Index:Writings by J.R.R. Tolkien

This is an attempt to list all published writings (including juvenilia, letters, transcribed interviews and statements, etc.) of J.R.R. Tolkien appearing in books, periodicals, ephemera and online, in a chronological order of publication. For a list of his major books, see the bibliography section on the J.R.R. Tolkien page.

• Note 1: For ease of reference (and because many items do not have an exact date of publication), works are sorted alphabetically under each year.
• Note 2: The list does not (in general) include reprints or new editions without new content.
• Note 3: Publications, with only a vague contribution by Tolkien, or which are questionable, disputed, or with an unknown publication status or similiar, are enclosed with parentheses.
• Note 4: Non-English publications are only listed if these contain material published for the first time.

Publications during Tolkien's Lifetime

1910s

• 1910: The King Edward's School Chronicle (Vol.25, No.183). Includes Debating Society Report.
• 1910: The King Edward's School Chronicle (Vol.25, No.184). Includes Debating Society Report.

• 1911: The King Edward's School Chronicle (Vol.26, No.185). Includes Debating Society Report.
• 1911: The King Edward's School Chronicle (Vol.26, No.186). Includes The Battle of the Eastern Field and Acta Senatus.
• 1911: The King Edward's School Chronicle (Vol.26, No.187). Includes 'Editorial' and 'Debating Society Report'.
• 1911: The King Edward's School Chronicle (Vol.26, No.188). Contains 'Editorial'.

• 1912: Exeter College Smoker. Cover artwork.

• 1913: Exeter College Smoker. Cover artwork.
• 1913: The King Edward's School Chronicle (Vol.28, No.202). Includes "Oxford Letter".
• 1913: Stapeldon Magazine (Vol.4, No.20). Includes From the many-willow'd margin of the immemorial Thames.

• 1914: Rules of the Exeter College Essay Club.
• 1914: Ye Chequers Clubbe Binge. Cover artwork.

• 1915: Oxford Poetry 1915. Includes Goblin Feet.

• 1917: Oxford Poetry 1914-1916. Includes Goblin Feet.

• 1918: A Spring Harvest. Includes a 'Preface'.

1920s

• 1920: The Book of Fairy Poetry. Includes Goblin Feet.
• 1920: Stapeldon Magazine (Vol.5, Nr.26). Includes The Happy Mariners.

• 1921: Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose. 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 Clerkes Compleinte.

• 1923: A Northern Venture. Includes poems Tha Eadigan Saelidan, Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon, and Enigmata Saxonica Nuper Inventa Duo.
• 1923: Bulletin of the Modern Humanities Research Association, number 20.Includes an obituary to Henry Bradley.
• 1923: The Gryphon, n.s.4, no.4. Includes Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden.
• 1923: The Microcosm, Vol.8 No.1. Includes The City of the Gods.
• 1923: Times Literary Supplement. London, 26 april 1923. Contains Holy Maidenhood.
• 1923: Yorkshire Poetry. Includes The cat and the fiddle: A nursery-rhyme undone and its scandalous secret unlocked.

• 1924: Leeds University Verse 1914-24. Includes poems An Evening in Tavrobel, The Lonely Isle and The Princess Ní.
• 1924: The Year's Work in English Studies 1923. Ed. Lee & Boas. The English Association. Oxford University Press. Review - Philology.

• 1925: The Gryphon, Vol. 6 No. 6. Contains Light as Leaf on Lindentree.
• ?1925–?1927: Inter-University Magazine. Includes Tinfang Warble and The Grey Bridge of Tavrobel.
• 1925: The Review of English Studies, Vol. 1 No. 2. Includes Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography.
• 1925: The Review of English Studies, Vol. 1 No. 3. Includes The Devil's Coach-Horses.
• 1925: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
• 1925: The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion Session 1923-24. Includes contribution to "Gerald of Wales on the Survival of Welsh".

• 1926: The Year's Work in English Studies 1924. Includes Review - Philology.

• 1927: Realities: An Anthology of Verse. Includes The Nameless Land.
• 1927: The Stapeldon Magazine, vol. 7, nr. 40. Includes poems Fastitocalon and Iumbo, or ye Kinde of ye Oliphaunt.
• 1927: The Year's Work in English Studies 1925. Includes Review - Philology.

• 1928: A New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District. Includes a Foreword.

• 1929: Essays and Studies. Contains Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad.
• 1929: Wonder Tales from Fairy Isles. Includes Goblin Feet.

1930s

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

• 1931: The Open Door to Poetry: An Anthology. Includes Goblin Feet.
• 1931: The Oxford Magazine, 50, n°1. Contains Progress in Bimble Town, p.22.

• 1932: The British Esperantist. Vol.28, May 1932. Includes A Philologist on Esperanto.
• 1932: The Life of Joseph Wright. Includes extracts from the letter Letter to Joseph Wright.
• 1932: Medium Ævum (Vol. 1, No. 3). Includes Sigelwara Land (Part 1).
• 1932: Report on the Excavation of the Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire. Includes The Name 'Nodens'.
• 1932: Sigelwara land — I

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

• 1934: The Chronicle of the Convents of the Sacred Heart, Volume IV. Includes the poem Firiel.
• 1934: Medium Ævum (Vol. 3, No. 2). Includes Sigelwara Land (Part 2).
• 1934: The Oxford Magazine. 52, n°9. Contains the poem Looney, p.340.
• 1934: The Oxford Magazine. 52, n°13. Contains the poem The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, pp.464-465.
• 1934: Sigelwara land — II
• 1934: Transactions of the Philological Society. David Nutt. Stephen Austin and Sons. Contains Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale, pp.70.

