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

Short works

1945 "Leaf by Niggle", published in The Dublin Review
1945 The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, published in The Welsh Review
1949 Farmer Giles of Ham
1953 The [Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son], 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
1966 The Tolkien Reader
1967 Smith of Wootton Major, 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 1916-64The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien
* Empty Chapel ?1915
* Goblin Feet 1915-c. 1923
* Bealuwérig ''c. 1930
* Monday Morning c''. 1931-4
* Scatha the Worm ''c. 1954
* The Complaint of Mîm the Dwarf 1961 or 62The Lays of Beleriand
* As Light as Leaf on Linden-tree ?1919-54
* The Lay of the Children of Húrin
* The Flight of the Noldoli from Valinor 1925
* Lay of Leithian 1925-c''. 1949 or 50The Silmarillion
* "Ir Ithil ammen Eruchín" 1925-c. 1949 or 50
* "He chanted a song of wizardry," 1925-c. 1949 or 50Songs for the Philologists
* From One to Five ''c. 1924
* Ruddoc Hana c''. 1924
* Ides Ælfscýne ''c. 1924
* Bagmē Blōma c''. 1924
* Éadig Béo þu! ''c. 1924
* Ofer Wídne Gársecg c''. 1924
* I Sat upon a Bench ''c. 1924
* Frenchmen Froth c''. 1924
* Two Little Schemes: Lit' and Lang ''c. 1924
* Syx Mynet ?1928
* Lá, Húru ?1928
* Natura Apis: Morali Ricardi Eremite ?1928The Hobbit
* Bilbo's Walking Song c''. 1928-48The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun ?1929-41Bilbo's Last Song (at the Grey Havens) ?1931-c. 1960The Lord of the Rings
* The Short Lay of Eärendel: Eärendillinwë ''c. 1931-62
* "walking-songs" 1938-54The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son 1931-53The 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 ?32Mythopoeia ?1932 or ?33-?35The 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

1919–1920 contributions to the Oxford English Dictionary, described in The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the [Oxford English Dictionary]
1922 ', 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 ', published in The Review of English Studies, volume 1, no, 2, pp, 210–215.
1925 The Devil's Coach Horses, published in The Review of English Studies, .
1929 Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad, published in ', Oxford, volume 14, pp, 104–126.
1932 ', 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.
1932–1934 Sigelwara Land parts and, in Medium Aevum, Oxford, volume 1, no, 3, pp, 183–196 and volume 3, no, 2, pp, 95–111.
1934 Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale, in Transactions of the Philological Society, London, pp, 1–70
1937 Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, London, Humphrey Milford, 56 pp.
1939 The Reeve's Tale: version prepared for recitation at the 'summer diversions', Oxford, 14 pp.
1939 On Fairy-Stories – concerning Tolkien's philosophy on fantasy, this lecture was a shortened version of an essay later published in full in 1947.
1940 , in Clark Hall's Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment, Revised edition 1940, pp.ix-xliii, London, George Allen & Unwin
1944 Sir Orfeo, Oxford, The Academic Copying Office, 18 pp.
1947 On Fairy-Stories – 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 présentées au Congrès International de Philologie Moderne , Les Belles Lettres.
1958 The Old English Apollonius of Tyre, Oxford University Press – 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
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
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
1981 The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
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
* "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics"
* "On Translating Beowulf
* "On Fairy-Stories"
* "A Secret Vice"
* "English and Welsh"
1995 J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator – a compilation of Tolkien's artwork
1998 Roverandom
2002 A Tolkien Miscellany –
2002 Beowulf and the Critics edited by Michael D.C. Drout
2008 Tales from the Perilous Realm
2009 The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
2013 The Fall of Arthur
2014 Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary
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
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''

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, 5–20.
1992 "New Tengwar Inscription" in Vinyar Tengwar 21, p, 6.
1992 "Liège Tengwar Inscription" in Vinyar Tengwar 23, p, 16.
1993 "Two Trees Sentence" in Vinyar Tengwar 27, pp, 7–42.
1993 "Koivieneni Manuscript" in Vinyar Tengwar 27, pp, 7–42.
1993 "The Bodleian Declensions", in Vinyar Tengwar 28, pp, 9–34.
1994 "The Entu Declension" in Vinyar Tengwar 36, pp, 8–29.
1995 "Gnomish Lexicon", Parma Eldalamberon 11.
1995 "Rúmilian Document" in Vinyar 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 "From " Vinyar Tengwar 41, pp, 7–10
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" 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, Vinyar Tengwar 43:
* "Ataremma" versions I-VI, pp. 4–26
* "Aia María" versions I-IV, pp. 26–36
* "Alcar i Ataren", pp, 36–38
2002 "Words of Joy: Five Catholic Prayers in Quenya, Vinyar Tengwar 44:
* "Litany of Loreto" in Quenya, pp. 11–20.
* "Ortírielyanna", pp. 5–11
* "Alcar mi tarmenel na Erun", pp. 31–38.
* "Ae Adar Nín" 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." Edited by Patrick H. Wynne. Vinyar Tengwar 47, pp, 3–43.
2005 "Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals." 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 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." 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 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-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.

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

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
2011 The Art of The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
2015 ''The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien''