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Below is a list of translations of J.R.R. Tolkien's works into different languages.

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book

Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian),Portuguese (European), Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish.

Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics

French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.

Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary

Dutch.

Bilbo's Last Song

Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese,Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian.

The Book of Lost Tales Part One and The Book of Lost Tales Part Two

Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.

The Children of Húrin

Dutch, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), SLovak, Spanish, Swedish, Russian,Turkish.

English and Welsh

French, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish.

The Fall of Arthur

Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish.

Farmer Giles of Ham

Aragonese, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish,Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Valencian.

Farmer Giles of Ham (earlier version of text)

French

Farmer Giles of Ham (50th anniversary edition, with earliest version and synopsis for sequel)

Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian).

The Father Christmas Letters (1976 format)

Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish. See also Letters from Father Christmas.

The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son

Czech, Dutch, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.

Leaf by Niggle

Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish,Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.

Letters from Father Christmas (edn. with facsimiles)

Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian).

Letters from Father Christmas (enlarged edn. 1995)

Polish.

Letters from Father Christmas (2004 edn.)

Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Turkish.

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Dutch, Finnish^[1], French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish.

The Lord of the Rings

Albanian, Armenian (possibly The Fellowship of the Ring only), Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian.

The Lost Road and Other Writings

French, Spanish.

Mr. Bliss

Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean,Portuguese (Brazilian),Spanish, Swedish.

The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays

See under constituent parts: Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics; Prefatory Remarks on Prose Translation of'Beowulf (= On Translating Beowulf); Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; On Fairy-Stories; English and Welsh; A Secret Vice; Valedictory Address.

Morgoth's Ring

Spanish.

Mythopoeia

Danish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish.

On Fairy-Stories

Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish,Portuguese (Brazilian),Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish.

On Translating Beowulf

French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.

The Peoples of Middle-earth

Spanish.

Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien

French, Italian, Spanish.

The Return of the Shadow

Spanish.

The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle

German, Russian (part).

Roverandom

Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish,Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish.

Sauron Defeated

Spanish (in two volumes).

A Secret Vice

French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish.

The Shaping of Middle-earth

French, Spanish.

The Silmarillion

Bulgarian, Croatian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (lecture)

French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo

Japanese, Polish.

Smith of Wootton Major

Afrikaans, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (European), Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Valencian.

Smith of Wootton Major (2005 expanded edn.)

French (part), Italian.

The Treason of Isengard

Spanish.

Tree and Leaf

See On Fairy-Stories, Leaf by Niggle.

Unfinished Tales

Bulgarian, Croatian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian),Portuguese (European), Russian, Spanish, Swedish.

Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford (Monsters and the Critics version)

French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish.

The War of the Jewels

Spanish

The War of the Ring

Spanish.

References

↑ "Kirjeet", AdLibris.com (accessed 3 March 2013)

Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide

[1] "Kirjeet", AdLibris.com (accessed 3 March 2013)

