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*Books
*Books
**''[[The Hobbit]]'' (see also ''[[The History of The Hobbit]]'' and ''[[The Annotated Hobbit: Revised and Expanded Edition|The Annotated Hobbit]]'')
**''[[The Hobbit]]''
**''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' (see also ''[[The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion]]'')
**''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''
**''[[The Adventures of Tom Bombadil]]''
**''[[The Adventures of Tom Bombadil]]''
**''[[The Road Goes Ever On (book)|The Road Goes Ever On]]''
**''[[The Road Goes Ever On (book)|The Road Goes Ever On]]'' (''[[Bilbo's Last Song]]'')
**''[[Bilbo's Last Song]]''
**''[[The Silmarillion]]''
**''[[The Silmarillion]]''
**''[[The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien]]'' (many of the letters discuss issues of the legendarium)
**''[[The Monsters and the Critics|The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays]]'' (see [[The Monsters and the Critics#Relation to the Legendarium|here]])
**''[[Unfinished Tales]]''
**''[[Unfinished Tales]]''
**''[[The History of Middle-earth]]''
**''[[The History of Middle-earth]]'' (12 volumes)
**''[[J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator]]'' (includes fragments of unpublished writings)
**''[[The Children of Húrin]]''
**''[[The Children of Húrin]]''
**''[[Beren and Lúthien]]''
**''[[Beren and Lúthien]]''
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**''[[The Nature of Middle-earth]]''
**''[[The Nature of Middle-earth]]''


*Journals and other media
*Books containing various texts and fragments
**''[[Vinyar Tengwar]]'' (various issues)
**''[[The History of The Hobbit]]'' and ''[[The Annotated Hobbit: Revised and Expanded Edition|The Annotated Hobbit]]''
**''[[Parma Eldalamberon]]'' (various issues)
**''[[The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion]]''
**''[[The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien]]''
**''[[The Monsters and the Critics|The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays]]'' (''[[A Secret Vice]]'')
**''[[J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator]]''
 
*Journals (mainly concerning Tolkien's linguistics)
**''[[Vinyar Tengwar]]'' (50 issues as of 2013)
**''[[Parma Eldalamberon]]'' (22 issues as of 2015)


===Pictures of the legendarium===
===Pictures of the legendarium===

Revision as of 04:10, 17 May 2022

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"For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!"
Aragorn, The Two Towers, "The Riders of Rohan"
J.R.R.Tolkien by Donato Giancola

The legendarium is the entirety of J.R.R. Tolkien's works concerning his imagined world of Arda.

Tolkien himself used the term,[1] and also referred to his "mythology" in the same sense.[2][3][4]

The term of legendarium is not the same as "canon". The legendarium includes all Tolkien's corpus in its entirety, even mutually contradicting versions, both earlier and later stages of its conception.

Published works by Tolkien on his legendarium

Writings of the legendarium

Here follows a list of all published texts by Tolkien relating to Arda. For a discussion of the "canonical" status of the texts, consult the page Canon.

Pictures of the legendarium

Other sources

More of Tolkien's vision of his legendarium can be found in interviews conducted with him. Hints of lesser value (i.e., hard to verify the authenticity), may also be found in reminiscences. There is also much material on the topic that remains unpublished, including many letters not published in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien.

References

  1. J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, pp. 149, 189, 197, 214
  2. J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, Humphrey Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, pp. 26, 131, 231, 307
  3. J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 135
  4. J.R.R. Tolkien, "Early Elvish Poetry and Pre-Fëanorian Alphabets", in Parma Eldalamberon XVI (edited by Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, Patrick H. Wynne, Carl F. Hostetter and Bill Welden), pp. 88, 92

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