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With long running series and prolific authors, I always forget which books I have and have not read. I use these page to keep track of the books in the series and which ones I've read.

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Fiction

Order	Title	Read?
1936	Songs for the Philologists (with E.V. Gordon et al.)	no
1937	The Hobbit or There and Back Again (ISBN 0-618-00221-9, Houghton Mifflin)	Yes
1945	Leaf by Niggle (short story)	no
1945	The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (published in Welsh Review)	no
1949	Farmer Giles of Ham (medieval fable)	no
1953	The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (a play written in alliterative verse, published with the accompanying essays Beorhtnoth's Death and Ofermod, in Essays and Studies by members of the English Association, volume 6.)	no
The Lord of the Rings
1954	The Fellowship of the Ring: being the first part of The Lord of the Rings (ISBN 0-618-00222-7 HM)	Yes
1954	The Two Towers: being the second part of The Lord of the Rings (ISBN 0-618-00223-5 HM)	Yes
1955	The Return of the King: being the third part of The Lord of the Rings (ISBN 0-618-00224-3 HM)	Yes

1962	The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book	no
1964	Tree and Leaf (On Fairy-Stories and Leaf by Niggle in book form)	no
1966	Bilbo's Last Song (poem)	no
1966	The Tolkien Reader (The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, On Fairy-Stories, Leaf by Niggle, Farmer Giles of Ham, and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil)	no
1967	The Road Goes Ever On (with Donald Swann)	no
1967	Smith of Wootton Major (short story)	no

Posthumous publications

Order	Title	Read?
1975	''[[Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings]]'' (edited version) - published in ''[[A Tolkien Compass]]'' by [[Jared Lobdell]]. Written by Tolkien for use by translators of ''The Lord of the Rings'', a full version, re-titled "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings," was published in 2005 in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion]]'' by [[Wayne G. Hammond]] and [[Christina Scull]] ISBN 0-618-64267-6.	no
1975	Translations of ''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'', ''[[Pearl (poem)\|Pearl]]'' and ''[[Sir Orfeo]]''	no
1976	''[[The Father Christmas Letters]]''	no
1977	''[[The Silmarillion]]'' ISBN 0-618-12698-8 (HM).	no
1979	''Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien''	no
1980	''[[Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth]]'' ISBN 0-618-15405-1 (HM).	no
1980	''Poems and Stories'' (a compilation of ''[[The Adventures of Tom Bombadil]]'', ''The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son'', ''[[On Fairy-Stories]]'', ''[[Leaf by Niggle]]'', ''[[Farmer Giles of Ham]]'' and ''[[Smith of Wootton Major]]'')	no
1981	''[[The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien]]'' (eds. [[Christopher Tolkien]] and [[Humphrey Carpenter]])	no
1981	''The Old English "Exodus" Text'' translation and commentary by J. R. R. Tolkien; edited by [[Joan Turville-Petre]]. Clarendon Press, Oxford	no
1982	''[[Finn and Hengest]]: The Fragment and the Episode''	no
1982	''[[Mr. Bliss]]''	no
1983	''[[The Monsters and the Critics]]'' (an essay collection) ''[[Beowulf: the monsters and the critics\|Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics]]'' (1936) ''[[On Translating Beowulf]]'' (1940) ''[[On Fairy-Stories]]'' (1947) ''[[A Secret Vice]]'' (1930) **''[[English and Welsh]]'' (1955)	no
1983–1996 ''[[The History of Middle-earth]]''
1983	''[[The Book of Lost Tales\|The Book of Lost Tales 1]]''	no
1984	''[[The Book of Lost Tales\|The Book of Lost Tales 2]]''	no
1985	''[[The Lays of Beleriand]]''	no
1986	''[[The Shaping of Middle-earth]]''	no
1987	''[[The Lost Road and Other Writings]]''	no
1988	''[[The History of The Lord of the Rings\|The Return of the Shadow]]'' (The History of ''The Lord of the Rings'' vol. 1)	no
1989	''[[The History of The Lord of the Rings\|The Treason of Isengard]]'' (The History of ''The Lord of the Rings'' vol. 2)	no
1990	''[[The History of The Lord of the Rings\|The War of the Ring]]'' (The History of ''The Lord of the Rings'' vol. 3)	no
1992	''[[The History of The Lord of the Rings\|Sauron Defeated]]'' (The History of ''The Lord of the Rings'' vol. 4, including [[The Notion Club Papers]])	no
1993	''[[Morgoth's Ring]]'' (The Later Silmarillion vol. 1)	no
1994	''[[The War of the Jewels]]'' (The Later Silmarillion vol. 2)	no
1996	''[[The Peoples of Middle-earth]]''	no
2002	''Index''	no

