Author:John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
(1892–1973)

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Works

Fiction

• Songs for the Philologists (1936), with Erich Valentine Gordon et al.
• The Hobbit or There and Back Again (1937) (U.S. copyright restored in 1996 per URAA; Copyrighted until 2033)
• Leaf by Niggle (1945)
• The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945), published in Welsh Review
• Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)
• The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953), published with the accompanying essays Beorhtnoth's Death and Ofermod, in Essays and Studies by members of the English Association, volume 6.
• The Lord of the Rings, published in three volumes:
  • The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) (Copyrighted in the U.S. until 2050; RE121069)
  • The Two Towers (1954) (Copyrighted in the U.S. until 2050; RE121070)
  • The Return of the King (1955) (Copyrighted in the U.S. until 2051; RE188500)
• The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book (1962)
• The Road Goes Ever On, with Donald Swann (1967)
• Smith of Wootton Major (1967)

Collections

• Tree and Leaf (1964)
• The Tolkien Reader (1966)

Poetry

• 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 1914
• The Bidding of the Minstrel 1914
• Goblin Feet 1915
• You and Me / and the Cottage of Lost Play 1915
• Kôr 1915, published as The City of the Gods in 1923
• Kortirion among the Trees 1915 (revised in 1937 and in 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 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 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 Lay of Leithian 1925–1931
• The Lay of Eärendel 1920s
• The Nameless Land 1926
• Adventures in Unnatural History and Medieval Metres, being the Freaks of Fisiologus 1927:

• Fastitocalon
• Iumbo

• Tinfang Warble, published in 1927, composed in 1914
• Mythopoeia, circa 1931
• 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 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
• 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
• 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 as a poster in 1974)
• 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

• A Middle English Vocabulary (1922) (transcription project)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (ed., with E. V. Gordon, 1925) (transcription project)
• "Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography" in The Review of English Studies, 1 (2) (April, 1925), pp. 210–215 (transcription project)
• "The Devil's Coach Horses" in The Review of English Studies, 1 (3) (July, 1925), pp. 331–336 (transcription project)
• "Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad" in Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association, 1 (1929), pp. 104–126 (external scan)
• The Name 'Nodens' (1932)
• Sigelwara Land parts I and II (1932-34)
• Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale (1934)
• Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics (1937)
• On Fairy-Stories (1939)
• Sir Orfeo (1944)
• Ofermod (1953)
• Beorhtnoth's Death (1953)
• Middle English "Losenger": Sketch of an etymological and semantic enquiry (1953)
• Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle (1962)
• English and Welsh (1963)
• Contributions to the Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer) (1966)
• Tolkien on Tolkien (autobiographical) (1966)

Posthumous publications

• 1975 Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings
• 1975 Translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl 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 translation and commentary by J. R. R. Tolkien; edited by Joan Turville-Petre
• 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)
• 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 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 J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator
• 1998 Roverandom
• 2002 A Tolkien Miscellany
• 2002 Beowulf and the Critics ed. Michael D.C. Drout
• 2007 The Children of Húrin
• 2008 Tales from the Perilous Realm (a compilation of Roverandom, Farmer Giles of Ham, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Leaf by Niggle and Smith of Wootton Major)
• 2009 The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
• 2013 The Fall of Arthur
• 2014 Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary (ed. Christopher Tolkien), includes short story "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
• 2017 Beren and Lúthien
• 2018 The Fall of Gondolin
• 2021 The Nature of Middle-earth (ed. Carl F. Hostetter)