Index:Writings by J.R.R. Tolkien

This is an attempt to list all the published writings of J.R.R. Tolkien (hereafter, JRRT) in books, journals, newspapers, etc., in chronological order. For a list of his major books, see the bibliography section on the JRRT page.

• Note 1: For ease of reference (and because many items do not have an exact date of publication), works are sorted alphabetically for each year.
• Note 2: The list does not (in general) include reprints.

Publications during Tolkien's Lifetime

1910s

• 1910: The King Edward's School Chronicle. n.s.25, n°183. Contains Debating Society Report, pp.67-71.
• 1910: The King Edward's School Chronicle. n.s.25, n°184. Contains Debating Society Report, pp.94-95.

• 1911: The King Edward's School Chronicle. n.s.26, n°185. Contains Debating Society Report, pp.5-9.
• 1911: The King Edward's School Chronicle. n.s.26, n°186. Contains The Battle of the Eastern Field, pp. 22-26, and Acta Senatus, pp. 26-27.
• 1911: The King Edward's School Chronicle. n.s.26, n°187. Contains 'Editorial', pp.33-34, and 'Debating Society Report', pp.42-45.
• 1911: The King Edward's School Chronicle. n.s.26, n°188. Contains 'Editorial', pp.53-54.

• 1913: Exeter College Smoker. Cover artwork by JRRT.
• 1913: Stapeldon Magazine. Exeter college. Oxford. 4, n°20. Contains From the many-willow'd margin of the immemorial Thames, p.11.

• 1915: Oxford Poetry 1915. Ed. G.D.H. Cole & T.W. Earp. B.H. Blackwell. Contains Goblin Feet, pp.64-65.

• 1917: Oxford Poetry 1914-1916. Ed. G.D.H. Cole & W.S.V. B.H. Blackwell. Contains Goblin Feet, p.120.

• 1918: A Spring Harvest. Contains a 'Preface' by JRRT.

1920s

• 1920: The Book of Fairy Poetry. Includes Goblin Feet.
• 1920: Stapeldon Magazine. 5, n°26. Contains The Happy Mariners, pp.69-70.

• 1921: Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose. Ed. Kenneth Sisam. Oxford University Press. Includes Middle English Vocabulary.

• 1922: A Middle English Vocabulary.
• 1922?: Fifty New Poems for Children. Includes Goblin Feet.
• 1922: The Gryphon, Vol.4 No.3. Includes The Clerke's Compleinte.

• 1923: A Northern Venture. Leeds University English School Association. Swan Press.
• 1923: Bulletin of the Modern Humanities Research Association, number 20. Includes obituary Henry Bradley, 3 Dec. 1845-23 May 1923.
• 1923: Gryphon. Leeds University. n.s.4, n°4. Contains Iumonna Gold Galdre Bewunden, p.130.
• 1923: The Microcosm, Vol.8 No.1. Includes The City of the Gods.
• 1923: Times Literary Supplement. London, 26 april 1923. Contains Holy Maidenhood, p.281.
• 1923: Yorkshire Poetry. Leeds, 2 n°19. Contains The cat and the fiddle: A nursery-rhyme undone and its scandalous secret unlocked, p.1-3.

• 1924: Leeds University Verse 1914-1924. Leeds University English School Association. Swan Press.
• 1924: The Year's Work in English Studies 1923. Ed. Lee & Boas. The English Association. Oxford University Press. Review - Philology.

• 1925: Gryphon. n.s.6, n°6. Contains Light as Leaf on Lindentree, p.217.
• 1925: Review of English Studies. London, 1, n°2. Contains Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography, pp.210-215.
• 1925: Review of English Studies, 1, n°3. Contains The Devil's Coach-Horses, pp.331-336.
• 1925: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Oxford University Press.

• 1926: The Year's Work in English Studies 1924. Ed. Boas & Hereford. The English Association. Oxford University Press. Review - Philology.

• 1927: Realities: An Anthology of Verse. Ed. Gwendoline S.Tancred. Swan Press/Gay & Hancock Ltd. Contains The Nameless Land.
• 1927: Stapeldon Magazine, 7, n°40. Contains Adventures in Unnatural History and Medieval Metres, being the Freaks of Fisiogus, pp.123-127.
• 1927: The Year's Work in English Studies 1925. Ed. Boas & Herford. The English Association. Oxford University Press. Review - Philology.