1995	''[[J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator]]'' - a compilation of Tolkien's art	no
1998	''[[Roverandom]]''	no
2002	''[[A Tolkien Miscellany]]'' - a collection of previously published material	no
2002	''[[Beowulf and the Critics]]'' ed. Michael D.C. Drout (''Beowulf: the monsters and the critics'' together with editions of two drafts of the longer essay from which it was condensed.)	no
2005	''[[Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings]]'' (full version) - published in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion]] '' by [[Wayne G. Hammond]] and [[Christina Scull]] ISBN 0-618-64267-6. Re-titled to "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings" in this book. Written by Tolkien for use by translators of ''The Lord of the Rings'', an edited version had been published in 1975 in ''[[A Tolkien Compass]]'' by [[Jared Lobdell]].	no
2007	The Children of Húrin	Yes
2007	''[[The History of The Hobbit]]'' by John D. Rateliff – contains substantial text fragments	no
2008	''[[Tales from the Perilous Realm]]'' (a compilation of ''[[Roverandom]]'', ''[[Farmer Giles of Ham]]'', ''[[The Adventures of Tom Bombadil]]'', ''[[Leaf by Niggle]]'' and ''[[Smith of Wootton Major]]'')	no
2009	The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún	no

Poetry

This is a list of '''poems''' written by J. R. R. Tolkien (years are the date of composition, if not stated otherwise) * ''The Battle of the Eastern Field'' 1911 * ''From the many-willow'd margin of the immemorial Thames'' 1913 * ''The Voyage of Eärendel the Evening Star'' (''[[The Book of Lost Tales|The Book of Lost Tales 2]]'' 267–269) 1914 * ''The Bidding of the Minstrel'' 1914 (''[[The Book of Lost Tales|The Book of Lost Tales 2]]'' 261f.,269f. ) * ''Tinfang Warble'' 1914 (''[[The Book of Lost Tales|The Book of Lost Tales 1]]'' 107f.) * ''Goblin Feet'' 1915 * ''You and Me / and the Cottage of Lost Play'' 1915 (''[[The Book of Lost Tales|The Book of Lost Tales 1]]'' 27f.) * ''Kôr'' 1915, published as ''The City of the Gods'' in 1923 (''[[The Book of Lost Tales|The Book of Lost Tales 1]]'' 136) * ''Kortirion among the Trees'' 1915 (revised in 1937 and in the 1960s, ''The Trees of Kortirion'') * ''Over Old Hills and Far Away'' 1915 * ''A Song of Aryador'' 1915 * ''The Shores of Elfland'' 1915 * ''Habbanan beneath the Stars'' 1916 * ''The Sorrowful City'' 1916 * ''The Song of Eriol'' 1917 (''[[The Book of Lost Tales|The Book of Lost Tales 2]]'' 298ff.) * ''The Horns of Ulmo'' 1917 * ''The Happy Mariners'', published in 1920, composed in 1915 *''The Children of Húrin'' (begun in 1920 or earlier, continued to 1925) (''[[The Lays of Beleriand]]'') * ''The Clerke's Compleinte'' 1922 * ''Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden'' 1923 * ''The Eadigan Saelidan'' 1923 * ''Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon'' 1923 * ''Enigmala Saxonic - a Nuper Inventa Duo'' 1923 * ''The Cat and the Fiddle: A Nursery-Rhyme Undone and its Scandalous Secret Unlocked'' 1923 * ''An Evening in Tavrobel'' 1924 * ''The Lonely Isle'' 1924 * ''The Princess Ni'' 1924 * ''Light as Leaf on Lindentree'' 1925 * ''The Flight of the Noldoli from Valinor'' 1925 (''[[The Lays of Beleriand]]'') * ''The Lay of Leithian'' 1925–1931 (''[[The Lays of Beleriand]]'') * ''The Lay of Eärendel'' 1920s (''[[The Lays of Beleriand]]'') * ''The Nameless Land'' 1926 * ''Adventures in Unnatural History and Medieval Metres, being the Freaks of Fisiologus'' 1927: :* ''Fastitocalon'' :* ''Iumbo'' * ''Tinfang Warble'', published in 1927, composed in 1914 * ''[[Mythopoeia (genre)|Mythopoeia]]'', circa 1931 (published in ''[[Tree and Leaf]]'')republished in various editions, lately in the 1999 edition of ''Tree and Leaf'' in the UK only. * ''Progress in Bimble Town'' 1931 * ''[[Errantry]]'' 1933 * ''Firiel'' 1934 * ''Looney'' 1934 * ''[[Songs for the Philologists]]'', with E.V. Gordon ''et al.'', published 1936: :* ''Bagme Bloma'' :* ''Éadig Béo þu!'' :* ''Frenchmen Froth'' :* ''From One to Five'' :* ''I Sat upon a Bench'' :* ''Ides Ælfscýne'' :* ''La Húru'' :* ''Lit and Lang'' :* ''Natura Apis: Morali Ricardi Eremite'' :* ''Ofer Wídne Gársecg'' :* ''The Root of the Boot'' :* ''Ruddoc Hana'' :* ''Syx Mynet'' * ''The Dragon's Visit'' 1937 * ''Knocking at the Door: Lines induced by sensations when waiting for an answer at the door of an Exalted Academic Person'' 1937 * ''[[The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun]]'', published in Welsh Review, December 1945 * ''Imram'' (''The Death of [[St. Brendan]]'') 1946 (published in ''Time and Tide'', December 1955, ''[[The History of The Lord of the Rings|Sauron Defeated]]'' 261ff,296ff) * Elvish translations of [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] prayers (ed. Wynne, Smith, Hostetter in [[Vinyar Tengwar]] 43, 44, 2002), composed in the 1950s: :*''Ataremma versions'' (Quenya ''[[Pater Noster]]'') versions I-VI :*''Aia María'' (Quenya ''[[Hail Mary|Ave Maria]]'') versions I-IV :*''Litany of [[Loreto (Italy)|Loreto]]'' in Quenya :*''Ortírielyanna'' (Quenya ''[[Sub tuum praesidium]]'') :*''Alcar i Ataren'' (Quenya ''[[Gloria Patri]]'') :*''Alcar mi tarmenel na Erun'' (Quenya ''[[Gloria in Excelsis Deo]]'') :*''Ae Adar Nín'' (Sindarin ''Pater Noster'') * ''[[The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son]]'' 1953 * ''[[The Adventures of Tom Bombadil]]'' published in 1962: :* ''The Adventures of Tom Bombadil'' :* ''Bombadil Goes Boating'' :* ''Errantry'' :* ''Little Princess Mee'' :* ''The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late'' :* ''The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon'' :* ''The Stone Troll'' :* ''Perry-the-Winkle'' :* ''The Mewlips'' :* ''Oliphaunt'' :* ''Fastitocalon'' :* ''The Cat'' :* ''Shadow-Bride'' :* ''The Hoard'' :* ''[[The Sea-Bell]]'' :* ''The Last Ship'' * ''Once upon a time'' 1965 * ''[[Bilbo's Last Song]]'' 1966 (first published as a poster in 1974) * ''For W. H. A.'' in 1967 in Shenandoah * ''[[King Sheave]]'' in ''The Lost Road'' in 1987 in ''[[The Lost Road and Other Writings]]'' * ''Narqelion'' published in 1988 in Mythlore