• 1936: Annual of Our Lady's School. Includes the poems The Shadow Man and Noel.
• (1936: An Edition of Þe Liflade ant te Passiun of Seinte Iuliene.)
• (1936: Roman Britain and the English Settlements.)
• 1936: Songs for the Philologists.

• (1937: The Battle of Maldon.)
• 1937: Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics.
• 1937: George Allen & Unwin Spring Announcements 1937
• 1937: George Allen & Unwin Summer Announcements 1937
• 1937: The Hobbit. George Allen & Unwin.
• 1937: The Oxford Magazine. 55, n°11. Contains the poem The Dragon's Visit, p.342.
• 1937: The Oxford Magazine. 55, n°13. Includes the poem Knocking at the Door.
• 1937: The Oxford Magazine. 55 n°15. Contains the poem Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden, p.473.

• 1938: Observer, 20 February 1938. Includes Letter to the Editor.
• (1938: The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation.)

• 1939: The Reeve's Tale: Version Prepared for Recitation at the 'Summer Diversions'.

1940s

• 1940: Beowulf and the Finnsburg Fragment. Includes Prefatory Remarks on Prose Translation of "beowulf".
• (1940: Víga-Glúms Saga.)

• 1942: A Philological Miscellany Presented to Eilert Ekwall. Includes introductory note co-signed by Tolkien.

• 1944: Sir Orfeo.

• 1945: The Catholic Herald (23 February 1945). Includes The Name Coventry - Letter to the editor.
• 1945: The Dublin Review (January 1945). Includes the story Leaf by Niggle.
• 1945: The Welsh Review (Vol.IV, No.4). Includes The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun.

• 1946: Sunday Times (14 April 1946). Includes Research v. Literature.

• 1947: English Studies (December 1947). Includes "iþþlen" in Sawles Warde.
• 1947: Essays Presented to Charles Williams. Includes On Fairy-Stories.

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

• 1949: Farmer Giles of Ham.
• 1949: The Times (28 January 1949). Includes the letter "Cardinal Mindszenty", co-signed by Tolkien.

1950s

• (1951: Elizabethan Acting.)
• 1951: The Hobbit, second edition. Includes prefatory note.

• (1952: þorgils Saga ok Hafliða.)

• 1953: Essais de philologie moderne (1951). Includes essay Middle English 'Losenger'.
• 1953: Essays and Studies 1953. Includes essay and poem The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son.
• 1953: Middle English 'Losenger'
• 1953: Pearl. Includes Form and Purpose.
• 1953: Radio Times. Contains A Fourteenth-Century Romance.

• 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
• (1954: Sir Orfeo (edited by Alan Bliss).)

• 1955: The Ancrene Riwle. Contains a 'Preface'.
• 1955: The New York Times Book Review. Includes extracts from letter 165.
• 1955: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings
• 1955: Time and Tide, 3 December 1955. Includes the poem Imram.

• 1956: The Banbury Advertiser 19 December. Includes parts of an opening speech.
• 1956: Oxford Mail 15 December. Includes parts of an opening speech.

• 1957: Oxford Mail, 11 September. Includes quote from speech.
• 1957: The Bookseller, 14 September. Includes quote from speech.

• 1958: The Old English Apollonius of Tyre. Includes Prefatory Note.
• 1958: The Peterborough Chronicle 1070-1154. Ed. Cecily Clark. Oxford University Press / Oxford English Monographs.

• 1959: The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren. Includes excerpts from a letter to Iona and Peter Opie.

1960s

• (1960: The Seafarer.)
• 1960: Glamdring 2
• 1960: Triode 18. Includes a letter.

• 1961: A Short History of English Poetry. Includes Stanza 32 from the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
• 1961: Kvällsposten, 27 July 1961. Includes the 1961 Jan Broberg interview.
• 1961: Dagens Nyheter, 21 August 1961. Includes Den besynnerlige professor Tolkien (interview).

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

• 1963: Angles and Britons. Includes English and Welsh.
• 1963: The Sunday Telegraph (10 November 1963). Includes extract from an interview by Anthony Curtis.

• 1964: I, Palantir (April 1964). Includes extracts from letter and interview.
• 1964: Tree and Leaf.

• 1965: Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure. Includes extract from a letter to Richard Lupoff.
• 1965: The Fellowship of the Ring (Ballantine Books). Includes Foreword to the Second Edition.
• 1965: Tolkien Journal (Vol.1, No.2). Includes several writings.
• 1965: Winter's Tales for Children 1. Contains Once upon a Time and The Dragon's Visit.

