Author:John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

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(1892–1973)

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English fantasy author, best known for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

Works

Fiction

Songs for the Philologists (1936), with Erich Valentine Gordon et al.
The Hobbit or There and Back Again (1937) (U.S. copyright restored in 1996 per URAA; Copyrighted until 2033)
Leaf by Niggle (1945)
The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945), published in Welsh Review
Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953), published with the accompanying essays Beorhtnoth's Death and Ofermod, in Essays and Studies by members of the English Association, volume 6.
The Lord of the Rings, published in three volumes:
- The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) (Copyrighted in the U.S. until 2050; RE121069)
- The Two Towers (1954) (Copyrighted in the U.S. until 2050; RE121070)
- The Return of the King (1955) (Copyrighted in the U.S. until 2051; RE188500)
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book (1962)
The Road Goes Ever On, with Donald Swann (1967)
Smith of Wootton Major (1967)

Collections

Tree and Leaf (1964)
The Tolkien Reader (1966)

Poetry

The Battle of the Eastern Field 1911
From the many-willow'd margin of the immemorial Thames 1913
The Voyage of Eärendel the Evening Star 1914
The Bidding of the Minstrel 1914
Goblin Feet 1915
You and Me / and the Cottage of Lost Play 1915
Kôr 1915, published as The City of the Gods in 1923
Kortirion among the Trees 1915 (revised in 1937 and in the 1960s, The Trees of Kortirion)
Over Old Hills and Far Away 1915
A Song of Aryador 1915
The Shores of Elfland 1915
Habbanan beneath the Stars 1916
The Sorrowful City 1916
The Song of Eriol 1917
The Horns of Ulmo 1917
The Happy Mariners, published in 1920, composed in 1915
The Children of Húrin (begun in 1920 or earlier, continued to 1925)
The Clerke's Compleinte 1922
Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden 1923
The Eadigan Saelidan 1923
Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon 1923
Enigmata Saxonic - a Nuper Inventa Duo 1923
The Cat and the Fiddle: A Nursery-Rhyme Undone and its Scandalous Secret Unlocked 1923
An Evening in Tavrobel 1924
The Lonely Isle 1924
The Princess Ni 1924
Light as Leaf on Lindentree 1925
The Flight of the Noldoli from Valinor 1925
The Lay of Leithian 1925–1931
The Lay of Eärendel 1920s
The Nameless Land 1926
Adventures in Unnatural History and Medieval Metres, being the Freaks of Fisiologus 1927:

Fastitocalon
Iumbo

Tinfang Warble, published in 1927, composed in 1914
Mythopoeia, circa 1931
Progress in Bimble Town 1931
Errantry 1933
Firiel 1934
Looney 1934
Songs for the Philologists, with E.V. Gordon et al., published 1936:

Bagme Bloma
Éadig Béo þu!
Frenchmen Froth
From One to Five
I Sat upon a Bench
Ides Ælfscýne
La Húru
Lit and Lang
Natura Apis: Morali Ricardi Eremite
Ofer Wídne Gársecg
The Root of the Boot
Ruddoc Hana
Syx Mynet

The Dragon's Visit 1937
Knocking at the Door: Lines induced by sensations when waiting for an answer at the door of an Exalted Academic Person 1937
The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, published in Welsh Review, December 1945
Imram (The Death of St. Brendan) 1946 (published in Time and Tide, December 1955
Elvish translations of Catholic prayers (ed. Wynne, Smith, Hostetter in Vinyar Tengwar 43, 44, 2002), composed in the 1950s:

Ataremma versions (Quenya Pater Noster) versions I-VI
Aia María (Quenya Ave Maria) versions I-IV
Litany of Loreto in Quenya
Ortírielyanna (Quenya Sub tuum praesidium)
Alcar i Ataren (Quenya Gloria Patri)
Alcar mi tarmenel na Erun (Quenya Gloria in Excelsis Deo)
Ae Adar Nín (Sindarin Pater Noster)