Posthumous publications

==Academic and other works== *1922 ''[http://www.archive.org/details/middleenglishvoc00tolkuoft A Middle English Vocabulary]'', [[Oxford]], [[Clarendon Press]], 168 pp. *1925 ''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'', co-edited with [[E.V. Gordon]], [[Oxford University Press]], 211 pp.; Revised edition 1967, [[Oxford]], [[Clarendon Press]], 232 pp. *1925 ''Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography'', published in ''The Review of English Studies'', volume 1, no. 2, pp. 210–215. *1925 ''[[The Devil's Coach Horses]]'', published in ''The Review of English Studies'', volume 1, no. 3, pp. 331–336. *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. *1932–34 ''[[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. *1934 ''Chaucer as a Philologist: [[The Reeve's Prologue and Tale|The Reeve's Tale]]'', in ''Transactions of the Philological Society'', London, pp. 1–70 (rediscovery of dialect humour, introducing the [[Hengwrt manuscript]] into textual criticism of [[Chaucer]]'s ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'') *1937 ''[[Beowulf: the monsters and the critics|Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics]]'', London, Humphrey Milford, 56 pp. (publication of his 1936 lecture on [[Beowulf]] criticism) *1939 ''The Reeve's Tale: version prepared for recitation at the 'summer diversions''', Oxford, 14 pp. *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. *1962 ''[[Ancrene Wisse]]: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle'', Early English Text Society, [[Oxford University Press]]. *1963 ''[[English and Welsh]]'', in ''Angles and Britons: O'Donnell Lectures'', University of Cardiff Press. *1964 Introduction to ''[[Tree and Leaf]]'', with details of the composition and history of ''[[Leaf by Niggle]]'' and ''[[On Fairy-Stories]]''. *1966 Contributions to the ''[[Jerusalem Bible]]'' (as translator and [[lexicographer]]) *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]]. *1966 ''Tolkien on Tolkien'' (autobiographical)

Audio recordings

*1967 ''Poems and Songs of Middle-earth'', Caedmon TC 1231 *1975 ''J. R. R. Tolkien Reads and Sings his The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings'', Caedmon TC 1477, TC 1478 (based on an August, 1952 recording by George Sayer)

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