This is a list of all the published works of the English writer andphilologistJ. R. R. Tolkien, including workspublished posthumously.

• 1937The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
• 1954–1955The Lord of the Rings
  1. The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
  2. The Two Towers (1954)
  3. The Return of the King (1955)

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

• 1974Bilbo's Last Song (at the Grey Havens)
• 1975 "Guide to the Names inThe Lord of the Rings" (edited version) published inA Tolkien Compass byJared Lobdell. Written for use by translators ofThe Lord of the Rings, a full version, re-titled "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings," was published in 2005 inThe Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion byWayne G. Hammond andChristina Scull
• 1977The Silmarillion edited byChristopher Tolkien with the assistance ofGuy Gavriel Kay.
• 1980Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth edited by Christopher Tolkien
• 1983–1996The History of Middle-earth compiled and edited by Christopher Tolkien (a combined index of the series was published in 2002):
  1. The Book of Lost Tales Part One (1983)
  2. The Book of Lost Tales Part Two (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 ofThe Lord of the Rings vol. 1) (1988)
  7. The Treason of Isengard (The History ofThe Lord of the Rings vol. 2) (1989)
  8. The War of the Ring (The History ofThe Lord of the Rings vol. 3) (1990)
  9. Sauron Defeated (The History ofThe Lord of the Rings vol. 4) (1992) includingThe Notion Club Papers
  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)
• 2005 "Guide to the Names inThe Lord of the Rings" (full version) published inThe Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion byWayne G. Hammond andChristina Scull. Re-titled to "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings" in this book. Written for use by translators ofThe Lord of the Rings; an edited version was Lobdell 1975 (above).
• 2007The Children of Húrin edited by Christopher Tolkien
• 2007The History of The Hobbit byJohn D. Rateliff – contains substantial text fragments
• 2017Beren and Lúthien edited by Christopher Tolkien^[1]
• 2018The Fall of Gondolin edited by Christopher Tolkien^[2]
• 2021The Nature of Middle-earth edited byCarl F. Hostetter^[3]
• 2022The Fall of Númenor edited byBrian Sibley^[4]
• 2024The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien edited byChristina Scull andWayne G. Hammond

• 1945 "Leaf by Niggle" (short story), published inThe Dublin Review
• 1945The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (poem), published inThe Welsh Review
• 1949Farmer Giles of Ham (medieval fable)
• 1953The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (a play written inalliterative 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 andLeaf by Niggle in book form)
• 1966The Tolkien Reader (The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son,On Fairy-Stories,Leaf by Niggle,Farmer Giles of Ham, andThe Adventures of Tom Bombadil)
• 1967Smith of Wootton Major (short story), published as an illustratedchapbook

• The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book
  • The Adventures of Tom Bombadilc. 1931-62
  • Bombadil Goes Boating
  • Errantryc. 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^[a]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-Bellc. 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
  • Bealuwérigc. 1930
  • Monday Morningc. 1931-4
  • Scatha the Wormc. 1954
  • The Complaint of Mîm the Dwarf 1961 or 62
• The Lays of Beleriand
  • As Light as Leaf on Linden-tree^[b] ?1919-54
  • The Lay of the Children of Húrin (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 Eruchín" 1925-c. 1949 or 50
  • "He chanted a song of wizardry," 1925-c. 1949 or 50
• Songs for the Philologists
  • From One to Fivec. 1924
  • Ruddoc Hanac. 1924
  • Ides Ælfscýnec. 1924^[c]
  • Bagmē Blōmac. 1924^[c]
  • Éadig Béo þu!c. 1924^[c]
  • Ofer Wídne Gársecgc. 1924^[c]
  • I Sat upon a Benchc. 1924
  • Frenchmen Frothc. 1924
  • Two Little Schemes: Lit' and Langc. 1924
  • Syx Mynet ?1928
  • Lá, Húru ?1928
  • Natura Apis: Morali Ricardi Eremite ?1928
• The Hobbit
  • Bilbo's Walking Song^[b][d]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 Eärendel: Eärendillinwë^[e]c. 1931-62
  • "walking-songs" 1938-54
• The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son 1931-53
• The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
  • Völsungakviða en nýja eða Sigurðarkviða en mesta
  • Guðrúnarkviða en nýja eða Dráp Niflunga
  • The Prophecy of the Sibyl ?1931 or ?32
• Mythopoeia (Tree and Leaf)^[f] ?1932 or ?33-?35
• The Bovadium Fragments: together with The Origin of Bovadium
  • Domine defende nos contra hos Motores bos!^[g]c. 1957-60
  • FullLatin translation ofA. D. Godley'sThe Motor Bus

