This is a list of all published works of the English writer and
philologistJ. R. R. Tolkien. Tolkien's works were published before and after his death.
1929 Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad, published in Essays and Studies by members of the English Association, Oxford, volume 14, pp, 104–126.
1932 The Name 'Nodens', concerning the name
Nodens, published in Report on the Excavation of the Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, Oxford, University Press for The Society of Antiquaries.
1932–1934 Sigelwara Land parts I and II, in Medium Aevum, Oxford, volume 1, no, 3 (December 1932), pp, 183–196 and volume 3, no, 2 (June 1934), pp, 95–111.
1939 On Fairy-Stories (1939
Andrew Lang lecture) – concerning Tolkien's philosophy on fantasy, this lecture was a shortened version of an essay later published in full in 1947.
1944 Sir Orfeo, Oxford, The Academic Copying Office, 18 pp. (an edition of the medieval poem)
1947 On Fairy-Stories (essay – published in Essays presented to Charles Williams, Oxford University Press) – first full publication of an essay concerning Tolkien's philosophy on fantasy, and which had been presented in shortened form as the 1939
Andrew Lang lecture.
1953 Ofermod and Beorhtnoth's Death, two essays published with the poem The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son in Essays and Studies by members of the English Association, volume 6.
1953 Middle English "Losenger": Sketch of an etymological and semantic enquiry, published in Essais de philologie moderne: Communications présentées au Congrès International de Philologie Moderne (1951), Les Belles Lettres.
1958 The Old English Apollonius of Tyre, Oxford University Press – editorial prefatory note
1966 Foreword to the Second Edition of The Lord of the Rings, with Tolkien's comments on the varied reaction to his work, his motivation for writing the work, and his opinion of
allegory.
2002 Beowulf and the Critics ed. Michael D.C. Drout (Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics together with two drafts of the longer essay from which it was condensed)
2000 "From The Shibboleth of Fëanor" (written ca. 1968) Vinyar Tengwar 41, pp, 7–10 (A part of the Shibboleth of Fëanor was published in
The Peoples of Middle-earth, pp, 331–366)
1967 Poems and Songs of Middle-earth,
Caedmon TC 1231
1975 J. R. R. Tolkien Reads and Sings His The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Caedmon TC 1477, TC 1478 (based on an August 1952 recording by George Sayer)
^This essay was not finished and has never been published in its entirety, although parts of it were published in Unfinished Tales, and the remaining parts were published in the periodical Vinyar Tengwar, issue number 42 in 2001.
This is a list of all published works of the English writer and
philologistJ. R. R. Tolkien. Tolkien's works were published before and after his death.
1929 Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad, published in Essays and Studies by members of the English Association, Oxford, volume 14, pp, 104–126.
1932 The Name 'Nodens', concerning the name
Nodens, published in Report on the Excavation of the Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, Oxford, University Press for The Society of Antiquaries.
1932–1934 Sigelwara Land parts I and II, in Medium Aevum, Oxford, volume 1, no, 3 (December 1932), pp, 183–196 and volume 3, no, 2 (June 1934), pp, 95–111.
1939 On Fairy-Stories (1939
Andrew Lang lecture) – concerning Tolkien's philosophy on fantasy, this lecture was a shortened version of an essay later published in full in 1947.
1944 Sir Orfeo, Oxford, The Academic Copying Office, 18 pp. (an edition of the medieval poem)
1947 On Fairy-Stories (essay – published in Essays presented to Charles Williams, Oxford University Press) – first full publication of an essay concerning Tolkien's philosophy on fantasy, and which had been presented in shortened form as the 1939
Andrew Lang lecture.
1953 Ofermod and Beorhtnoth's Death, two essays published with the poem The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son in Essays and Studies by members of the English Association, volume 6.
1953 Middle English "Losenger": Sketch of an etymological and semantic enquiry, published in Essais de philologie moderne: Communications présentées au Congrès International de Philologie Moderne (1951), Les Belles Lettres.
1958 The Old English Apollonius of Tyre, Oxford University Press – editorial prefatory note
1966 Foreword to the Second Edition of The Lord of the Rings, with Tolkien's comments on the varied reaction to his work, his motivation for writing the work, and his opinion of
allegory.
2002 Beowulf and the Critics ed. Michael D.C. Drout (Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics together with two drafts of the longer essay from which it was condensed)
2000 "From The Shibboleth of Fëanor" (written ca. 1968) Vinyar Tengwar 41, pp, 7–10 (A part of the Shibboleth of Fëanor was published in
The Peoples of Middle-earth, pp, 331–366)
1967 Poems and Songs of Middle-earth,
Caedmon TC 1231
1975 J. R. R. Tolkien Reads and Sings His The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Caedmon TC 1477, TC 1478 (based on an August 1952 recording by George Sayer)
^This essay was not finished and has never been published in its entirety, although parts of it were published in Unfinished Tales, and the remaining parts were published in the periodical Vinyar Tengwar, issue number 42 in 2001.