J.R.R. Tolkien
Books in Order by Date of Publication
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was a renowned British author philologist and university professor best known for his fantasy stories particularly 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy. His writing style was characterized by elaborate world-building intricate mythologies and a deep love for language drawing heavily from Norse and Celtic mythologies. Tolkien's works often explored themes of friendship sacrifice and the struggle between good and evil. His typical genres included fantasy adventure and mythology with a focus on creating immersive detailed environments. The popularity of his books lies in their ability to transport readers to richly imagined worlds populated by complex characters and engaging storylines. With a career spanning over four decades Tolkien published 176 books cementing his legacy as one of the most beloved and influential authors of the 20th century.
1. A Middle English vocabulary (1922) Buy on Amazon
2. Beowulf. the monsters and the critics (1936) Buy on Amazon
3. J.R.R. Tolkien reads and sings from his Lord Buy on Amazon
4. Sir Gawain & the Green Knight (1925) Buy on Amazon
5. Songs for the philologists (1936) Buy on Amazon
6. Essays Presented to Charles Williams (1947) Buy on Amazon
7. ON FAIRY-STORIES Buy on Amazon
8. The Hobbit (1937) Buy on Amazon
9. Farmer Giles of Ham (1949) Buy on Amazon
10. The Return of the King (1950) Buy on Amazon
11. Beowulf and Finnesburg Fragment (1950) Buy on Amazon
12. Middle English "Losenger" (1953) Buy on Amazon
13. The Lord of the Rings (1954) Buy on Amazon
14. The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) Buy on Amazon
15. The Two Towers (1954) Buy on Amazon
16. Novels (Fellowship of the Ring / Hobbit) (1954) Buy on Amazon
17. Pictures (1960) Buy on Amazon
18. The hobbit or There and back again (1960) Buy on Amazon
19. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book (1962) Buy on Amazon
20. Tree and Leaf (1964) Buy on Amazon
21. the habbit (1965) Buy on Amazon
22. THE TWO TOWERS BIENG THE SECOND PART OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1965) Buy on Amazon
23. The return of king (1965) Buy on Amazon
24. The Tolkien Reader (1966) Buy on Amazon
25. Smith of Wootton Major (1967) Buy on Amazon
26. Smith of Wooten Major and Farmer Giles of Ham (1967) Buy on Amazon
27. The road goes ever on (1967) Buy on Amazon
28. Poems and songs of Middle Earth (1967) Buy on Amazon
29. A tribute to Wystan Hugh Auden on his sixtieth birthday (1967) Buy on Amazon
30. Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham (1969) Buy on Amazon
31. Map Middle Earth (1972) Buy on Amazon
32. The hobbit the musical (1972) Buy on Amazon
33. The Lord of the Rings part two The Two Towers (1973) Buy on Amazon
34. Bilbo's Last Song (At the Grey Havens) (1974) Buy on Amazon
35. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Pearl and Sir Orfeo (1975) Buy on Amazon
36. Works (Adventures of Tom Bombadil / Farmer Giles of Ham) (1975) Buy on Amazon
37. Works (Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's son / Smith of Wootton Major / Tree and Leaf) (1975) Buy on Amazon
38. The Father Christmas letters (1976) Buy on Amazon
39. The Hobbit and Other Stories (Adventures of Tom Bombadil / Farmer Giles of Ham / Hobbit / Homecoming of Beorhtnoth / Smith of Wootton Major / Tree and Leaf) (1976) Buy on Amazon
40. The Silmarillion (1977) Buy on Amazon
41. The Silmarillion of Beren and Lúthien (1977) Buy on Amazon
42. FOLIO SOCIETY 3 Volumes (1977) Buy on Amazon
43. The Hobbit Desk Calendar 1978 (1977) Buy on Amazon
44. Of the darkening of Valinor and of the flight of the Noldor from The silmarillion (1978) Buy on Amazon
45. Novels (Hobbit / Lord of the Rings) (1979) Buy on Amazon
46. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1979) Buy on Amazon
47. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth (1980) Buy on Amazon
48. Poems and stories (1980) Buy on Amazon
49. Stories from the Third Age (1980) Buy on Amazon
50. The letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981) Buy on Amazon
