Books and Works by J.R.R. Tolkien

Middle-earth related books

• The Hobbit (see also The Annotated Hobbit)
• The Lord of the Rings (published in three Volumes: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King)
• The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book
• The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle (Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien set to music by Donald Swann)

• The Silmarillion (edited by Christopher Tolkien)
• Unfinished Tales (edited and commented by Christopher Tolkien)
• The History of Middle-earth (a series consisting of 12 Volumes, edited and commented by Christopher Tolkien)
• The Book of Lost Tales 1
• The Book of Lost Tales 2
• The Lays of Beleriand
• The Shaping of Middle-earth
• The Lost Road and Other Writings
• The Return of the Shadow
• The Treason of Isengard
• The War of the Ring
• Sauron Defeated
• Morgoths Ring
• The War of the Jewels
• The Peoples of Middle-earth

A selection of published works

Novels

• "Leaf by Niggle" (in: Tree and Leaf and Tales from the Perilous Realm, etc.)
• "Farmer Giles of Ham" (also in Tales from the Perilous Realm)
• "Smith of Wootton Major" (also in: Tales from the Perilous Realm)
• "Mr Bliss"
• "Roverandom"

• "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (edited by J.R.R. Tolkien and E.V.Gordon)
• "Pearl"
• "Sir Orfeo"

• "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (in: The Monsters and the Critics)
• "On Fairy-Stories?" (in: Tree and Leaf and The Monsters and the Critics)
• "English and Welsh" (also in: The Monsters and the Critics)
• "Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford" (in: The Monsters and the Critics)

• "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelms Son" (in Tree and Leaf, etc.)
• "Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode"

A selection of other posthumously published books

• Tree and Leaf (first edition only contained "On Fairy-Stories?" and "Leaf by Niggle")
• The Tolkien Reader (a reprint in one volume of "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth...", "On Fairy-Stories?", "Leaf by Niggle", "Farmer Giles of Ham" and "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil")
• Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham (reprint in one volume with illustrations by Pauline Baynes)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo (translated into modern English; edited and with a preface by Christopher Tolkien)
• The Father Christmas Letters (edited by Baillie Tolkien)
• {Pictures by JRR Tolkien}? (foreword and notes by Christopher Tolkien)
• {Poems and Stories}? ("The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth...", "On Fairy-Stories?", "Leaf by Niggle", "Farmer Giles of Ham" and "Smith of Wootton Major"; reprint in one volume with old and new illustrations by Pauline Baynes)
• The Letters of JRR Tolkien (edited by Humphrey Carpenter with the assistance of Christopher Tolkien)
• Mr Bliss
• Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode (edited by Alan Bliss)
• The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
• Tales from the Perilous Realm
• Roverandom, edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond
• Beowulf and the Critics, edited by Michael D.C. Drout

Tolkien- and/or Middle-earth related books by other authors

Middle-earth Encyclopaediae

• The Complete Guide to Middle-earth by Robert Foster
• A Tolkien Bestiary by David Day
• The Complete Tolkien Companion by J. E. A. Tyler
• The Tolkien and Middle-Earth Handbook by Colin Duriez

• JRR Tolkien-A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
• The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter
• JRR Tolkien-The Man Who Created the Lord of the Rings by Michael Coren
• JRR Tolkien-Artist and Illustrator by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
• Tolkien and the Great War by John Garth

• The Road to Middle-earth by Tom Shippey
• JRR Tolkien-Author of the Century by Tom Shippey
• Splintered Light by Verlyn Flieger
• A Question of Time by Verlyn Flieger
• J R R Tolkien This Far Land by Robert Giddings, ed.
• Tolkiens Legendarium edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter
• JRR Tolkien-A Descriptive Bibliography edited by Wayne G. Hammond and Douglas A. Anderson
• Tolkien Man and Myth by Joseph Pearce
• Myth and Middle-earth by Leslie Ellen Jones

• An Introduction to Elvish by Jim Allan
• The Languages of Tolkiens Middle-earth by Ruth. S. Noel

• The Atlas of Tolkiens Middle-earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad
• Journeys of Frodo by Barbara Strachey
• The Map of Tolkiens Middle-earth by Brian Sibley and John Howe
• The Map of Tolkiens Beleriand and the Lands to the North by Brian Sibley and John Howe
• There And Back Again The Map of the Hobbit by Brian Sibley and John Howe