• 1966: The Christian Science Monitor (11 August 1966). Includes extracts from interview by Daphne Castell.
• 1966: Diplomat, October 1966. Includes Tolkien on Tolkien.
• 1966: Glasgow Herald (6 August 1966). Includes extracts from interview by Daphne Castell.
• 1966: The Hobbit, the Longmans/Unwin edition. Includes revised prefatory note.
• 1966: The Jerusalem Bible.
• 1966: New Worlds Vol. 50, No. 168. Includes extracts from interview by Daphne Castell.
• 1966: Oxford Mail (3 August 1966). Includes extracts from interview by John Ezard.
• 1966: The Return of the King. Includes the 1966 Index.
• 1966: Saturday Evening Post (2 July 1966). Includes extracts from an interview by Henry Resnik.
• 1966: Tolkien Journal (Vol.2, No.1). Includes poem A Elbereth Gilthoniel and translation.
• 1966: The Tolkien Reader. Contains The Homecoming of Beortnoth Beorthelm's Son, Tree and Leaf, Farmer Giles of Ham and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.

• 1967: The New York Times Magazine 15 January 1967. Includes interview.
• 1967: The Poetry of J.R.R. Tolkien. Includes the poem "The Root of the Boot".
• 1967: Redbook (23 November 1967). Includes Smith of Wootton Major.
• 1967: The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle.
• 1967: Seventeen January 1967. Includes interview.
• 1967: Shenandoah: A Tribute to Wystan Hugh Auden on his Sixtieth Birthday. Contains the poem For W.H.A..
• 1967: Smith of Wootton Major.
• 1967: The Sunday Times Magazine 15 January 1967. Includes interview.

• 1968: Beowulf (Crossley-Holland translation). Includes extract from a letter.
• 1968: The Birmingham Post Midland Magazine (28 May 1968). Includes extracts from an interview.
• 1968: The Daily Telegraph Magazine, March 22. Includes the interview "The Man Who Understands Hobbits".
• 1968: Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Weekend Magazine (Vol. 18, No. 35). Includes interview.
• 1968: Oxford Mail (9 February 1968). Includes extracts from an interview.
• 1968: Tolkien Journal (Vol.3, No.3). Includes extracts from a letter.
• 1968: The Tolkien Relation: A Personal Inquiry. Includes extracts from letters, as well as some unattributed quotes.
• 1968: Wisterian (20 December 1968). Reproduces a letter to Billy Callahan.

• 1969: An Afternoon in Middle-earth. Reproduces an extract from a letter.
• 1969: Carandaith Vol. 1, No. 2. Includes extracts from interview by Daphne Castell.
• 1969: The Image of Man in C.S. Lewis. Includes Letter 298.
• 1969: Orcrist no.4, Tolkien Journal. Includes various extracts from letters.
• 1969: The Review of English Studies, Vol. 1. Includes Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography and The Devil's Coach-Horses.
• 1969: Selected Literary Essays. Includes quotes from a letter.
• 1969: Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham.
• 1969: Tolkien Journal (Vol.3, No.4). Includes extracts from a letter.
• 1969: The Young Magicians. Includes poems Once upon a Time and The Dragon's Visit.

1970s

• 1970: A Map of Middle-earth
• 1970: Carandaith Vol.2, No.1. Includes excerpts from a letter to Joy Hill.
• 1970: Show Vol.1, No.1. Includes excerpts from an interview.
• 1970: Tolkien Criticism: An Annotated Checklist. Includes quotes from some hard-to-find publications.

• 1971: Attacks of Taste. Includes one-paragraph statement.

• 1972: Daily Telegraph. Includes Beautiful place because trees are loved - Letter to the editor in response to an editorial.
• 1972: The Fictitious Characters of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien in Relation to Their Medieval Sources. Includes Letter 213.
• 1972: The Los Angeles Times Calendar (9 April 1972). Includes extracts from an interview by William Cater.
• 1972: Mallorn 5. Includes a letter to Vera Chapman
• 1972: The Scotsman (5 February 1972). Includes extracts from an interview.
• 1972: Sotheby's Fine English and Continental Furniture Bronzes, Textiles and Works of Art 1825-1930 and French Animalier Bronzes. Includes a written statement.
• 1972: The Sunday Times Magazine (2 January 1972). Includes extracts from an interview by William Cater.

• 1973: An Atlas of Fantasy. Includes several maps.
• 1973: Amon Dîn (Vol.2, No.1). Includes a letter.
• 1973: The J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar 1974. Includes several illustrations.
• 1973: Sotheby's Nineteenth Century and Modern First Editions, Presentation Copies, Autograph Letters and Literary Manuscripts. Includes extracts from a letter to Stanley Unwin.

Posthumous Publications

1970s

• 1973: Mythprint (Vol.8, No.3). Includes extracts from a letter to Joan O. Falconer.
• 1973: The Sunday Telegraph (9 September). Includes an extract from a letter to Michael Tolkien.
• 1973: The Tablet (15 September). Includes extracts from Letter 142 and another letter to Father Robert Murray.
• 1973: Tygodnik Powszechny (nr 40). Includes extracts from a letter, translated into Polish.