• 1928: A New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District. Walter E. Haigh. F.R. Hist.S. Oxford University Press. Contains a 'Foreword' by JRRT.

• 1929: Essays and Studies. Contains Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad.

1930s

• 1930: Oxford Magazine, 48, n°21. Contains The Oxford English School, pp.778-782.

• 1931: Oxford Magazine, 50, n°1. Contains Progress in Bimble Town, p.22.

• 1932: Medium Ævum. Oxford, 1, n°3. Contains essay on Old English Sigelwara Land (Part 1), pp.183-196.
• 1932: Report on Excavation of the Prehistoric, Roman and Post Roman Site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire. Wheeler & Wheeler. Oxford University Press. Contains essay, Appendix I: The Name "Nodens", pp.132-7.

• 1933: Oxford Magazine. 52, n°5. Contains the poem Errantry, p.180.

• 1934: Chronicle, Convent of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton, 4. Contains the poem Firiel, pp.30-32.
• 1934: Medium Ævum. 3, n°2. Contains the poem Sigelwara Land (Part 2), pp.95-111.
• 1934: Oxford Magazine. 52, n°9. Contains the poem Looney, p.340.
• 1934: Oxford Magazine. 52, n°13. Contains the poem The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, pp.464-465.
• 1934: Transactions of the Philological Society. David Nutt. Stephen Austin and Sons. Contains Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale, pp.70.

• 1936: Liflade ant te Passiun of Seinte Iuliene. S.R.T.O. d'Ardenne. University of Liege.
• 1936: Songs for the Philologists.

• 1937: Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics.
• 1937: The Hobbit. George Allen & Unwin.
• 1937: Oxford Magazine. 55, n°11. Contains the poem The Dragon's Visit, p.342.
• 1937: Oxford Magazine. 55, n°13. Contains the poem Knocking at the Door: Lines induced by sensations when waiting for an answer at the Door of an Exalted Academic Person, p.403.
• 1937: Oxford Magazine. 55 n°15. Contains the poem Iumonna Gold Galdre Bewunden, p.473.

• 1938: The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation. Ed. T.F. Higham & C.M. Bowra. Oxford University Press.

• 1939: The Reeve's Tale - Version Prepared for Summer Diversions, Oxford.

1940s

• 1940: Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment. John R. Clark Hall & C.L.Wrenn. George Allen & Unwin. Contains Prefatory Remarks on Prose Translation of "beowulf", pp.viii-xli.
• 1940: Viga-Glums Saga. Ed. G. Turville-Petre. Oxford University Press / Oxford English Monographs.

• 1944: Sir Orfeo.

• 1945: Catholic Herald. Contains 'The Name Coventry' - Letter to the editor.
• 1945: Dublin Review. London, January 1945. Contains the story Leaf by Niggle, pp.46-61.
• 1945: Welsh Review. Cardiff, 4, n°4. Contains The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, pp.254-266.

• 1947: English Studies. Amsterdam, 28, n°6. In collaboration with S.R.T.O. d'Ardenne. Contains "ipplen" in Sawles Warde, pp. 168-170.
• 1947: Essays Presented to Charles Williams. Oxford University Press. Contains On Fairy-Stories, pp.38-39.

• 1948: "MS. Bodley 34: A Re-Collation of a Collation" in Studia Neophilologica Vol. 20, Nos. 1-2..

• 1949: Farmer Giles of Ham.

1950s

• 1951: Elizabethan Acting. Ed. B.L.Joseph. Oxford University Press / Oxford English Monographs.

• 1952: torgils Saga ok Hafli ta. Ed. Ursula Brown. Oxford University Press / Oxford English Monographs.

• 1953: Essais de Philologie Moderne. University Of Liege. Contains Middle English "Losenger".
• 1953: Essays and Studies 1953. Ed. Geoffrey Bullough. The English Association. John Murray. Contains The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son, pp.1-18.
• 1953: Pearl. Ed. E.V.Gordon. Oxford University Press.
• 1953: Radio Times. London, 4 December 1953. Contains A Fourteenth-Century Romance, p.9.
  

