The Tolkien Book List

This is by no means an all inclusive list of Tolkien's work. I've limited myself to primarily English language publications, but have tried to include as many works as possible, including some which may well be out of print, but are important for one reason or another.

Primary Works | Secondary Works | Scholarly Publications
Works Edited by Others | Books about Tolkien or his Work
Rare, Out-Of-Print, and Collectible

Primary Works

These are the works for which Tolkien is probably best known.

• The Hobbit
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Silmarillion

Secondary Works

I hate to use the term 'secondary' as it implies that these are in some way of lesser value than the 'primary' works. It's simply that these works may not be as familiar to the casual Tolkien reader.

• The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
• Farmer Giles of Ham
• Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode, Edited by Alan Joseph Bliss
• The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
• Leaf by Niggle
• Mr. Bliss
• The Road Goes Ever On (with Donald Swaan), [Sound recording]
• Roverandom, Edited by Christina Scull & Wayne G Hammond.
• Smith of Wootten Major
• Tales from the Perilous Realm
• Tree and Leaf

Scholarly Publications

Tolkien's various scholarly publications

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo, Edited by J.R.R. Tolkien and E.V. Gordon
• On Fairy-Stories
• The Monsters and the Critics

Works Edited by Others

History of Middle Earth series, edited by Christopher Tolkien

• The Book of Lost Tales, Part One (Volume I)
• The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two (Volume II)
• The Lays of Beleriand (Volume III)
• The Shaping of Middle-earth (Volume IV)
• The Lost Road and Other Writings (Volume V)
• The Return of the Shadow (Volume VI)
• The Treason of Isengard (Volume VII)
• The War of the Ring (Volume VIII)
• Sauron Defeated (Volume IX)
• Morgoth's Ring (Volume X)
• The War of the Jewels (Volume XI)
• The Peoples of Middle-earth (Volume XII)

Other works.

• The End of the Third Age, Edited by Christopher Tolkien
• Father Christmas Letters, Edited by Baillie Tolkien
• Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Unfinished Tales
• Carpenter, Humphrey, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, selected and edited by Humphrey Carpenter, with the assistance of Christopher Tolkien

Books about Tolkien or his Work

This is a select list of the many works about Tolkien, his life, and his career

• Birzer, Bradley J., J. R. R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth
• Carpenter, Humphrey, J.R.R. Tolkien : A Biography
• Day, David, Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopaedia
• Foster, Robert, The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth : From the Hobbit to the Silmarillion
• Hammond, Wayne G., and Christina Scull, J.R.R. Tolkien. Artist & Illustrator
• Helms, Randal, Tolkien's World
• Helms, Randal, Tolkien and the Silmarils
• Layne, Linda L. & Jane Chance (editor), Tolkien the Medievalist (Routledge Research in Medieval Religion and Culture)
• Ready, William Bernard, The Tolkien Relation; A Personal Inquiry
• Ready, William Bernard, Understanding Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings
• Strachey, Barbara, Journeys of Frodo: An Atlas of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

Rare, Out-Of-Print, and Collectible

Looking to expand your collection? Some of these may be just what you need, but be prepared to pay big bucks for some of the rare books!

• The Hobbit, [50th Anniversary Edition; gold hardcover in gold slipcase] Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. ISBN: 0395177111
  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1987. ISBN: 0395454026
• Tolkien's Hobbit - A Book of 20 Postcards
  London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997. ISBN: 0261103512
• The Hobbit, & The Lord of the Rings, [Set of four paperbacks in green slipcase]
  Features illustrations (The Hobbit) and cover art (all four volumes) by J.R.R. Tolkien
  London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996 (The Hobbit), 1997 (The Lord of the Rings)
• The Lord of the Rings, [Hardcover]
  Features 50 full color illustrations commisoned from Alan Lee to commemorate the centenary of J.R.R. Tolkien's birth. Harper Collins edition has a red cloth bookmark attached to the spine.

  · London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. ISBN: 0261102303

  · London: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. ISBN: 0395595118
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