• 1974: The Arts Council Collection of Modern Literary Manuscripts 1963-1972. Includes letter.
• 1974: Bilbo's Last Song.
• 1974: C.S. Lewis: A Biography.
• 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: Modern Fantasy: Five Studies. Includes letter.
• 1975: Monash Review 3 (1975). Includes poem Doworst and letter.
• 1975: Mythlore 10. Contains a letter dated 17 November 1957 to Dr. Herbert Schiro.
• 1975: Mythprint Vol.11, No.1. Includes letter.
• 1975: Om Beowulfsagan
• 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: Fantastic November 1976. Includes quotes and recollections.
• 1976: The Father Christmas Letters.
• 1976: J.R.R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle Earth. Includes quotes from letters and interviews.
• 1976: Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers: The Makers of Heroic Fantasy. Includes a quote and recollections.
• 1976: Mallorn, 10. Includes Letter 203.
• 1976: Tolkien and The Silmarillion. Includes an inscription, excerpts from letters, and reminiscences.

• 1977: British Book News (June 1977). Includes excerpts from interview.
• 1977: J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography. Includes excerpts of letters, poetry and prose.
• 1977: The Silmarillion.
• 1977: Sotheby's Nineteenth Century and Modern First Editions, Presentation Copies, Autograph Letters and Literary Manuscripts 28-29 July 1977. Includes letters.
• 1977: Sotheby's Valuable Autograph Letters, Literary Manuscripts and Historical Documents 12-13 December 1977. Includes letters.

• 1978: A Elbereth Gilthoniel! 1, no. 2. Includes parts of Doworst.
• 1978: Eglerio! In Praise of Tolkien. Includes quotes attributed to Tolkien.
• 1978: The Inklings. Includes excerpts from letters, diaries and manuscripts.
• 1978: J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar 1979.
• 1978: Mallorn 12. Reprints The Battle of the Eastern Field.
• 1978: Sotheby's Catalogue of Autograph Letters, Literary Manuscripts and Historical Documents 16 October 1978. Includes letters.
• 1978: The Tolkien Scrapbook. Includes the drawing The Lonely Mountain.

• 1979: J.R.R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller: Essays in Memoriam. Includes Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford, 5 June 1959.
• 1979: Minas Tirith Evening-Star (Volume 8, Number 2). Contains An Interview with J.R.R.T..
• 1979: Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien.

1980s

• ?1980s: The Devil's Coach-Horses.

• 1980: Amon Hen 44. Includes attributed quote.
• 1980: Biblioasis One, or The Quencher. Includes a letter to Naomi Mitchison.
• 1980: Eorclanstanas: or The Hobbitiana. Includes a version of Galadriel's Lament.
• 1980: The Lord of the Rings Souvenir booklet commemorating twenty five years of its publication.
• 1980: Poems and Stories.
• 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 Catholic Herald (18 September 1981). Includes extracts from The Name Coventry.
• 1981: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien.
• 1981: Mallorn 17. Includes a letter.
• 1981: Robin Waterfield Catalogue 40: English Literature. Includes inscriptions and notes.

• 1982: Finn and Hengest.
• 1982: J.R.R. Tolkien: A Critical Biography. Includes a letter.
• 1982: Mr. Bliss.
• 1982: Notes and Queries (February 1982). Includes quotes from a letter.
• 1982: The Old English Exodus.
• 1982: Quettar 13. Includes The Tengwar Numerals
• 1982: Quettar 14. Includes The Tengwar Numerals (continuation)
• 1982: Sotheby's Catalogue of Modern First Editions and Presentation Copies 19 July 1982. Includes a crossword puzzle.
• 1982: Sotheby's Catalogue of Valuable Autograph Letters, Literary Manuscripts and Historical Documents including sections of Continental and Music Manuscripts 29-30 June 1982. Includes reproductions of an application.
• 1982: The Sunday Times Magazine 19 September 1982. Includes 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: Holding Together, or, The Ink of the Octopus: A selection of autographs and manuscripts collected as Catalogue 8. Includes letters.
• 1983: Lembas (Vol. 2, No. 10). Includes letters.
• 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: Peter Jolliffe Catalogue 27. Includes a letter and a cartoon with caption.
• 1983: Robin Waterfield Catalogue 45: A Fair Choice. Includes inscription and a note.
• 1983: Smith of Wootton Major and Leaf by Niggle. Unwin Paperbacks.
• 1983: Sotheby's English Literature Comprising Printed Books, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts 21-22 July 1983. Includes notes and letters.

• 1984: Amon Hen 70. Includes quotes from a letter.
• 1984: Beyond Bree December 1984.
• 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 Concerning ... 'The Hoard', Kinship of the Half-elven, and extracts from letters to Eileen Elgar.

• 1985: Beyond Bree May 1985. Includes Concerning ... 'The Hoard', Kinship of the Half-elven, and extracts from letters to Eileen Elgar.
• 1985: Beyond Bree June 1985. Includes Kinship of the Half-elven.
• 1985: Beyond Bree October 1985. Includes transcription.
• ?1985: Blackwell's Catalogue A81. Includes letters.
• 1985: Blackwell's Catalogue of Rare Modern Books May 1985. Includes letters.
• 1985: David J. Holmes Catalogue 12. Includes a manuscript note.
• 1985: I fantasins världar. Includes the 1961 Jan Broberg interview.
• 1985: J.R.R. Tolkien's Letters to Rhona Beare.
• 1985: The History of Middle-earth vol. 3: The Lays of Beleriand.
• 1985: Lion Heart Autographs Catalogue 12. Includes letter.
• 1985: Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding Tales Old and New. Includes Riddles in the Dark (First Edition).
• 1985: Walter R. Benjamin Autographs: The Collector (No. 910). Includes letter.

