
Introductory post HERE
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
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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