the Green Knight E.V. Gordon ,Oxford University Press , 211 pp.; Revised edition 1967,Oxford ,Clarendon Press , 232 pp. 1925Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography The Review of English Studies 1925The Devil's Coach Horses The Review of English Studies volume 1, no, 3, pp, 331–336 . 1929Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad Essays and Studies by members of the English Association 1932The Name 'Nodens' Nodens , published inReport on the Excavation of the Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire , Oxford, University Press for The Society of Antiquaries. 1932–1934Sigelwara Land I andII , inMedium Aevum , Oxford, volume 1, no, 3 (December 1932), pp, 183–196 and volume 3, no, 2 (June 1934), pp, 95–111. 1934Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale Transactions of the Philological Society Hengwrt manuscript into textual criticism ofChaucer 'sThe Canterbury Tales 1937Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics Beowulf criticism) 1939The Reeve's Tale: version prepared for recitation at the 'summer diversions' 1939On Fairy-Stories Andrew Lang lecture ) – concerning Tolkien's philosophy on fantasy, this lecture was a shortened version of an essay later published in full in 1947. 1940Prefatory Remarks on Prose Translation of "Beowulf" Clark Hall 'sBeowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment , Revised edition 1940, pp.ix-xliii, London,George Allen & Unwin (later published as the essayOn Translating Beowulf 1944Sir Orfeo 1947On Fairy-Stories 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 1939Andrew Lang lecture . 1953Ofermod andBeorhtnoth's Death , two essays published with the poemThe Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son inEssays and Studies by members of the English Association , volume 6. 1953Middle English "Losenger": Sketch of an etymological and semantic enquiry , published inEssais de philologie moderne: Communications présentées au Congrès International de Philologie Moderne (1951) , Les Belles Lettres. 1958The Old English Apollonius of Tyre , Oxford University Press – editorial prefatory note 1962Ancrene Wisse : The English Text of the Ancrene RiwleOxford University Press . 1963English and Welsh Angles and Britons: O'Donnell Lectures , University of Cardiff Press. 1964 Introduction toTree and Leaf Leaf by Niggle On Fairy-Stories 1966 Contributions to theJerusalem Bible lexicographer ) 1966 Foreword to the Second Edition ofThe Lord of the Rings allegory . 1966Tolkien on Tolkien (autobiographical) 1969The Rivers and Beacon-Hills of Gondor [ c] Posthumous publications [ edit ] For essays and text fragments by Tolkien published posthumously in academic publications and forums, see
Tolkien research .
1975 Translations ofSir Gawain and the Green Knight Pearl Sir Orfeo 1976The Father Christmas Letters Baillie Tolkien , a daughter-in-law of Tolkien 1980Poems and Stories The Adventures of Tom Bombadil The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son On Fairy-Stories Leaf by Niggle Farmer Giles of Ham Smith of Wootton Major 1981The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien Humphrey Carpenter ) 1981The Old English "Exodus" Text, translation and commentary by J. R. R. Tolkien; edited byJoan Turville-Petre . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1982Finn and Hengest : The Fragment and the Episode 1982Mr. Bliss 1983The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays 1995J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator Tolkien's artwork 1998Roverandom 2002A Tolkien Miscellany – (a compilation ofSmith of Wootton Major Farmer Giles of Ham The Adventures of Tom Bombadil Tree and Leaf Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ,Pearl andSir Orfeo ) 2002Beowulf and the Critics Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics together with two drafts of the longer essay from which it was condensed) 2008Tales from the Perilous Realm Roverandom Farmer Giles of Ham The Adventures of Tom Bombadil Smith of Wootton Major Leaf by Niggle On Fairy-Stories 2009The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún 2013The Fall of Arthur narrative poem aboutKing Arthur of Britain)[ 6] 2014Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary [ 7] 2014 "The Book of Jonah", his translation prior to final editing for theJerusalem Bible , inJournal of Inklings Studies 2015The Story of Kullervo Verlyn Flieger )[ 8] 2016A Secret Vice 2016The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun Welsh Review , 1945 2023The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth 2025The Bovadium Fragments: together with The Origin of Bovadium Richard Ovenden ) Constructed languages [ edit ] A large volume of Tolkien's writings onhis constructed languages , primarily theElvish languages such asQuenya andSindarin , have been published and annotated by scholars in the journalsVinyar Tengwar Parma Eldalamberon
