Middle-earth

J.R.R. Tolkien

• Author page: biographical sketch, bibliography, quotes, links

(Auto-) Biographical Works

• Humphrey Carter: J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
• Humphrey Carter: The Inklings
• Philip Zaleski: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings

Middle-earth

The Books

• The Silmarillion (1977)
• The Hobbit (1937) – Audiobook performed by Andy Serkis
• The Lord of the Rings – Audiobooks performed by Andy Serkis
  • The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
  • The Two Towers (1954)
  • The Return of The King (1955)
• Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth (1980)
• Tales from the Perilous Realm 1997
  • Roverandom
  • Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)
  • The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and other Verses from The Red Book (1962)
  • Smith of Wootton Major (1967)
  • Leaf by Niggle (1945)
  • On Fairy-Stories (1947)
• The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle (1967)
• Bilbo’s Last Song (1974 / 1990)
• Poems from The Lord of the Rings (1994)
• The History of Middle-Earth
  • The Book of Lost Tales, Part One (1983)
  • The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two (1984)
  • The Lays of Beleriand (1985)
  • The Shaping of Middle-Earth: The Quenta, the Ambarkanta and the Annals (1986)
  • The Lost Road and Other Writings (1987)
  • The History of the Lord of the Rings
    • The Return of the Shadow (1988)
    • The Treason of Isengard (1989)
    • The War of the Ring (1990)
    • Sauron Defeated (1992)
  • The Later Silmarillion
    • Morgoth’s Ring (1993)
    • The War of the Jewels (1994)
  • The Peoples of Middle-Earth (1996)
  • The History of Middle-Earth Index (2002)
• Tales of Middle-earth
  • Beren and Lúthien (2017)
  • The Children of Húrin (2007)
  • The Fall of Gondolin (2018)

The Movies

• The Hobbit
  • An Unexpected Journey
  • The Desolation of Smaug
  • The Battle of the Five Armies
• The Lord of the Rings
  • The Fellowship of the Ring
  • The Two Towers
  • The Return of the King

The World of Arda and Middle-earth

• People and Peoples
• Geography
• Timeline
• Creatures
• Shiny Objects
• Weaponry
• Wars and Battles

Supplemental Reading

• Robert Foster: The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth 
• Karen Wynn Fonstad: The Atlas of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth
• Jim Allan: An Introduction to Elvish
• Andy Serkis: Gollum: How We Made Movie Magic

Online Resources

• The Tolkien Society
• Tolkien Gateway
• The Encyclopedia of Arda
• The Tolkien Forum
• One Wiki to Rule Them All
• TheOneRing.net
• Tolkien Forums
• LOTR Project
• The Tolkienist.com
• The Elvish Linguistic Fellowship
• Lord of the Rings Online

Other Works

Nonseries Novels and Tales

• Sir Gawain & The Green Knight (1925)
• Tree and Leaf (1964)
  – Reprints Tolkien’s lecture On Fairy-Stories and his short story Leaf by Niggle.
• The Father Christmas Letters (1976)
  A/K/A: Letters from Father Christmas
• Mr. Bliss (1982)

Poetry

• Songs for the Philologists (1936)
• The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945 / 2016)
• Poems and Stories (1980)
• Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien (1993)
• The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009)
• The Fall of Arthur (2013)

Translations from Middle English

• The Reeve’s Tale (1939)
  – Adapted from Chaucer.
• Sir Orfeo (1944)
• Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle (1962)
  – Rule for a female medieval religious order.
• The Old English “Exodus” (1981)
• Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode (1982)
• Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary (2014)

Essays, Scholarly Works, Correspondence

• A Middle English Vocabulary (1922)
• The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981)
• The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (1983)
  A/K/A: Beowulf and the Critics
• ‘Ósanwe-kenta: “Enquiry into the Communication of Thought”‘ (1998)
• The Story of Kullervo (2015)
• A Secret Vice (2016)

Pictures and Drawings

• Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien (1979)

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