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J.R.R. Tolkien Bibliography

Can you guess J.R.R. Tolkien's legendary bibliography?
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#1
Poems
1911
The Battle of the Eastern Field
1913
From the Many Willow'd Margin of the Immemorial Thames
1914
The Voyage of Eärendel the Evening Star
1914
The Bidding of the Minstrel
1914
Tinfang Warble
1915
Goblin Feet
1915
You and Me / The Cottage of Lost Play
1915
Kôr
1915
Kortirion Among the Trees
1915
Over Old Hills and Far Away
1915
A Song of Aryador
1915
The Shores of Elfland
1915
Princess Mee
1915
Empty Chapel
1916
Habbanan Beneath the Stars
1916
The Sorrowful City
1916
Once Upon a Time
1917
The Song of Eriol
1917
The Horns of Ulmo
1920
The Happy Mariners
1920
The Children of Húrin
1922
The Clerke's Compleinte
1922
The Hoard
1923
Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden
1923
The Eadigan Saelidan
1923
The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late
1923
The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon
1923
Enigmata Saxonic - A Nuper Inventa Duo
1923
The Cat and the Fiddle: A Nursery-Rhyme Undone and its Scandalous Secret Unlocked
1923-1924
The Stone Troll
1924
An Evening in Tavrobel
1924
The Lonely Isle
1924
The Princess Ni
1924
From One to Five
1924
Ruddoc Hana
1924
Ides Ælfscýne
1924
Bagmē Blōma
1924
Éadig Béo þu!
1924
Ofer Wídne Gársecg
1924
I Sat upon a Bench
1924
Frenchmen Froth
1924
Two Little Schemes: Lit' and Lang
1925
Light as Leaf on Linden-tree
1925
The Flight of the Noldoli from Valinor
1925
The Lay of Leithian
1925
Ir Ithil ammen Eruchín
1925
He Chanted a Song of Wizardry
1926
The Nameless Land
1927
Adventures in Unnatural History and Mediaeval Metres, Being the Freaks of Fisiologus
1927
The Mewlips
1927
Oliphaunt
1927
Fastitocalon
1928
Perry-the-Winkle: A Nursery Rhyme in the House of Master Samwise
1928
Syx Mynet
1928
Lá, Húru
1928
Natura Apis: Morali Ricardi Eremite
Early 1930s
The New Lay of the Völsungs
Early 1930s
The New Lay of Gudrún
1930s
The Fall of Arthur
1930
Bealuwérig
1931
Mythopoeia
1931
Progress in Bimble Town
1931-1932
The Prophecy of the Sibyl
1931-1932
Völsungakviða en nýja eða Sigurðarkviða en mesta
1931-1932
Guðrúnarkviða en nýja eða Dráp Niflunga
1931-1934
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
1931-1934
Monday Morning
1933
Errantry
1933
The Last Ship
1934
Firiel
1934
Looney
1936
Shadow-Bride
1937
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
1945
The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun
1946
Ingram (The Death of St. Brendan)
1950s
Elvish Translations of Catholic Prayers
1954
Scatha the Worm
1956
Cat
1957-1960
Domine defende nos contra hos Motores bos!
1961-1962
Bombadil Goes Boating
1961-1962
The Complaint of Mîm the Dwarf
1962
The Sea-Bell
1966
Bilbo's Last Song
1967
For W. H. A.
1987
King Sheave
1988
Narqelion
#2
Short Stories
1917
The Tale of Beren and Lúthien
1945
Leaf by Niggle
1957
The End of Bovadium
 
 
#3
Essays
1922
A Middle English Vocabulary
1925
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1925
Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography
1925
The Devil's Coach Horses
1929
Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad
1931
A Secret Vice
1932
The Name 'Nodens'
1932-1934
Sigelwara Land
1934
Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale
1936
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
1939
On Fairy-Stories
1940
On Translating Beowulf
1944
Sir Orfeo
1953
Ofermod
1953
Beorhtnoth's Death
1953
Middle English "Losenger": Sketch of an Etymological and Semantic Enquiry
1958
The Old English Apollonius of Tyre
1962
Ancrene Wisse
1963
English and Welsh
1969
The Rivers and Beacon-Hills of Gondor
2002
Beowulf and the Critics
 
 
#4
Songs
1925
Lúthien Tinúviel
1937
The Road Goes Ever On
1954
Upon the Hearth the Fire Is Red
1954
Namárië
1954
I Sit Beside the Fire
1954
A Elbereth Gilthoniel
1955
In Western Lands
1967
In the Willow-meads of Tasarinan
1967
Errantry
1967
Bilbo's Last Song
 
 
#5
Poetry Collections
1936
Songs for the Philologists
1962
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book
2009
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
2024
The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien
 
 
#6
Novels
1937
The Hobbit
1954
The Fellowship of the Ring
1954
The Two Towers
1955
The Return of the King
 
 
#7
Comic Fable
1949
Farmer Giles of Ham
#8
Play
1953
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son
 
 
#9
Writings Collections
1964
Tree and Leaf
1966
The Tolkien Reader
1977
The Silmarillion
1980
Poems and Stories
2002
A Tolkien Miscellany
2008
Tales from the Perilous Realm
2021
The Nature of Middle-earth
2022
The Fall of Númenor
2025
The Bovadium Fragments: Together with The Origin of Bovadium
 
 
#10
Autobiography
1966
Tolkien on Tolkien
 
 
#11
Song Cycle
1967
The Road Goes Ever On
 
 
#12
Novellas
1967
Smith of Wootton Major
1998
Roverandom
 
 
#13
Letter Collections
1976
The Father Christmas Letters
1981
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
 
 
#14
Illustration Books
1979
Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien
1995
J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator
 
 
#15
Short Story Collections
1980
Unfinished Tales
1983
The Book of Lost Tales
1984
The Book of Lost Tales 2
1985
The Lays of Beleriand
1986
The Shaping of Middle-Earth
1987
The Lost Road and Other Writings
1988
The Return of the Shadow
1989
The Treason of Isengard
1990
The War of the Ring
1992
Sauron Defeated
1993
Morgoth's Ring
1994
The War of the Jewels
1996
The Peoples of Middle-Earth
2018
The Fall of Gondolin
 
 
#16
Non-Fiction Book
1982
Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode
 
 
#17
Children's Picture Book
1982
Mr. Bliss
 
 
#18
Essay Collection
1983
The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays
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3 Comments
+2
Level 94
Dec 5, 2017
Can't say I did very well, but I must say this is a smashing quiz!
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Level 66
Dec 5, 2017
Thanks!
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Level 60
Sep 16, 2022
u should just accept beren and luthien

other than that, great quiz