J.R.R. Tolkien Books In Order

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J.R.R. or John Ronald Reuel Tolkien is a highly acclaimed fantasy author, born in South Africa in 1892. He is also popularly known as the Father of the High Fantasy. Times Magazine has ranked him as one of the greatest 50 authors since 1945. Some of his well-known book series are The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

The Lord of the Rings Books in Order (4 Books)

  1. The Hobbit (1937)
  2. The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
  3. The Two Towers (1954)
  4. The Return of the King (1955)

Middle-Earth Universe Books in Order (2 Books)

  1. Tolkien’s World: Paintings of Middle-Earth (1992)
  2. Poems From The Hobbit (1999)

The History of Middle-Earth Books in Order (8 Books)

  1. The Book of Lost Tales, Part One (1983)
  2. The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two (1983)
  3. The Lays of Beleriand (1985)
  4. The Shaping of Middle-earth (1986)
  5. The Lost Road and Other Writings (1987)
  6. The War of the Jewels (1994)
  7. The History of Middle Earth Index (2002)
  8. The Great Tales of Middle-Earth (2017)

History of the Lord of the Rings Collections in order (4 Books)

  1. The Return of the Shadow (1988)
  2. The Treason of Isengard (1989)
  3. The War of the Ring (1990)
  4. Sauron Defeated (1992)

Later Silmarillion Collections in Order (1 Book)

  1. Morgoth’s Ring: The Legends of Aman (1993)

Standalone Novels in Order (9 Books)

  1. The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945)
  2. Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)
  3. Drawings by Tolkien (1979)
  4. Roverandom (1998)
  5. The Children of Húrin (2007)
  6. The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún (2009)
  7. The Story of Kullervo (2010)
  8. Beren and Lúthien (2017)

Short Stories in Order (1 Book)

  1. Smith of Wootton Major (1967)

Short Story Collections in Order (13 Books)

  1. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962)
  2. Tree and Leaf (1964)
  3. The Tolkien Reader (1966)
  4. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (1975)
  5. Letters from Father Christmas (1976)
  6. The Silmarillion (1977)
  7. Poems and Stories (1980)
  8. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth (1980)
  9. The Peoples of Middle-earth (1996)
  10. Tales from the Perilous Realm (1997)
  11. A Tolkien Miscellany (2002)
  12. The Fall of Arthur (2013)

Picture Books in Order (3 Books)

  1. Bilbo’s Last Song (1990)
  2. Mr Bliss (1982)
  3. Oliphaunt (1989)

Non-Fiction Books in Order (7 Books)

  1. A Middle English Reader and Vocabulary (1922)
  2. Beowulf and the Critics (1936)
  3. Tolkien on Fairy-stories (1947)
  4. Father Christmas Letters (1976)
  5. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981)
  6. Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode (1982)
  7. The Monsters and the Critics: The Essays of J.R.R. Tolkien (1984)

Anthologies in Order (1 Book)

  1. The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories (1997)

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