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===[[The Dragon's Visit]]===
===[[The Dragon's Visit]]===
* Russian.
* French, Russian.


===[[English and Welsh]]===
===[[English and Welsh]]===
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===[[Goblin Feet]]===
===[[Goblin Feet]]===
* Russian.
* French, Russian.


===[[The Hobbit]]===
===[[The Hobbit]]===
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===Letters from Father Christmas (edn. with facsimiles)===
===Letters from Father Christmas (edn. with facsimiles)===
* Japanese,Portuguese (Brazilian).
* Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian).


===Letters from Father Christmas (enlarged edn. 1995)===
===Letters from Father Christmas (enlarged edn. 1995)===
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===Letters from Father Christmas (2004 edn.)===
===Letters from Father Christmas (2004 edn.)===
* Dutch, Finnish, German, Turkish.
* Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Turkish.


===Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien===
===Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien===
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===[[The Lost Road and Other Writings]]===
===[[The Lost Road and Other Writings]]===
* Spanish.
* French, Spanish.


===[[Mr. Bliss]]===
===[[Mr. Bliss]]===
* Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean,Portuguese (Brazilian),Span­ish, Swedish.
* Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean,Portuguese (Brazilian),Span­ish, Swedish.


===[[The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays]]===
===[[The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays]]===
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===[[The Shaping of Middle-earth]]===
===[[The Shaping of Middle-earth]]===
* Spanish.
* French, Spanish.


===[[The Silmarillion]]===
===[[The Silmarillion]]===
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===Smith of Wootton Major (2005 expanded edn.)===
===Smith of Wootton Major (2005 expanded edn.)===
* Italian.
* French (part), Italian.


===[[The Treason of Isengard]]===
===[[The Treason of Isengard]]===
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===[[The Fall of Arthur]]===
===[[The Fall of Arthur]]===
* Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Portugal),Spanish, Italian, French.
* French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Portugal), Spanish.


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Revision as of 13:17, 9 January 2015

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.

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.

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

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[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, 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, 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.

The Fall of Arthur

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

References

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

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