The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son 1953
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil published in 1962:

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Bombadil Goes Boating
Errantry
Little Princess Mee
The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late
The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon
The Stone Troll
Perry-the-Winkle
The Mewlips
Oliphaunt
Fastitocalon
The Cat
Shadow-Bride
The Hoard
The Sea-Bell
The Last Ship

Once upon a time 1965
Bilbo's Last Song 1966 (first published as a poster in 1974)
For W. H. A. in 1967 in Shenandoah
King Sheave in The Lost Road in 1987 in The Lost Road and Other Writings
Narqelion published in 1988 in Mythlore

Academic and other works

A Middle English Vocabulary (1922) (transcription project)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (ed., with E. V. Gordon, 1925) (transcription project)
"Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography" in The Review of English Studies, 1 (2) (April, 1925), pp. 210–215 (transcription project)
"The Devil's Coach Horses" in The Review of English Studies, 1 (3) (July, 1925), pp. 331–336 (transcription project)
"Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad" in Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association, 1 (1929), pp. 104–126 (external scan)
The Name 'Nodens' (1932)
Sigelwara Land parts I and II (1932-34)
Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale (1934)
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics (1937)
On Fairy-Stories (1939)
Sir Orfeo (1944)
Ofermod (1953)
Beorhtnoth's Death (1953)
Middle English "Losenger": Sketch of an etymological and semantic enquiry (1953)
Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle (1962)
English and Welsh (1963)
Contributions to the Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer) (1966)
Tolkien on Tolkien (autobiographical) (1966)

Posthumous publications

1975 Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings
1975 Translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo
1976 The Father Christmas Letters
1977 The Silmarillion
1979 Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien
1980 Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth
1980 Poems and Stories (a compilation of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, On Fairy-Stories, Leaf by Niggle, Farmer Giles of Ham and Smith of Wootton Major)
1981 The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (eds. Christopher Tolkien and Humphrey Carpenter)
1981 The Old English "Exodus" Text translation and commentary by J. R. R. Tolkien; edited by Joan Turville-Petre
1982 Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode
1982 Mr. Bliss
1983 The Monsters and the Critics (an essay collection)
- Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics (1936)
- On Translating Beowulf (1940)
- On Fairy-Stories (1947)
- A Secret Vice (1930)
- English and Welsh (1955)
1983–1996 The History of Middle-earth:
1. The Book of Lost Tales 1 (1983)
2. The Book of Lost Tales 2 (1984)
3. The Lays of Beleriand (1985)
4. The Shaping of Middle-earth (1986)
5. The Lost Road and Other Writings (1987)
6. The Return of the Shadow (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 1) (1988)
7. The Treason of Isengard (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 2) (1989)
8. The War of the Ring (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 3) (1990)
9. Sauron Defeated (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 4, including The Notion Club Papers) (1992)
10. Morgoth's Ring (The Later Silmarillion vol. 1) (1993)
11. The War of the Jewels (The Later Silmarillion vol. 2) (1994)
12. The Peoples of Middle-earth (1996)
- Index (2002)
1995 J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator
1998 Roverandom
2002 A Tolkien Miscellany
2002 Beowulf and the Critics ed. Michael D.C. Drout
2007 The Children of Húrin
2008 Tales from the Perilous Realm (a compilation of Roverandom, Farmer Giles of Ham, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Leaf by Niggle and Smith of Wootton Major)
2009 The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
2013 The Fall of Arthur
2014 Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary (ed. Christopher Tolkien), includes short story "Sellic Spell"
2015 The Story of Kullervo (ed. Verlyn Flieger)
2016 A Secret Vice
2016 The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, originally published in Welsh Review, 1945
2017 Beren and Lúthien
2018 The Fall of Gondolin
2021 The Nature of Middle-earth (ed. Carl F. Hostetter)

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