First Published

When each work first went on sale in the United Kingdom, through the year from January to December, with the year it appeared and the anniversary it keeps in 2026.

January	Tales from the Perilous Realm	1997 29
5 January	Roverandom	1998 28
6 January	Sauron Defeated	1992 34
20 January	Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode	1983 43
28 January	The Old English Exodus	1982 44
24 February	A New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District	1927 99
3 March	The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays	1983 43
28 March	The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle	1968 58
17 April	The Children of Húrin	2007 19
23 April	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (edited with E.V. Gordon)	1925 101
1 May	The History of The Hobbit	2007 19
5 May	J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography	1977 49
5 May	The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún	2009 17
11 May	A Middle English Vocabulary	1922 104
21 May	The Fall of Arthur	2013 13
22 May	Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell	2014 12
28 May	Tree and Leaf	1964 62
29 May	Poems and Stories	1980 46
June	A Spring Harvest	1918 108
1 June	Beren and Lúthien	2017 9
1 July	Tolkien On Fairy-stories	2008 18
16 July	Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment	1940 86
29 July	The Fellowship of the Ring	1954 72
16 August	The Book of Lost Tales, Part II	1984 42
20 August	The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien	1981 45
21 August	The Shaping of Middle-earth	1986 40
22 August	The Lays of Beleriand	1985 41
23 August	The War of the Ring	1990 36
25 August	The Return of the Shadow	1988 38
27 August	The Lost Road and other writings	1987 39
27 August	The Story of Kullervo	2015 11
30 August	The Fall of Gondolin	2018 8
September	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo	1975 51
2 September	Letters from Father Christmas	1976 50
2 September	The Peoples of Middle-earth	1996 30
2 September	The Nature of Middle-earth	2021 5
7 September	The Treason of Isengard	1989 37
12 September	The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien	2024 2
15 September	The Silmarillion	1977 49
20 September	Mr. Bliss	1982 44
21 September	The Hobbit	1937 89
23 September	Morgoth’s Ring	1993 33
2 October	Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth	1980 46
4 October	Poems from The Hobbit	1999 27
20 October	Farmer Giles of Ham	1949 77
20 October	The Return of the King	1955 71
20 October	The War of the Jewels	1994 32
27 October	The Book of Lost Tales, Part I	1983 43
28 October	The Annotated Hobbit	1988 38
November	The Ancrene Riwle	1955 71
1 November	Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien	1979 47
3 November	The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun	2016 10
9 November	Smith of Wootton Major	1967 59
11 November	The Two Towers	1954 72
11 November	The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide	2006 20
15 November	The Fall of Númenor	2022 4
22 November	The Adventures of Tom Bombadil	1962 64
December	Essays Presented to Charles Williams	1947 79
7 December	Ancrene Wisse	1962 64
27 December	The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion	2005 21