• 1919–1920 contributions to theOxford English Dictionary, described inThe Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary
• 1922A Middle English Vocabulary,Oxford,Clarendon Press, 168 pp.
• 1925Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, co-edited withE.V. Gordon,Oxford University Press, 211 pp.; Revised edition 1967,Oxford,Clarendon Press, 232 pp.
• 1925Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography, published inThe Review of English Studies, volume 1, no, 2, pp, 210–215.
• 1925The Devil's Coach Horses, published inThe Review of English Studies,volume 1, no, 3, pp, 331–336.
• 1929Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad, published inEssays and Studies by members of the English Association, Oxford, volume 14, pp, 104–126.
• 1932The Name 'Nodens', concerning the nameNodens, 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 partsI 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, inTransactions of the Philological Society, London, pp, 1–70 (rediscovery of dialect humour, introducing theHengwrt manuscript into textual criticism ofChaucer'sThe Canterbury Tales)
• 1937Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, London, Humphrey Milford, 56 pp. (publication of his 1936 lecture onBeowulf criticism)
• 1939The Reeve's Tale: version prepared for recitation at the 'summer diversions', Oxford, 14 pp.
• 1939On Fairy-Stories (1939Andrew 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", inClark 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, Oxford, The Academic Copying Office, 18 pp. (an edition of the medieval poem)
• 1947On Fairy-Stories (essay – published inEssays 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 Riwle, Early English Text Society,Oxford University Press.
• 1963English and Welsh, inAngles and Britons: O'Donnell Lectures, University of Cardiff Press.
• 1964 Introduction toTree and Leaf, with details of the composition and history ofLeaf by Niggle andOn Fairy-Stories.
• 1966 Contributions to theJerusalem Bible (as translator andlexicographer)
• 1966 Foreword to the Second Edition ofThe Lord of the Rings, with his comments on the varied reaction to his work, his motivation for writing the work, and his opinion ofallegory.
• 1966Tolkien on Tolkien (autobiographical)
• 1969The Rivers and Beacon-Hills of Gondor^[h]

• 1975 Translations ofSir Gawain and the Green Knight,Pearl andSir Orfeo
• 1976The Father Christmas Letters. Edited byBaillie Tolkien, a daughter-in-law of Tolkien
• 1980Poems and Stories (a compilation ofThe Adventures of Tom Bombadil,The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son,On Fairy-Stories,Leaf by Niggle,Farmer Giles of Ham andSmith of Wootton Major)
• 1981The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (edited by Christopher Tolkien andHumphrey 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 (an essay collection)
  • "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (1936)
  • "On TranslatingBeowulf" (1940)
  • "On Fairy-Stories" (1947)
  • "A Secret Vice" (1930)
  • "English and Welsh" (1955)
• 1995J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator – a compilation ofTolkien's artwork
• 1998Roverandom
• 2002A Tolkien Miscellany – (a compilation ofSmith of Wootton Major,Farmer Giles of Ham,The Adventures of Tom Bombadil,Tree and Leaf, and Tolkien's translations ofSir Gawain and the Green Knight,Pearl andSir Orfeo)
• 2002Beowulf 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)
• 2008Tales from the Perilous Realm (a compilation ofRoverandom,Farmer Giles of Ham,The Adventures of Tom Bombadil,Smith of Wootton Major,Leaf by Niggle andOn Fairy-Stories)
• 2009The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
• 2013The Fall of Arthur (anarrative poem aboutKing Arthur of Britain)^[5]
• 2014Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary (edited by Christopher Tolkien; includes "Sellic Spell")^[6]
• 2014 "The Book of Jonah", his translation prior to final editing for theJerusalem Bible, inJournal of Inklings Studies, 4.2: 5-9.
• 2015The Story of Kullervo (edited byVerlyn Flieger)^[7]
• 2016A Secret Vice
• 2016The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, originally published inWelsh Review, 1945
• 2023The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
• 2025The Bovadium Fragments: together with The Origin of Bovadium^[i] (edited by Christopher Tolkien, with an historical essay byRichard Ovenden)

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 andParma Eldalamberon.

• 1989 "The Plotz Quenya Declensions", first published in part in the fanzine Beyond Bree, and later in full inVinyar Tengwar 6, p, 14.
• 1991 "Koivieneni Sentence" inVinyar Tengwar 14, pp, 5–20.
• 1992 "New Tengwar Inscription" inVinyar Tengwar 21, p, 6.
• 1992 "Liège Tengwar Inscription" inVinyar Tengwar 23, p, 16.
• 1993 "Two Trees Sentence" inVinyar Tengwar 27, pp, 7–42.
• 1993 "Koivieneni Manuscript" inVinyar Tengwar 27, pp, 7–42.
• 1993 "The Bodleian Declensions", inVinyar Tengwar 28, pp, 9–34.
• 1994 "The Entu Declension" inVinyar Tengwar 36, pp, 8–29.
• 1995 "Gnomish Lexicon",Parma Eldalamberon 11.
• 1995 "Rúmilian Document" inVinyar 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 "FromThe Shibboleth of Fëanor" (written ca. 1968)Vinyar Tengwar 41, pp, 7–10 (A part ofthe Shibboleth of Fëanor was published inThe 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", 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, 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, edited by Smith,Parma Eldalamberon 16.
• 2006 "Early Elvish Poetry:Oilima Markirya, Nieninqe andEarendel", 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, 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 inThe Lord of the Rings", edited by Gilson,Parma Eldalamberon 17.
• 2009 "Tengwesta Qenderinwa", edited by 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 "The "Túrin 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 Fëanorian Alphabet, Part 1",Parma Eldalamberon 22.
• 2015 "Quenya Verb Structure",Parma Eldalamberon 22.
• 2024 "The Fëanorian Alphabet, Part 2",Parma Eldalamberon 23.
• 2024 "Eldarin Pronouns",Parma Eldalamberon 23.

• 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. 2nd edition 1992.
• 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)

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