• 1986: Beyond Bree July 1986. Includes two pages from an annotated copy of The Hobbit.
• 1986: Beyond Bree December 1986. Includes statement.
• 1986: The History of Middle-earth vol. 4: The Shaping of Middle-earth.
• 1986: Mallorn 23. Includes Goblin Feet.
• 1986: Mythlore 45. Includes quotes from letters and an annotation.
• 1986: Paul C. Richards Autographs Catalogue 208. Includes letter.
• 1986: Paul C. Richards Autographs Catalogue 211. Includes application.
• 1986: Sotheby's Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts and Music 27 May and 10 June 1986. Includes letters.

• 1987: The Bookseller (16 January 1987). Includes letters.
• 1987: Books for Keeps. Includes letters.
• 1987: La Brita Esperantisto, July 1987. Includes A Philologist on Esperanto.
• 1987: David Schulson Autographs Catalogue 42. Includes letter.
• 1987: Das erste Jahrzehnt 1977–1987: Ein Almanach. Includes The Complaint of Mîm the Dwarf.
• 1987: The History of Middle-earth vol. 5: The Lost Road and Other Writings.
• 1987: The Hobbit (50th Anniversary edition). Includes manuscripts, illustrations, and letters.
• 1987: The Hobbit 50th Anniversary: 1937-1987. Includes letters.
• 1987: J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit: Drawings, Watercolors, and Manuscripts
• 1987: Mythlore 50. Includes quotes from a letter.
• 1987: Paul C. Richards Autographs Catalogue 223. Includes letter.
• 1987: Paul C. Richards Autographs Catalogue 224. Includes letter.
• 1987: Science Fiction Chronicle, Issue 93. Includes letters.
• 1987: Selections from the Marquette J.R.R. Tolkien Collection
• (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. Includes Progress in Bimble Town.

• 1988: Arda 1984. Contains The Clerkes Compleinte.
• 1988: The History of Middle-earth vol. 6: The Return of the Shadow.
• 1988: Maggs Bros. Autograph Letters & Historical Documents. Includes letters.
• 1988: Mythlore 56. Includes Narqelion.
• 1988: On Old English. Includes quotes from letter and lecture.
• 1988: Paul C. Richards Autographs Catalogue 227. Includes letter.
• 1988: Paul C. Richards Autographs Catalogue 228. Includes letter.
• 1988: Paul C. Richards Autographs Catalogue 229. Includes letter.
• 1988: Paul C. Richards Autographs Catalogue 230. Includes letter.

• 1989: Beyond Bree, March 1989. Includes The Plotz Declension.
• 1989: The History of Middle-earth vol. 7: The Treason of Isengard.
• 1989: Maggs Bros Autograph Letters & Historical Documents: Catalogue 1096. Includes letter.
• 1989: Mythlore 60. Includes Narqelion.
• 1989: Niekas, Issue 38. Includes quotes from letter.
• 1989: Oliphaunt (as a children's book; see also Oliphaunt (sheet), 1984).
• 1989: Vinyar Tengwar 6. Includes The Plotz Declension, Narqelion, and a letter to Jane Sibley.
• 1989: Vinyar Tengwar 8. Includes Full Chart of the Tengwar.

1990s

• 1990: Arda 1986. Includes the manuscript to The Clerkes Compleinte.
• 1990: C.S. Lewis: A Biography.
• 1990: George J. Houle Catalogue 54: Autographs. Includes letter.
• 1990: The History of Middle-earth vol. 8: The War of the Ring.
• 1990: Paul C. Richards Autographs Catalogue 249. Includes letter.
• 1990: Paul C. Richards Autographs Catalogue 251. Includes letter.
• 1990: Parma Eldalamberon 9. Includes Narqelion.
• 1990: Sotheby's English Literature and History 19 July 1990.
• 1990: Vinyar Tengwar, nr.12. Includes Narqelion.
• 1990: Vinyar Tengwar, nr.14. Includes The Elves at Koivienéni.

• 1991: Beyond Bree September 1991. Includes letter.
• 1991: The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth. Separate reprint.
• 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.
• 1991: Mythlore 65. Includes The Elves at Koivienéni.
• 1991: Sotheby's English Literature and History 18 July 1991. Includes excerpts from letters Letter to Miss Turnbull (11 March 1949), Letter to Miss Turnbull (2 May 1955), and Letter to Miss Turnbull (19 May 1955).
• 1991: Sotheby's The Library of Richard Manney 11 October 1991. Includes inscription.
• 1991: Three Early Poems.
• 1991: Tollett and Harman Catalogue 12. Includes letter.
• 1991: Word and Story in C.S. Lewis. Includes quotes from letter.
• 1991: Catalogue 37: Books from a Private Library (with Additions). Includes quotes from letter.

