Middle English vocabulary. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1922. (Now bound with 14th century verse and prose, ed. Kenneth Sisam, from Oxford University Press.) A glossary of Middle English words for students.
mr gawain & the green knight. j.r.r. edition tolkien and e.v. Gordon The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1925. (Now available in a second edition edited by Norman Davis.) A modern translation of the Middle English romance of the King Arthur stories.
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the hobbit: or back and forth. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1937. (There was a second edition in 1951 and a third in 1966. Reprinted many times.) His children’s famous bedtime story began on the blank page of an exam script that tells the story of bilbo baggins and the dwarves on their quest to reclaim the lonely mountain from the dragon smaug.
giles ham farmer. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1949. A mock-medieval tale of a farmer and his adventures with giants, dragons, and the machinations of court life.
the fellowship of the ring: being the first part of the lord of the rings. george allen and unwin, london, 1954. second edition, 1966. one of the most famous books in the world that continues the story of the ring that bilbo found in the hobbit and what follows for him and his nephew his frodo .
the two towers: being the second part of the lord of the rings. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1954. Second Edition, 1966. The continuation of the story that began in the Fellowship of the Ring as Frodo and his companions continue their various journeys.
the return of the king: being the third part of the lord of the rings. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1955. Second Edition, 1966. The conclusion of the story we begin in the Fellowship of the Ring and the dangers facing Frodo and others.
the adventures of tom bombadil and other verses from the red book. george allen and unwin, london, 1962. a collection of sixteen ‘hobbit’ verses and poems taken from ‘the red book of westmarch’.
ancrene wisse: the English text of the ancrene riwle. early English text society, original series no. 249. Oxford University Press, London, 1962. An edition of the rule for a female medieval religious order.
tree and leaf. george allen and unwin, london, 1964. new edition, incorporating “mythopoeia”, unwin hyman, london, 1988. reprints tolkien’s lecture “on fairy tales” and his tale “leaf by leaf”.
wootton major blacksmith. george allen and unwin, london, 1967. a short story of a small english town and its customs, its blacksmith and its journeys to the world of fairies.
the road continues: a cycle of songs. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1967; george allen and unwin, london, 1968. (second edition in 1978.) a collection of eight songs, 7 from the lord of the rings, with music by donald swann.
bilbo’s last song. george allen and unwin, london, 1974. originally produced as a poster image illustrated by pauline baynes, reprinted several times. first published in hardcover with new baynes illustrations by unwin hyman in 1990.
sir gawain and the green knight, pearl and sir orpheus. Christopher Tolkien George Allen and Unwin Edition, London, 1975. Tolkien’s Middle English translations of these poems were collected.
Santa Claus letters. baillie tolkien edition. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1976. A collection of illustrated letters from Tolkien himself from Father Christmas to his children.
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the silmarillion. christopher tolkien george allen and unwin edition, london, 1977. tolkien’s own mythological tales, collected by his son and literary executor, about the beginnings of middle-earth (and the tales of the high elves and the first ages) on which he worked and rewrote more than 50 years.
images of j.r.r. tolkien. Christopher Tolkien George Allen and Unwin Edition, London, 1979. Revised Edition, Harpercollins, London, 1992. A collection of various Tolkien illustrations and images.
unfinished tales of númenor and middle earth. Christopher Tolkien George Allen and Unwin Edition, London, 1980. More accounts from Tolkien’s Notes and Drafts of the First, Second and Third Ages of Middle-earth giving readers more background on parts of the Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion. .
letters from j.r.r. tolkien. humphrey carpenter edition with christopher tolkien. george allen and unwin, london, 1981. tolkien wrote many letters and kept copies or drafts of them, providing readers with all kinds of information about his literary creations.