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-According to [http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/ Harper Collins Publishers'] [http://www.tolkien.co.uk/frame.asp Tolkien website] [[The Lord of the Rings]] and/or [[The Hobbit]] have been translated in 39 languages. The list they give is the following:
+Below is a list of '''translations''' of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s works into different languages.
-Basque<br>
+===[[The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book]]===
-Breton<br>
+* Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian),Portuguese (European), Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish.
-Bulgarian<br>
-Catalan<br>
-Chinese - Simple<br>
-Chinese - Complex<br>
-Croatian<br>
-Czech<br>
-Danish<br>
-Dutch<br>
-Estonian<br>
-Finnish<br>
-French<br>
-Galician<br>
-German<br>
-Greek<br>
-Hebrew<br>
-Hungarian<br>
-Icelandic<br>
-Indonesian<br>
-Italian<br>
-Japanese<br>
-Korean<br>
-Latvian<br>
-Lithuanian<br>
-Marathi<br>
-Norwegian<br>
-Polish<br>
-Portuguese (European)<br>
-Portuguese (Brazilian)<br>
-Romanian<br>
-Russian<br>
-Serbian<br>
-Slovak<br>
-Slovenian<br>
-Spanish<br>
-Swedish<br>
-Thai<br>
-Turkish<br>
-Furthermore, there's the ongoing project of translating [[The Lord of the Rings]] into Latin, named [http://www.geocities.com/dominusanulorum/ Dominus Anulorum]].
+===[[Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics]]===
+* French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.
+===[[Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary]]===
+* Dutch.
+===[[Bilbo's Last Song]]===
+* Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese,Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian.
+===[[The Book of Lost Tales Part One]] and [[The Book of Lost Tales Part Two]]===
+* Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.
+===[[The Children of Húrin]]===
+* Dutch, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), SLovak, Spanish, Swedish, Russian,Turkish.
+===[[The Dragon's Visit]]===
+* French, Russian.
+===[[English and Welsh]]===
+* French, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish.
+===[[The Fall of Arthur]]===
+* Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish.
+===[[Farmer Giles of Ham]]===
+* Aragonese, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Faeroese, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish,Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Valencian.
+===Farmer Giles of Ham (earlier version of text)===
+* French
+===Farmer Giles of Ham (50th anniversary edition, with earliest version and synopsis for sequel)===
+* Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian).
+===[[The Father Christmas Letters]] (1976 format)===
+* Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish. See also Letters from Father Christmas.
+===[[Goblin Feet]]===
+* French, Russian.
+===[[The Hobbit]]===
+* ''See [[The Hobbit#Translations|The Hobbit: Translations]]''
+===[[The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth|The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son]]===
+* Czech, Dutch, French, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.
+===[[Imram]]===
+* Norwegian, Russian.
+===[[The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun]]===
+* Russian, Serbian.
+===[[The Lays of Beleriand]]===
+* French, Spanish.
+===[[Leaf by Niggle]]===
+* Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish,Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.
+===Letters from Father Christmas (edn. with facsimiles)===
+* Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian).
+===Letters from Father Christmas (enlarged edn. 1995)===
+* Polish.
+===Letters from Father Christmas (2004 edn.)===
+* Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Turkish.
+===Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien===
+* Dutch, Finnish<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.adlibris.com/fi/product.aspx?isbn=9510346861|articlename=Kirjeet|dated=|website=[http://www.adlibris.com AdLibris.com]|accessed=3 March 2013}}</ref>, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish.
+===[[The Lord of the Rings]]===
+* Albanian, Armenian (possibly The Fellowship of the Ring only), Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian.
+===[[The Lost Road and Other Writings]]===
+* French, Spanish.
+===[[Mr. Bliss]]===
+* Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean,Portuguese (Brazilian),Spanish, Swedish.
+===[[The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays]]===
+See under constituent parts: Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics; Prefatory Remarks on Prose Translation of'Beowulf (= On Translating Beowulf); Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; On Fairy-Stories; English and Welsh; A Secret Vice; Valedictory Address.
+===[[Morgoth's Ring]]===
+* Spanish.
+===[[Mythopoeia]]===
+* Danish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish.
+===[[On Fairy-Stories]]===
+* Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish,Portuguese (Brazilian),Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish.
+===[[On Translating Beowulf]]===
+* French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.
+===[[The Peoples of Middle-earth]]===
+* Spanish.
+===[[Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien]]===
+* French, Italian, Spanish.
+===[[The Return of the Shadow]]===
+* Spanish.
+===[[The Road Goes Ever On (book)|The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle]]===
+* German, Russian (part).
+===[[Roverandom]]===
+* Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish,Portuguese (Brazilian), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish.
+===[[Sauron Defeated]]===
+* Spanish (in two volumes).
+===[[A Secret Vice]]===
+* French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish.
+===[[The Shaping of Middle-earth]]===
+* French, Spanish.
+===[[The Silmarillion]]===
+* Bulgarian, Croatian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.
+===[[W.P. Ker Lecture|Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]] (lecture)===
+* French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish.
+===[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo]]===
+* Japanese, Polish.
+===[[Smith of Wootton Major]]===
+* Afrikaans, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (European), Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Valencian.
+===Smith of Wootton Major (2005 expanded edn.)===
+* French (part), Italian.
+===[[The Treason of Isengard]]===
+* Spanish.
+===[[Tree and Leaf]]===
+* See On Fairy-Stories, Leaf by Niggle.
+===[[Unfinished Tales]]===
+* Bulgarian, Croatian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian),Portuguese (European), Russian, Spanish, Swedish.
+===Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford (Monsters and the Critics version)===
+* French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish.
+===[[The War of the Jewels]]===
+* Spanish
+===[[The War of the Ring]]===
+* Spanish.
+{{references}}
+<small>{{CG|CG}}</small>
+[[Category:Tolkien Gateway research]]
+[[Category:Translators|Translators]]
+[[Category:Non-English publications]]

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