• 1992: Amon Hen 113. Includes quotes from a manuscript.
• 1992: Amon Hen 115. Includes quotes from notes.
• 1992: Basic Quenya. Includes The Plotz Declension.
• 1992: Christie's Printed Books 10 July 1992. Includes letter.
• 1992: The History of Middle-earth vol. 9: Sauron Defeated.
• 1992: Hobbits in Holland: Leven en werk van JRR Tolkien (1892-1973). Includes letter Letter to Mr Joukes.
• 1992: Mythlore 69. Includes a manuscript.
• 1992: R.A. Gekoski Catalogue 16. Includes letters.
• 1992: Sotheby's English Literature and History, Private Press and Illustrated Books, Related Drawings and Animation Art 21-22 July 1992.
• 1992: Sotheby's English Literature and History, Private Press and Illustrated Books and Related Drawings 14-15 December 1992. Includes letters.
• 1992: The Superior Galleries May 9th, 1992 Auction of Autographs, Manuscripts & Select Books. Includes letters.
• 1992: The Tolkien Family Album.
• 1992: Tolkien: Life and Legend. Exhibition catalogue. Bodleian Library.
• 1992: Tolkien in aller Welt: Eine Ausstellung der Inklings-Gesellschaft anläßlich des 100. Reproduces a letter.
• 1992: Vinyar Tengwar 21. Includes a tengwar inscription.
• 1992: Vinyar Tengwar 23. Includes a tengwar inscription.
• 1992: Vinyar Tengwar 26. Includes Uglúk to the Dung-pit.

• 1993: Esperanto USA. Vol.29, No.4. Includes Why I Support Esperanto (same as A Philologist on Esperanto).
• 1993: The History of Middle-earth vol. 10: Morgoth's Ring.
• 1993: Michael Silverman Catalogue Nine. Includes a letter.
• 1993: Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien: Volume I-III.
• 1993: Vinyar Tengwar 27. Includes facsimile of the Koivienéni manuscript.
• 1993: Vinyar Tengwar 28. Includes the Bodleian chart.
• 1993: Vinyar Tengwar, nr.29. Includes facsimile of the King's Letter.

• 1994: Poems from The Lord of the Rings
• 1994: Tyalië Tyelelliéva 1. Includes Lord of the Rings Heru i Million.
• 1994: Vinyar Tengwar, nr.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. Includes both illustrations and writings.
• 1995: La kunularo de l' ringo. Includes A Philologist on Esperanto.
• 1995: Mythos Journal (Winter 1995).
• 1995: Parma Eldalamberon, vol. 11. Includes I-Lam na-Ngoldathon: The Grammar and Lexicon of the Gnomish Tongue.
• 1995: The Poetical Cat: An Anthology. Includes a poem.
• 1995: Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
• 1995: Profiles in History: Catalogue 24. Includes inscription.
• 1995: Sotheby's Illustrated Books, Children's Books, Ephemera, Performing Arts & Related Drawings 4 May 1995. Includes letter.
• 1995: Tyalië Tyelelliéva 5. Includes phrase.
• 1995: Vinyar Tengwar, nr.37. Includes The Túrin Prose Fragments.

• 1996: The History of Middle-earth vol. 12: The Peoples of Middle-earth.
• 1996: Saga: Best New Writings on Mythology (Volume 1).

• 1997: Christie's Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts 26 November 1997. Includes letter.
• 1997: Imitating Fathers: Tradition, Inheritance and the Reproduction of Culture in Anglo-Saxon England.
• 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: Mallorn 36. Includes two letters.
• 1998: Parma Eldalamberon, vol. 12. Includes Qenyaqetsa: The Qenya Phonology and Lexicon.
• 1998: Roverandom.
• 1998: Sotheby's English Literature and History 17 December 1998. Includes dedication.
• 1998: Tyalië Tyelelliéva 12. Includes variant versions of Namárië.
• 1998: Vinyar Tengwar, nr.39. Includes From Quendi and Eldar, Appendix D and Ósanwe-kenta.

• 1999: Farmer Giles of Ham (50th Anniversary Edition). Includes previously unpublished material.
• 1999: Gerard A.J. Stodolski Catalogue 299. Includes letter.
• 1999: Modern Philology 96, no. 4. Includes a portion of a letter to Sir Henry Willink.
• 1999: Poems from The Hobbit
• 1999: Sunday Telegraph, 7 February. Includes quotes from a letter.
• 1999: Tolkien: A Celebration: Collected Writings on a Literary Legacy. Includes attributed quotes.
• 1999: Vinyar Tengwar, nr.40. Includes Narqelion.
• 1999: Waterfield's Catalogue 176. Includes pencilled statement co-signed by Tolkien.

2000s

• 2000: The End of the Third Age.
• 2000: SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary Review, Volume 17. Includes A Philologist on Esperanto and extracts from the Book of the Foxrook.
• 2000: Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth. Includes three stanzas of The Nameless Land.
• 2000: Vinyar Tengwar 41. Includes Etymological Notes on the Ósanwe-kenta, From The Shibboleth of Fëanor, and Notes on Óre.

• 2001: Christie's 20th Century Books and Manuscripts 16 November 2001. Includes letters and annotations in proof copies.
• 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 Literature, History and Illustrated Books 10 July 2001. Includes letter.
• 2001: Sotheby's Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts 13 December 2001. Includes several letters.
• 2001: Treasures from the Misty Mountains. Reproduces a postcard.
• 2001: Tyalië Tyelelliéva 18. Includes the prayers Átaremma and Aia María.
• 2001: Vinyar Tengwar 42. Includes The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor and quotes from manuscripts (Negation in Quenya).

