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Select Bibliography of the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien J.R.R. Tolkien: A Select Bibliography This is not a comprehensive listing of Tolkien’s works. For a more complete list, please see the following: Hammond, Wayne G. and Douglas Anderson. J.R.R. Tolkien: a Descriptive Bibliography. Winchester, UK: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1993. BOOKS RELATING TO MIDDLE-EARTH • The Hobbit: or There and Back Again. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1937. • The Fellowship of the Ring: Pt. I of The Lord of the Rings. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1954. • The Two Towers: Pt. II of The Lord of the Rings. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1954. • The Return of the King: Pt. III of The Lord of the Rings. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1955. • The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1962. • The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle. (text by J.R.R. Tolkien, music by Donald Swann) Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1967. • Bilbo's Last Song. Allen and Unwin, London, 1974. [As a poster; in book-form: Unwin Hyman, London, 1990.] • The Silmarillion. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1977. • Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1979. • Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1980. • The Children of Húrin. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007. • The History of the Hobbit. Ed. John D. Rateliff. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. 2 volumes titled Mr. Baggins and The Return to Bag End. Contains manuscript material of The Hobbit. Later published in one-volume editions in 2011 and 2015. • Beren and Lúthien. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. • The Fall of Gondolin. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. The History of Middle-earth series: 1. The Book of Lost Tales, Part I. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1983. 2. The Book of Lost Tales, Part II. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1984. 3. The Lays of Beleriand. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1985. 4. The Shaping of Middle-earth. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1986. 5. The Lost Road and Other Writings. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Unwin Hyman, London, 1987. 6. The Return of the Shadow. Christopher Tolkien. Unwin Hyman, London, 1988. 7. The Treason of Isengard. Christopher Tolkien. Unwin Hyman, London, 1989. 8. The War of the Ring. Christopher Tolkien. Unwin Hyman, London, 1990. 9. Sauron Defeated. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. HarperCollins, London, 1992. Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL The History of Middle-earth series (continued): 10. Morgoth's Ring. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. HarperCollins, London, 1993. 11. The War of the Jewels. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. HarperCollins, London, 1994. 12. The Peoples of Middle-earth. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. HarperCollins, London, 1996. OTHER WORKS • A Middle English Vocabulary. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1922. Republished as: A Middle English Reader and A Middle English Vocabulary. Dover, 2005. • Songs for the Philologists. Privately printed in the Department of English, University College, London, 1936. (Contains mainly humorous verses in Gothic, Old English, etc., by Tolkien, E.V. Gordon and others.) • Farmer Giles of Ham. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1949. • Tree and Leaf. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1964. (Reprints Tolkien's lecture "On Fairy-Stories" and his short story "Leaf by Niggle".) New edition, incorporating "Mythopoeia", Unwin Hyman, London, 1988. • The Tolkien Reader. Ballantine, New York, 1966. (Contains "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorthelm's Son", Tree and Leaf, Farmer Giles of Ham, and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.) • Smith of Wootton Major. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1967. • The Father Christmas Letters. Ed. Baillie Tolkien. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1976. • Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. Ed. Humphrey Carpenter with Christopher Tolkien. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1981; reissued with new index by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, HarperCollins, London, 1999. • Mr. Bliss. George Allen & Unwin, London, 1982. • The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1983. (related: Beowulf and the Critics, 2011) • Roverandom. Ed. Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond. HarperCollins, London, 1998. • The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin, 2009. • The Fall of Arthur. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin, 2013. • Story of Kullervo. Ed. Verlyn Flieger. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2015. • The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun: Together with the Corrigan Poems. Ed. Verlyn Flieger. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. • A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages. Ed. Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. 2 WORKS EDITED OR TRANSLATIONS • 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 mediæval religious order.) • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1975. (Contains Tolkien's translations of the poems given in the title.) • The Old English 'Exodus'. Ed. Joan Turville-Petre. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981. (Tolkien's translation.) • Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode. Ed. Alan Bliss. George Allen and Unwin, London, 1982. (Tolkien's translations and commentaries.) • Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. 3 .
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