• 1954: Sir Orfeo. Ed. A.J. Bliss. Oxford University Press / Oxford English Monographs.
• 1954: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings
• 1954: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

• 1955: The Ancrene Riwle. M.B. Salu. Burns & Oates. Contains a 'Preface' by JRRT.
• 1955: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings
• 1955: Time and Tide. London, 3 December 1955. Contains the poem Imram, p.1561.

• 1958: The Old English Apollonius of Tyre. Ed. Peter Goolden. Oxford University Press / Oxford English Monographs. Contains 'Prefatory Note', p. iii.
• 1958: The Peterborough Chronicle 1070-1154. Ed. Cecily Clark. Oxford University Press / Oxford English Monographs.
  

1960s

• 1960: The Seafarer. London. Ed. Gordon. Methuen.
• 1960: Triode. Contains a letter to the editor - Comments to Arthur R. Weir, "No Monroe in Lothlorien!".

• 1961: A Short History of English Poetry. Includes Stanza 32 from the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

• 1962: The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
• 1962: Ancrene Wisse.

• 1963: Angles and Britons. University of Wales Press. Contains English and Welsh, pp. 1-41.

• 1964: Tree and Leaf. George Allen & Unwin.

• 1965: Winter's Tales for Children 1. Contains Once Upon a Time and The Dragon's Visit.

• 1966: Diplomat. New York, October 1966. Contains the article Tolkien on Tolkien, p.39.
• 1966: The Jerusalem Bible. Darton, Longman & Todd.
• 1966: The Tolkien Reader. Ballantine Books. Contains The homecoming of Beortnoth Beorthelm's Son, Tree and Leaf, Farmer Giles of Ham and The Adventures of Tombombadil.

• 1967: The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle.
• 1967: Shenandoah: A Tribute to Wystan Hugh Auden on his Sixtieth Birthday. Contains the poem For W.H.A..
• 1967: Smith of Wootton Major.

• 1969: The Image of Man in C.S. Lewis. Includes Letter 298.
• 1969: Orcrist no.4, Tolkien Journal. Includes various extracts from letters.
• 1969: Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham. Ballentine Books.

1970s

• 1971: Attacks of Taste. Eds. Byrne & Penzler. Gotham Book Mart. Includes one-paragraph statement by JRRT, p.43.

• 1972: Daily Telegraph. Contains Beautiful Place because Trees are Loved - Letter to the editor in response to an editorial.

Posthumous Publications

1970s

• 1974: Bilbo's Last Song.
• 1974: Tolkien Language Notes 2.

• 1975: A Tolkien Compass. Includes Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings.
• 1975: Farmer Giles of Ham and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
• 1975: Les Aventures de Tom Bombadil.
• 1975: Mythlore 10. Contains a letter dated 17 November 1957 to Dr. Herbert Schiro.
• 1975: Tree and Leaf, Smith of Wootton Major and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorthhelm's Son.
• 1975: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo.

• 1976: Drawings by Tolkien. Exhibition catalogue.
• 1976: The Father Christmas Letters.

• 1977: J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography. Includes excerpts of letters, poetry and prose.
• 1977: The Silmarillion.

• 1978: The Inklings. Includes excerpts from letters, diaries and manuscripts.
• 1978: The Tolkien Scrapbook. Includes the drawing The Lonely Mountain.

• 1979: J.R.R. Tolkien: Scholar and Storyteller. Contains Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford, 5 june 1959.
• 1979: Minas Tirith Evening-Star Vol.8, No.2. Contains An Interview with J.R.R.T..
• 1979: Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien.

1980s

• 1980: Poems and Stories. George Allen & Unwin.
• 1980: Sotheby's Catalogue of Valuable Autograph Letters, Literary Manuscripts and Historical Documents 21-22 July 1980. Includes a letter to Miss How.
• 1980: Unfinished Tales.

• 1981: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien.

• 1982: Finn and Hengest.
• 1982: Mr. Bliss.
• 1982: The Old English Exodus.
• 1982: The Return of Tolkien. Article illustrated by JRRT.
• 1982: The Road to Middle-earth. Includes several poems originally published in Songs for the Philologists.