• 2002: Amon Hen 173. Includes letter.
• 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 20th-Century Books and Manuscripts 6 December 2002. Includes quotes from three letters.
• 2002: Christie's Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts 24 May 2002. Includes Index questions and three letters.
• 2002: Pesma o Otruu i Itrun. Contains The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun in Serbian and English.
• 2002: Sotheby's Literature and Illustration 11-12 July 2002. Includes several letters.
• 2002: A Tolkien Miscellany. Includes several shorter writings.
• 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, Ortírielyanna, The Litany of Loreto, Ae Adar Nín, and Alcar mi tarmenel na Erun.
• 2002: W.H. Auden: A Legacy. Includes several letters.

• 2003: Christie's 20th Century Books and Manuscripts 2 December 2003. Includes letters.
• 2003: Dominic Winter Children's and Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions. Includes a letter to Agatha Carew Hunt.
• 2003: La Feuille de la Compagnie, no.2. Includes a letter to Milton Waldman (1951).
• 2003: Leaf by Niggle.
• 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 Evening Chronicle 3 September. Includes one-sentence quote from a letter to an unknown fan.
• 2004: The Invented Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien. Contains several manuscripts.
• 2004: Michael Silverman Catalogue 23. Includes extracts from a letter to Deirdre Levinson.
• 2004: Parma Eldalamberon issue 15. Contains Sí Qente Feanor and Other Elvish Writings.
• 2004: Sotheby's English Literature, History, Children's Books, Illustrations and Photographs 8 July 2004. Includes reproductions of several letters and proof copy notes.
• 2004: Sotheby's English Literature, History, Children's Books, and Illustrations 16 December 2004. Includes quotes from a letter.
• 2004: Tolkien Studies, vol. I. Includes Sir Orfeo.
• 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: Leski Auctions: Sport & General Memorabilia, 10th February 2005. Includes letter Letter to Mrs Souch.
• 2005: The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion. Includes several writings (including The Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings, a 1951 letter to Milton Waldman, etc.).
• 2005: Smith of Wootton Major (Critical Edition). Includes previously unpublished material.
• 2005: Tolkien Studies, vol. II. Includes contribution to "Gerald of Wales on the Survival of Welsh".
• 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: Bloomsbury Auctions: Manuscripts & Autograph Letters, Continental & English Literature and History, and Modern First Editions, 15th June 2006. Includes Letter to Michael Blashka (letter).
• 2006: Christie's Valuable Manuscripts and Printed Books 7 June 2006. Includes a letter to R.W. Burchfield.
• 2006: Christie's Valuable Print Books and Manuscripts 15 November 2006. Includes Elvish notes (e.g., the phrase "Arcastar Mondósaresse").
• 2006: The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy 1950-1963. Includes a portion of a letter to Sir Henry Willink.
• 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.
• 2006: Tolkien Studies: Volume 3. Includes manuscript and letter.

• 2007: Bloomsbury Auctions: Modern First Editions, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters, English and Continental Literature & History 24 May 2007. Includes reproductions of letters.
• 2007: The Children of Húrin.
• 2007: Christie's The Albin Schram Collection of Autograph Letters. Includes excerpts from Letter to Pauline Baynes (letter).
• 2007: The History of The Hobbit.
• 2007: La kunularo de l' ringo. Includes A Philologist on Esperanto.
• 2007: Parma Eldalamberon issue 17. Contains Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings.
• 2007: The Silmarillion, 30th Anniversary edition. Includes a letter and illustrations.
• 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' and extracts from unpublished drafts of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth.
• 2007: Vinyar Tengwar 49. Contains Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals and Related Writings — Part Three and Five Late Quenya Volitive Inscriptions.
• 2007: Tree of Tales. Includes a letter.

• 2008: Amon Hen 209. Includes verbal reminiscences.
• 2008: Bloomsbury Auctions: Modern First Editions, English & Continental Literature & History, Emblem Books, Economics & Law 13 March 2008. Includes a letter.
• 2008: Bonhams, Printed Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Photographs, London 4 November 2008. Includes quotes from letter to John Roberts, 22 August 1955.
• 2008: Lembas Extra: Proceedings of the 5th Unquendor Lustrum. Includes several unpublished letters.
• 2008: Mallorn 46. Includes The Battle of the Eastern Field.
• 2008: Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction. Includes The Dragon's Visit.
• 2008: Tolkien On Fairy-stories: Expanded edition, with commentary and notes.
• 2008: Tolkien Studies: Volume 5. Includes Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale and The Reeve's Tale.

• 2009: Black & White Ogre Country: The Lost Tales of Hilary Tolkien. Includes unpublished photographs and the letter Letter to Hilary Tolkien.
• 2009: The Book of Jonah.
• 2009: Christie's Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts 1 June 2009. Includes several letters.
• 2009: The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.
• 2009: Michael Silverman Catalogue 27. Includes a letter to Ronald Ashton.
• 2009: Parma Eldalamberon, issue 18. Contains Tengwesta Qenderinwa and Pre-Fëanorian Alphabets Part 2.
• 2009: Sotheby's English Literature, History, Children's Books and Illustrations 17 December 2009. Includes drawing Lamb's Farm, Gedling.
• 2009: Tolkien Studies: Volume 6. Includes Fate and Free Will and scholarly notes.

