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works by j.r.r. tolkien
The Hobbit

Leaf by Niggle
On Fairy-Stories
Farmer Giles of Ham
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
The Lord of the Rings
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
The Road Goes Ever On (with Donald Swann)
Smith of Wootton Major

works published posthumously
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo

The Father Christmas Letters
The Silmarillion

Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien
Unfinished Tales

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Finn and Hengest
Mr Bliss

The Monsters and the Critics & Other Essays
Roverandom

The Children of Hu´ rin
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

the history of middle-earth – by christopher tolkien
I The Book of Lost Tales, Part One
II The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two
III The Lays of Beleriand
IV The Shaping of Middle-earth
V The Lost Road and Other Writings
VI The Return of the Shadow
VII The Treason of Isengard
VIII The War of the Ring
IX Sauron Defeated
X Morgoth’s Ring
XI The War of the Jewels
XII The Peoples of Middle-earth

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