51. The Old English Exodus (1981) Buy on Amazon
52. J.R.R. Tolkien-4 Vol. (Boxed) (1981) Buy on Amazon
53. Mr. Bliss (1982) Buy on Amazon
54. Finn and Hengest (1982) Buy on Amazon
55. The monsters and the critics and other essays (1983) Buy on Amazon
56. The Silmarillion. 2/3 (1983) Buy on Amazon
57. The book of lost tales (1984) Buy on Amazon
58. Works (Farmer Giles of Ham / Leaf by Niggle / Smith of Wootton Major) (1984) Buy on Amazon
59. The Hobbit. 2/? (1984) Buy on Amazon
60. The Fall of Gondolin (1985) Buy on Amazon
61. The Lays of Beleriand (1985) Buy on Amazon
62. Leaf by Niggle / Smith of Wootton Major (1985) Buy on Amazon
63. The Shaping of Middle-Earth (1986) Buy on Amazon
64. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1986) Buy on Amazon
65. Return of the King (1986) Buy on Amazon
66. The lost road and other writings (1987) Buy on Amazon
67. J.R.R. Tolkien (1987) Buy on Amazon
68. The Return of the Shadow (1988) Buy on Amazon
69. Raiders of Cardolan (Middle Earth Role Playing/MERP) (1988) Buy on Amazon
70. The Treason of Isengard (1989) Buy on Amazon
71. Oliphaunt (1989) Buy on Amazon
72. The 1990 J.R.R. Tolkein Calend (1989) Buy on Amazon
73. The War of the Ring (1990) Buy on Amazon
74. The 1991 J.R.R. Tolkein Calendar (1990) Buy on Amazon
75. Ancrene Riwle (1990) Buy on Amazon
76. HOBBIT BIRTHDAY BOOK (1991) Buy on Amazon
77. The Tolkien Diary 1992 (1991) Buy on Amazon
78. Sauron Defeated (1992) Buy on Amazon
79. Tolkien's Lost Tales (1992) Buy on Amazon
80. Tales from the Perilous Realm (1993) Buy on Amazon
81. Morgoth's Ring (1993) Buy on Amazon
82. Poems (1993) Buy on Amazon
83. Fellowship of the Ring (1993) Buy on Amazon
84. Two Towers (1993) Buy on Amazon
85. The war of the jewels (1994) Buy on Amazon
86. The End of the Third Age (1994) Buy on Amazon
87. Poems from The lord of the rings (1994) Buy on Amazon
88. Tolkien's World (1994) Buy on Amazon
89. Tolkien's Middle-Earth (1994) Buy on Amazon
90. One-Hundred-and-One Read-Aloud Classics (1995) Buy on Amazon
91. The peoples of Middle-Earth (1996) Buy on Amazon
92. Realms of Tolkien - Images of Middle-Earth (1996) Buy on Amazon
93. Tolkien Book of Days (1996) Buy on Amazon
94. Roverandom (1998) Buy on Amazon
95. The Silmarillion. 1/? (1998) Buy on Amazon
96. The Silmarillion. 3/3 (1998) Buy on Amazon
97. Tolkien Desk Diary (1998) Buy on Amazon
98. The Lord of the Rings. Appendices (1999) Buy on Amazon
99. Poems from The hobbit (1999) Buy on Amazon
100. The Tolkien Diary 1999 (1999) Buy on Amazon
101. The Tolkien 2001 Desk Diary (2000) Buy on Amazon
102. The History of the Lord of the Rings (2000) Buy on Amazon
103. Cal 01 Tolkien Wall Calendar (2000) Buy on Amazon
104. The Children of Húrin (2001) Buy on Amazon
105. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary (2001) Buy on Amazon
106. The history of Middle-Earth III (2001) Buy on Amazon
107. The Ring Sets Out (2001) Buy on Amazon
108. The Ring Goes East (2001) Buy on Amazon
109. The alphabet of Rúmil (2001) Buy on Amazon
110. Tolkien Diary 2002 (2001) Buy on Amazon
111. Tolkien 36bk Bin (2001) Buy on Amazon
112. Basil Bunting and J.R.R. Tolkien (Author Speaks) (2001) Buy on Amazon
113. Pearl and Sir Orfeoa (2001) Buy on Amazon
114. A Tolkien Miscellany (2002) Buy on Amazon
115. Beowulf and the critics (2002) Buy on Amazon
116. Last Song (2002) Buy on Amazon
117. The Complete History of Middle-Earth (2002) Buy on Amazon
118. Hobbit Calendar (2002) Buy on Amazon
119. The Histories of Middle Earth Volumes 1-5 (2003) Buy on Amazon
120. Tolkien Fantasy Tales (Silmarillion/ Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Tolkien Reader/Unfinished tales of Númenor and Middle-earth) (2003) Buy on Amazon
121. Sí Qente Feanor and other Elvish writings (2004) Buy on Amazon
122. Tolkien Diary (2004) Buy on Amazon
123. Tolkien Calendar (2004) Buy on Amazon
124. The invented worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien (2004) Buy on Amazon
125. The Hobbit Curriculum Unit (2004) Buy on Amazon
126. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Pearl Sir Orfeo (2005) Buy on Amazon
127. A Middle English Reader and Vocabulary (2005) Buy on Amazon
