A Middle English Vocabulary (glossary) 1922

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight [translator; with E. V. Gordon] (poetry) 1925

The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again (novel) 1937

Farmer Giles of Ham (short stories) 1949

The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings (novel) 1954

The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings (novel) 1954

The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings (novel) 1955

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book (poetry) 1962

Tree and Leaf [includes “On Fairy-Stories” and “Leaf by Niggle”] (essay and short story) 1964

*The Lord of the Rings [foreword by Tolkien] (novel) 1966

The Tolkien Reader (poetry and short stories) 1966

The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle (lyrics) 1967

Smith of Wooton Major (novel) 1967

The Father Christmas Letters (novel) 1976

The Silmarillion (novel) 1977

Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth (short stories) 1980

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (letters) 1981

The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (essays) 1983

Bilbo's Last Song (verse) 1990

*This trilogy includes the novels The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), The Two Towers (1954), and The Return of the King (1955).