• 1983: The History of Middle-earth vol. 1: The Book of Lost Tales, Part One.
• 1983: The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays.
• 1983: Parma Eldalamberon 6. Includes notes made on a draft version of Thror's Map.
• 1983: Smith of Wootton Major and Leaf by Niggle. Unwin Paperbacks.

• 1984: Fantasists on Fantasy: A Collection of Critical Reflections by Eighteen Masters of the Art. Includes Fantasy and To W.H. Auden.
• 1984: The History of Middle-earth vol. 2: The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two.
• 1984: The Manuscripts of J.R.R.T.. Reproduces four extracts from The Lord of the Rings manuscripts.
• 1984: Oliphaunt (as a flat sheet; see also Oliphaunt (book), 1989).
• 1984: Sotheby's English Literature and English History 6-7 December 1984. Includes Kinship of the Half-elven, an extract from Concerning ... The Hoard, together with several extracts from letters to Eileen Elgar.

• 1985: J.R.R. Tolkien's Letters to Rhona Beare.
• 1985: The History of Middle-earth vol. 3: The Lays of Beleriand.

• 1986: Beyond Bree July 1986. Includes two pages from an annotated copy of The Hobbit.
• 1986: The History of Middle-earth vol. 4: The Shaping of Middle-earth.

• 1987: Drawings for 'The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkien. Exhibition catalogue. Bodleian Library.
• 1987: J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit Drawings, Watercolors, and Manuscripts. Marquette University.
• 1987: The History of Middle-earth vol. 5: The Lost Road and Other Writings.
• 1987: The Tale of Gondolin.
• 1987: Tolkien and the Spirit of the Age: Papers as Presented at the First Lustrum Celebration of the Dutch Tolkien Society Unquendor. Contains Progress in Bimble Town, p22.

• 1988: Arda 1984. Contains The Clerke's Compleinte.
• 1988: The History of Middle-earth vol. 6: The Return of the Shadow.
• 1988: Mythlore 56. Includes Narqelion.

• 1989: Beyond Bree, March 1989. Includes The Plotz Declension.
• 1989: Oliphaunt (as a children's book; see also Oliphaunt (sheet), 1984).
• 1989: The History of Middle-earth vol. 7: The Treason of Isengard.
• 1989: Mythlore 60. Includes Narqelion.
• 1989: Vinyar Tengwar 6. Includes The Plotz Declension, Narqelion, and a letter to Jane Sibley.

1990s

• 1990: The History of Middle-earth vol. 8: The War of the Ring.

• 1991: Leaves from the Tree: J.R.R. Tolkien's Shorter Fiction. The Proceedings of the 4th Tolkien Society Workshop. Includes an extract from the unpublished Lecture on Dragons.

• 1992: Basic Quenya. Includes The Plotz Declension.
• 1992: The History of Middle-earth vol. 9: Sauron Defeated.
• 1992: Tolkien: Life and Legend. Exhibition catalogue. Bodleian Library.

• 1993: The History of Middle-earth vol. 10: Morgoth's Ring.

• 1994: Tyalië Tyelelliéva 1. Includes Lord of the Rings Heru i Million.
• 1994: Vinyar Tengwar 36. Includes The Entu, Ensi, Enta Declension.
• 1994: The History of Middle-earth vol. 11: The War of the Jewels.

• 1995: J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator. Contains ca. 100 previously unpublished pictures. Among writings not appearing elsewhere might be mentioned a quote on p. 53 from an essay on dragons (see Lecture on Dragons) and quotations from unpublished notes on Elvish heraldry.
• 1995: Parma Eldalamberon issue 11. Includes I-Lam na-Ngoldathon: The Grammar and Lexicon of the Gnomish Tongue.
• 1995: Vinyar Tengwar 37. Includes The Túrin Prose Fragments.

• 1996: The History of Middle-earth vol. 12: The Peoples of Middle-earth.

• 1997: A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie. Includes quotes from the unpublished Elvish time and Essay concerning Smith of Wootton Major.
• 1997: Tales from the Perilous Realm.

• 1998: Parma Eldalamberon issue 12. Includes Qenyaqetsa: The Qenya Phonology and Lexicon.
• 1998: Roverandom.
• 1998: Vinyar Tengwar 39. Includes From Quendi and Eldar, Appendix D and Ósanwe-kenta.