128. Tolkien Calendar 2006 (2005) Buy on Amazon
129. Early Elvish poetry and pre-Fëanorian alphabets (2006) Buy on Amazon
130. Lord of the Rings 2007 (2006) Buy on Amazon
131. Words phrases & passages in various tongues in The lord of the rings (2007) Buy on Amazon
132. Complete Tolkien Library (2007) Buy on Amazon
133. Tolkien On Fairy-stories (2008) Buy on Amazon
134. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009) Buy on Amazon
135. Tengwesta qenderinwa and pre-Fëanorian alphabets (2009) Buy on Amazon
136. Lost Road (2010) Buy on Amazon
137. Tolkien Calendar 2011 (2010) Buy on Amazon
138. Art of the Hobbit (2011) Buy on Amazon
139. English and Medieval Studies (2011) Buy on Amazon
140. Tolkien Calendar 2013 (2012) Buy on Amazon
141. The Qenya alphabet (2012) Buy on Amazon
142. The Fall of Arthur (2013) Buy on Amazon
143. Hobbit (2013) Buy on Amazon
144. Qenya noun structure (2013) Buy on Amazon
145. Ancrene Wisse (2013) Buy on Amazon
146. Beowulf (2014) Buy on Amazon
147. The Story of Kullervo (2015) Buy on Amazon
148. Treebeard (2015) Buy on Amazon
149. Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (2015) Buy on Amazon
150. Feanorian alphabet (2015) Buy on Amazon
151. Art of the Lord of the Rings (2015) Buy on Amazon
152. The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (2016) Buy on Amazon
153. A Secret Vice (2016) Buy on Amazon
154. Leaf by Niggle (2016) Buy on Amazon
155. Lost Manuscript (or the Books of the Kings) (2016) Buy on Amazon
156. Beren and Lúthien (2017) Buy on Amazon
157. Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Gift Set (2017) Buy on Amazon
158. Middle English Vocabulary (2017) Buy on Amazon
159. Complete History of Middle-Earth (2017) Buy on Amazon
160. Times Reference Atlas of the World (2017) Buy on Amazon
161. Tolkien-Like Journey from Elementary Nonliving Things to Emergent Living Things (2019) Buy on Amazon
162. Tolkien Calendar 2021 (2020) Buy on Amazon
163. History of Middle-Earth Part Three (2020) Buy on Amazon
164. History of Middle-Earth Part Two (2020) Buy on Amazon
165. History of Middle-Earth Part One (2020) Buy on Amazon
166. The Nature of Middle-Earth (2021) Buy on Amazon
167. Parma Eldalamberon 17 (2021) Buy on Amazon
168. Quenya Phonology (2021) Buy on Amazon
169. The Fall of Númenor (2022) Buy on Amazon
170. Battle of Maldon (2023) Buy on Amazon
171. History of Middle-Earth (2023) Buy on Amazon
172. History of the Hobbit (2023) Buy on Amazon
173. Tolkien Calendar 2024 (2023) Buy on Amazon
174. Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien (2024) Buy on Amazon
175. Fall of Númenor (2024) Buy on Amazon
176. Lord of the Rings (2024) Buy on Amazon
About J.R.R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was a renowned author and novelist best known for crafting intricate and imaginative worlds that captivated readers worldwide. Born in South Africa but raised in England Tolkien's unique experiences shaped his writing style and linguistic expertise. As a scholar and philologist he drew heavily from his studies of languages and mythology to create richly detailed settings and complex characters.
Tolkien's writing career spanned several decades during which he developed a distinct style characterized by meticulous world-building and an obsessive attention to detail. His books are renowned for their epic scope weaving multiple storylines and themes into a cohesive narrative. Readers adore his works for their ability to transport them to new and fantastical realms often evoking a sense of longing and nostalgia for a bygone era.
Throughout his series Tolkien explores universal themes such as friendship sacrifice and the struggle between good and evil. His writing is infused with a deep love for language and a sense of wonder which has endeared him to readers of all ages. As an author Tolkien's impact on popular culture is immeasurable inspiring countless adaptations interpretations and spin-offs of his work. His legacy continues to captivate readers cementing his status as one of the most beloved and respected authors of the 20th century. His writing has become synonymous with a sense of adventure discovery and timelessness.