2010s

• 2010: Parma Eldalamberon, issue 19. Contains Quenya Phonology.
• 2010: SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary Review, Volume 27. Includes quotes from letters (and Language and Human Nature).
• 2010: Sotheby's The James S. Copley Library 17 June 2010. Includes excerpts from a letter to Evelyn B. Byrne.
• 2010: Tolkien Studies: Volume 7. Includes The Story of Kullervo and On the Kalevala.
• 2010: Wheelbarrows at Dawn: Memories of Hilary Tolkien.

• 2011: The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Includes previously unpublished pictures.
• 2011: Beowulf and the Critics: Revised Second Edition.
• 2011: Bonhams Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs 22 November 2011. Includes quotes from a 1957 letter.
• 2011: Christie's Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts 28 November 2011. Includes quotes from letters.
• 2011: The Ecological Augury in the Works of JRR Tolkien. Includes statement.
• 2011: The History of The Hobbit: One-volume Edition. Includes Addendum.
• 2011: Tolkien and the Study of His Sources. Includes quotations from letters and lecture notes on the Legends of the Goths.
• 2011: Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and Identity. Includes brief quotes from Pwyll and other manuscripts.
• 2011: A Tolkien Tapestry. Includes quotes from letters and recollections.

• 2012: Bonhams Books, Maps, Manuscripts and Historical Photographs 12 June 2012. Includes a letter to Miss Kilbride.
• 2012: Christie's Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts 19 June 2012. Includes letters.
• 2012: The Irish Times (17 March 2012). Includes quotes from letters.
• 2012: J.A. Stargardt Katalog 698. Includes quotes from letters.
• 2012: Letters from Father Christmas. Revised edition including new material.
• 2012: Parma Eldalamberon, issue 20. Contains The Qenya Alphabet.
• 2012: The Romance of the Middle Ages. Includes reproduction of a manuscript page.
• 2012: The Times Literary Supplement 14 September 2012. Includes quotes from letters.

• 2013: Amon Hen 242. Includes An Evening in Tavrobel.
• 2013: Christie's Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts 18 June 2013. Includes two letters.
• 2013: The Fall of Arthur.
• 2013: Fragments of a grammar of "Nala Lambe", published on the Lambengolmor mailing list.
• 2013: From Abjection to Alchemy: Tolkien's Middle-earth Legendarium.
• 2013: Hither Shore 9. Includes Two Swedish Interviews with J.R.R. Tolkien.
• 2013: Magical Tales: Myth, Legend and Enchantment in Children's Books.
• 2013: Mallorn 54. Includes attributed quotes.
• 2013: Mythlore 121/122. Includes quotations from letters.
• 2013: Parma Eldalamberon, issue 21. Contains Qenya Noun Structure.
• 2013: Tolkien Studies: Volume 10. Includes Once upon a Time.
• 2013: Vinyar Tengwar, issue 50. Contains the Túrin Wrapper.
• 2013: Ex Philologia Lux: Essays in honour of Leena Kahlas-Tarkka. Includes letter.

• 2014: The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book (expanded edition). Includes hard-to-find poems and formerly unpublished material.
• 2014: Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary. Also includes Sellic Spell.
• 2014: La Feuille de la Compagnie, vol.3. Includes Fragments on Elvish Reincarnation.
• 2014: Journal of Inklings Studies vol. 4, no. 2, October. Includes The Book of Jonah.
• 2014: Tolkien at Exeter College. Includes manuscripts, photographs, etc.
• 2014: Too Many Books and Never Enough (weblog). Includes letter.
• 2014: Writing Magazine. Includes letters.

• 2015: The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Includes previously unpublished pictures.
• 2015: A Brief History of The Hobbit.
• 2015: Parma Eldalamberon, issue 22. Contains The Feanorian Alphabet, Part 1 and Quenya Verb Structure.
• 2015: The Story of Kullervo.
• 2015: Tolkien Studies: Volume 12. Includes an obituary to Henry Bradley.

• 2016: A Secret Vice.
• 2016: The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun.
• 2016: Leaf by Niggle.

• 2017: Beren and Lúthien.
• 2017: J.R.R. Tolkien the Esperantist: Before the Arrival of Bilbo Baggins.
• 2017: The Times Literary Supplement (30 June). Includes "In her maiden bliss".
• 2017: Tolkien Studies: Volume 14. Includes manuscript notes and letters.

• 2018: The Fall of Gondolin
• 2018: The Hobbit Facsimile Gift Edition. Includes Dragons and audio material.
• 2018: Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth
• 2018: Tolkien Studies: Volume 15 (includes interview)

• 2019: Tolkien's Lost Chaucer

2020s

• 2020: A Secret Vice, revised edition.
• 2020: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo, Deluxe edition. Includes facsimiles of manuscript pages.
• 2020: The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth

• 2021: The Nature of Middle-earth

See also

• Audio recordings of J.R.R. Tolkien
• List of books in Tolkien's library
• Manuscripts by J.R.R. Tolkien related to the Legendarium
• Publications dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien
• Reminiscences of J.R.R. Tolkien
• Unpublished material
• Writings by year