1989 "The Plotz Quenya Declensions", first published in part in the fanzine Beyond Bree, and later in full inVinyar Tengwar 1991 "Koivieneni Sentence" inVinyar Tengwar 1992 "New Tengwar Inscription" inVinyar Tengwar 1992 "Liège Tengwar Inscription" inVinyar Tengwar 1993 "Two Trees Sentence" inVinyar Tengwar 1993 "Koivieneni Manuscript" inVinyar Tengwar 1993 "The Bodleian Declensions", inVinyar Tengwar 1994 "The Entu Declension" inVinyar Tengwar 1995 "Gnomish Lexicon",Parma Eldalamberon 1995 "Rúmilian Document" inVinyar Tengwar 1998 "Qenya Lexicon"Parma Eldalamberon 1998 "Osanwe-kenta , Enquiry into the communication of thought",Vinyar Tengwar 1998 "From Quendi and Eldar, Appendix D."Vinyar Tengwar 1999 "Narqelion",Vinyar Tengwar 2000 "Etymological Notes: Osanwe-kenta"Vinyar Tengwar 2000 "FromThe Shibboleth of Fëanor Vinyar Tengwar the Shibboleth of Fëanor was published inThe Peoples of Middle-earth , pp, 331–366) 2000 "Notes on Óre"Vinyar Tengwar 2000 "Merin Sentence" Tyalie Tyalieva 14, pp, 32–35 2001 "The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor" (written 1967–1969)Vinyar Tengwar 2001 "Essay on negation in Quenya"Vinyar Tengwar 2001 "Goldogrim Pronominal Prefixes"Parma Eldalamberon 2001 "Early Noldorin Grammar",Parma Eldalamberon 2002 "Words of Joy: Five Catholic Prayers in Quenya (Part One),Vinyar Tengwar "Ataremma" (Pater Noster "Aia María" (Ave Maria "Alcar i Ataren" (Gloria Patri 2002 "Words of Joy: Five Catholic Prayers in Quenya (Part Two),Vinyar Tengwar 2003 "Early Qenya Fragments",Parma Eldalamberon 2003 "Early Qenya Grammar",Parma Eldalamberon 2003 "The Valmaric Scripts",Parma Eldalamberon 2004 "Sí Qente Feanor and Other Elvish Writings", edited by Smith, Gilson, Wynne, and Welden,Parma Eldalamberon 2005 "Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals (Part One)." Edited by Patrick H. Wynne.Vinyar Tengwar 2005 "Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals (Part Two)." Edited by Patrick H. Wynne.Vinyar Tengwar 2006 "Pre-Fëanorian Alphabets", Part 1, edited by Smith,Parma Eldalamberon 2006 "Early Elvish Poetry:Oilima Markirya, Nieninqe andEarendel ", edited by Gilson, Welden, and Hostetter,Parma Eldalamberon 2006 "Qenya Declensions", "Qenya Conjugations", "Qenya Word-lists", edited by Gilson, Hostetter, Wynne,Parma Eldalamberon 2007 "Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals (Part Three)." Edited by Patrick H. Wynne.Vinyar Tengwar 2007 "Five Late Quenya Volitive Inscriptions."Vinyar Tengwar 2007 "Ambidexters Sentence",Vinyar Tengwar 2007 "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues inThe Lord of the Rings ", edited by Gilson,Parma Eldalamberon 2009 "Tengwesta Qenderinwa", edited by Gilson, Smith and Wynne,Parma Eldalamberon 2009 "Pre-Fëanorian Alphabets, Part 2",Parma Eldalamberon 2010 "Quenya Phonology",Parma Eldalamberon 2010 "Comparative Tables",Parma Eldalamberon 2010 "Outline of Phonetic Development",Parma Eldalamberon 2010 "Outline of Phonology",Parma Eldalamberon 2012 "The Quenya Alphabet",Parma Eldalamberon 2013 "The "Túrin Wrapper"",Vinyar Tengwar 2013 "Qenya: Declension of Nouns",Parma Eldalamberon 2013 "Primitive Quendian: Final Consonants",Parma Eldalamberon 2013 "Common Eldarin: Noun Structure",Parma Eldalamberon 2015 "The Fëanorian Alphabet, Part 1",Parma Eldalamberon 2015 "Quenya Verb Structure",Parma Eldalamberon 2024 "The Fëanorian Alphabet, Part 2",Parma Eldalamberon 2024 "Eldarin Pronouns",Parma Eldalamberon 1967Poems and Songs of Middle-earth ,Caedmon TC 1231 1975J. 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) 1979Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien ,George Allen & Unwin , text by Christopher Tolkien,ISBN 0047410035 1995J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator (text byWayne G. Hammond andChristina Scull ) 2011The Art of The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (text by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull) 2015The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (text by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull) ^a b c d Included inShippey, Tom .The Road to Middle-Earth ^ Republished in various editions, lately in the 1999 edition ofTree and Leaf in the UK only. ^ 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. ^ 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 . Retrieved22 October 2016 . ^ Flood, Alison (10 April 2018)."The Fall of Gondolin, 'new' JRR Tolkien book, to be published in 2018" .The Guardian . Retrieved13 April 2018 . ^ Flood, Alison (19 November 2020)."Unseen JRR Tolkien essays on Middle-earth coming in 2021" .The Guardian . Retrieved22 November 2020 . ^ "New Tolkien book: The Fall of Númenor to be published" .The Tolkien Society . 22 June 2022. Retrieved15 October 2022 .^ "Addenda and Corrigenda toThe Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien (2024) Arranged by Date " onHammond&Scull.com , note to "p. 219, ll. 16–17" under "4 September 2025" ^ "The Fall of Arthur – J. R. R. Tolkien" .HarperCollins . Archived fromthe original on 10 June 2013. Retrieved21 April 2013 .^ Flood, Alison (19 March 2014)."JRR Tolkien translation of Beowulf to be published after 90-year wait" .The Guardian ^ "JRR Tolkien's 100-year-old unpublished fantasy tale to finally see light of day" .dna . 7 June 2015.
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