Old English ‘exodus’. Joan Turville Petre edition. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981. Tolkien’s translation with notes and comments on the Old English poem.
mr. bliss. George Allen & unwin, london, 1982. a delightful illustrated story for children about one man’s misadventures.
finn and hengest: the fragment and the episode. Alan George Allen and Unwin Happiness Edition, London, 1982. Tolkien’s translations and commentaries on the Old English texts of the lectures he delivered in the 1920s.
monsters and criticism and other essays. Christopher Tolkien George Allen and Unwin Edition, London, 1983. A collection of seven Tolkien lectures or essays on Beowulf, Gawain and ‘On Fairy Tales’.
the book of lost tales, part i. Christopher Tolkien Edition The Story of Middle Earth: Vol. 1. george allen and unwin, london, 1983.
the book of lost tales, part ii. Christopher Tolkien Edition The Story of Middle Earth: Vol. 2. george allen and unwin, london, 1984.
the ballads of beleriand. Christopher Tolkien Edition The Story of Middle Earth: Vol. 3. george allen and unwin, london, 1985.
the formation of middle earth. Christopher Tolkien Edition The Story of Middle Earth: Vol. 4. george allen and unwin, london, 1986.
the lost road and other writings. Christopher Tolkien Edition The Story of Middle Earth: Vol. 5. Unwin Hyman, London, 1987.
the return of the shadow. Christopher Tolkien Edition The Story of Middle Earth: Vol. 6. Unwin Hyman, London, 1988.
isengard’s betrayal. Christopher Tolkien Edition The Story of Middle Earth: Vol. 7. Unwin Hyman, London, 1989.
the war of the ring. Christopher Tolkien Edition The Story of Middle Earth: Vol. 8. Unwin Hyman, London, 1990.
sauron defeated. Christopher Tolkien Edition The Story of Middle Earth: Vol. 9. harpercollins, london, 1992.
morgoth’s ring. Christopher Tolkien Edition The Story of Middle Earth: Vol. 10. harpercollins, london, 1993.
the war of the jewels. Christopher Tolkien Edition The Story of Middle Earth: Vol. 11. harpercollins, london, 1994.
the peoples of middle earth. Christopher Tolkien Edition The Story of Middle Earth: Vol. 12. harpercollins, london, 1996.
roverandom. christina scull and wayne hammond edition. Harpercollins, London, 1998. In the 1920s, a toy dog went missing on a seaside holiday. To cheer up his son, Tolkien created a story about the dog’s adventures.
tales of the dangerous kingdom. harpercollins, london, 1997. (contains: farmer giles of ham, the adventures of tom bombadil, “leaf by niggle” and smith of wootton major.)
the sons of húrin. Christopher Tolkien edition with illustrations by Alan Lee. harpercollins, london, 2007. christopher tolkien’s compilation of the various versions that his father wrote about the story of túrin turambar in a perfect novel.
the legend of sigurd and gudrún. Christopher Tolkien Edition Harpercollins, London 2009. Tolkien’s own versions of the story of Sigurd and his wife Gudrún, one of the great legends of northern antiquity.
the fall of arthur. Christopher Tolkien Harpercollins Edition, London 2013. A compilation of Tolkien’s versions of the story of the end of the Arthurian cycle, in which Arthur’s kingdom is destroyed by Mordred’s betrayal, with commentary and essays by Christopher Tolkien.
beowulf: a translation and commentary, along with a sellic spell. christopher tolkien harpercollins edition, london, 2014.
tolkien on fairy tales. Editing Verlyn Flieger and Douglas A. anderson harpercollins, london, 2014.
the story of kullervo. Verlyn Fleeger edition. harpercollins, london, 2015.
a secret vice: tolkien on invented languages. dimitra fimi and andrew higgins editing. harpercollins, london, 2016.
the dirge of aotrou and itroun. Verlyn Fleeger edition. harpercollins, london, 2016.
beren and luthien. christopher tolkien harpercollins edition, london, 2017.
the gondolin fall. christopher tolkien harpercollins edition, london, 2018.
the nature of middle earth. carl hostette edition. harpercollins, london, 2021.
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