2000s

• 2000: The End of the Third Age.
• 2000: Vinyar Tengwar 41. Includes Etymological Notes on the Ósanwe-kenta, From The Shibboleth of Fëanor, and Notes on Óre.

• 2001: Interzone December issue, #174. Includes a transcription of a letter to Gene Wolfe from November 7th, 1966.
• 2001: Parma Eldalamberon issue 13. Includes The Alphabet of Rúmil & Early Noldorin Fragments.
• 2001: Sotheby's Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts 13 December 2001. Includes a letter to Pauline Baynes.
• 2001: Tyalië Tyelelliéva 18. Includes the prayers Átaremma and Aia María.
• 2001: Vinyar Tengwar 42. Includes The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor.

• 2002: The Annotated Hobbit: Revised and Expanded Edition. Includes several hard-to-find poems and Elvish Song in Rivendell, The Quest of Erebor, and Glip.
• 2002: Beowulf and the Critics.
• 2002: Christie's Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts 24 May 2002. Includes Index questions and three letters.
• 2002: Vinyar Tengwar 43. Includes Words of Joy: Five Catholic Prayers - Part One.
• 2002: Vinyar Tengwar 44. Includes Words of Joy: Five Catholic Prayers - Part Two, Ae Adar Nín, and Alcar mi Tarmenel na Erun.

• 2003: Parma Eldalamberon issue 14. Contains Early Qenya and The Valmaric Script.
• 2003: Sotheby's English Literature, History, Fine Bindings, Private Press Books, Children's Books, Illustrated Books and Drawings 10 July 2003. Includes a letter to L.M. Cutts.
• 2003: Tolkien and the Great War. Includes numerous quotes from unpublished correspondence, diaries, poetry and notebooks.
• 2003: Vinyar Tengwar 45. Includes Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies - Part One.

• 2004: The Invented Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien. Contains several manuscripts.
• 2004: Parma Eldalamberon issue 15. Contains Sí Qente Feanor and Other Elvish Writings.
• 2004: Vinyar Tengwar 46. Contains Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies - Part Two.

• 2005: The Keys of Middle-earth. Includes previously unpublished extracts from Tolkien's academic writings held at the Bodleian Library.
• 2005: The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion. Includes The Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings, a 1951 letter to Milton Waldman, and a reproduction of a manuscript page showing a synoptic time scheme used by JRRT while writing The Lord of the Rings.
• 2005: The Ruins of Osgiliath.
• 2005: Vinyar Tengwar 47. Contains Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals and Related Writings — Part One.
• 2005: Vinyar Tengwar 48. Contains Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals and Related Writings — Part Two.

• 2006: The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide. Includes numerous extracts from diaries, papers in various archives and libraries, and from other unpublished or hard to find sources.
• 2006: Parma Eldalamberon issue 16. Contains Early Elvish Poetry and Pre-Fëanorian Alphabets.
• 2006: Sotheby's Fine Books and Manuscripts December 11 2006. Includes a letter to Naomi Mitchison (letter 122).
• 2006: The Ring of Words. Includes a letter to Kenneth Sisam, dated 16 March 1933.

• 2007: The Children of Húrin.
• 2007: The History of The Hobbit.
• 2007: Parma Eldalamberon issue 17. Contains Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings.
• 2007: Sotheby's English Literature, History, Private Press, Children's Books and Illustrations 13 December 2007. Includes a letter to Derrick Parnum.
• 2007: Tolkien Studies: Volume 4. Includes The Name "Nodens".
• 2007: Vinyar Tengwar 49. Contains Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals and Related Writings — Part Three.

• 2008: Lembas Extra: Proceedings of the 5th Unquendor Lustrum. Includes several unpublished letters.
• 2008: On Fairy-stories (expanded edition).

• 2009: Black and White Ogre Country. Includes unpublished photographs and a letter to Hilary Tolkien.
• 2009: The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.
• 2009: Parma Eldalamberon issue 18. Contains Tengwesta Qenderinwa and Pre-Fëanorian Alphabets Part 2.
• 2009: Tolkien Studies: Volume 6. Includes Fate and Free Will.

2010s

• 2010: Wheelbarrows at Dawn: The Memories of Hilary Tolkien.