Anyone knows the exact order of J.R.R Tolkien's books, the writer of Lord of the Rings...?

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Anyone knows the exact order of J.R.R Tolkien's books, the writer of Lord of the Rings... I know he has written many books but which are before Part one Lord of the Rings and what are their orders???

Answer 1

Collecting Tolkien Books

This is the section where most people are always looking for around the web: a list of all Tolkien books. I'm very sorry I will have to dissatisfy right away any one who thinks to find a complete list of all Tolkien has ever written. This list is been in progress for many years now, and it still grows every month or so. Especially recent work and seperate letters by Tolkien are not in the list yet. Luckely there are great books like Wayne G. Hammond's 'J.R.R.Tolkien: a Descriptive Bibliography' (which every one thinking serious about collecting of studying Tolkien books should have!) which can help collectors out to know what books are out there. Under here is the list i am using to track Tolkien books. Whenever i have one of these books or magazines in my collection, you can follow the link to get more info about it.

1910. King Edward’s School Chronicle. n.s.25, n°183. Contains ‘Debating Society Report’, pp.67-71.
1910. King Edward’s School Chronicle. n.s.25, n°184. Contains ‘Debating Society Report’, pp.94-95.
1911. King Edward’s School Chronicle. n.s.26, n°185. Contains ‘Debating Society Report’, pp.5-9 .
1911. King Edward’s School Chronicle. n.s.26, n°186. Contains ‘The Battle of the Eastern Field’, pp. 22-26, and ‘Acta Senatus’, pp. 26-27.
1911. King Edward’s School Chronicle. n.s.26, n°187. Contains ‘Editorial’, pp.33-34, and ‘Debating Society Report’, pp.42-45.
1911. King Edward’s School Chronicle. n.s.26, n°188. Contains ‘Editorial’, pp.53-54.
1913. Stapeldon Magazine. Exeter college. Oxford. 4, n°20. Contains ‘From the many-willow’d margin of the immemorial Thames’, p.11 .
1915. Oxford Poetry 1915. Ed. G.D.H.Cole & T.W.Earp. B.H.Blackwell. Contains ‘Goblin Feet’, pp.64-65.
1917. Oxford Poetry 1914-1916. Ed. G.D.H.Cole & W.S.V. B.H.Blackwell. Contains ‘Goblin Feet’, p.120.
1918. A Spring Harvest. Geoffrey Bache Smith. Erskine MacDonald, Ltd. Contains Preface by JRRT.
1920. Stapeldon Magazine. 5, n°26. Contains ‘The Happy Mariners’, pp.69-70.
1921. Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose . Ed. Kenneth Sisam. Oxford University Press. Includes ‘Middle English Vocabulary’.
1922. A Middle English Vocabulary. Oxford at The Clarendon Press.
1922. Gryphon. Leeds University. n.s.4, n°3. Contains ‘The Clerke’s Compleinte’, p.95.
1923. Gryphon. Leeds University. n.s.4, n°4. Contains ‘Iumonna Gold Galdre Bewunden’, p.130.
1923. Microcosm. Leeds, 8, n°1. Ed. Dorothy Una Ratcliffe. Contains ‘The City of the Gods’, p.8.
1923. Times Literary Supplement. London, 26 april 1923. Contains ‘Holy Maidenhood’, p.281.
1923. Bulletin of the Modern Humanities Research Association. Contains obituary ‘Henry Bradley, 3 Dec. 1845-23 May 1923’, pp.4-5.
1923. Yorkshire Poetry. Leeds, 2 n°19. Contains ‘The cat and the fiddle: A nursery-rhyme undone and its scandalous secret unlocked’, p.1-3.
1923. A Northern Venture. Leeds University English School Association. Swan Press.
1924. Leeds University Verse 1914-1924. Leeds University English School Association. Swan Press.
1924. The Year’s Work in English Studies 1923. Ed. Lee & Boas. The English Association. Oxford University Press. Review - Philology
1925. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Oxford University Press
1925. Review of English Studies. London, 1, n°2. Contains ‘Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography’, pp.210-215.
1925. Review of English Studies, 1, n°3. Contains ‘The Devil’s Coach-Horses’, pp.331-336.
1925. Gryphon. n.s.6, n°6. Contains ‘Light as Leaf on Lindentree’, p.217.
1926. The Year’s Work in English Studies 1924. Ed. Boas & Hereford. The English Association. Oxford University Press. Review - Philology.
1927. Realities: An Anthology of Verse. Ed. Gwendoline S.Tancred. Swan Press/Gay & Hancock Ltd. Contains ‘The Nameless Land’.
1927. The Year’s Work in English Studies 1925 . Ed. Boas & Herford. The English Association. Oxford University Press. Review - Philology
1927. Stapeldon Magazine, 7, n°40. Contains ‘Adventures in Unnatural History and Medieval Metres, being the Freaks of Fisiogus’, pp.123-127.
1928. A New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District. Walter E. Haigh. F.R.Hist.S. Oxford University Press. Foreword by JRRT.
1929. Essays and Studies. Ed. H.W.Gerrod. The English Association. Oxford University Press. Contains ‘Ancrene Wisse’.
1930. Oxford Magazine, 48, n°21. Contains ‘The Oxford English School’, pp.778-782.
1931. Oxford Magazine, 50, n°1. Contains ‘Progress in Bimble Town’, p.22.
1932. Report on Excavation of the Prehistoric, Roman and Post Roman Site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire. Wheeler & Wheeler. Oxford University Press. Contains essay, Appendix I: ‘The Name “Nodens”’, pp.132-7.
1932. Medium Aevum. Oxford, 1, n°3. Contains essay on Old English ‘Sigelwara Land (Part 1)’ by JJRT, pp.183-196.
1933. Oxford Magazine. 52, n°5. Contains the poem ‘Errantry’, p.180.
1934. Chronicle, Convent of the Sacred Heart, Roehampton, 4. Contains the poem ‘Firiel’, pp.30-32.
1934. Oxford Magazine. 52, n°9. Contains the poem ‘Looney’, p.340 .
1934. Oxford Magazine. 52, n°13. Contains the poem ‘The Adventures of Tom Bombadil’, pp.464-465.
1934. Medium Aevum. 3, n°2. Contains the poem ‘Sigelwara Land (Part 2)’, pp.95-111.
1934. Transactions of the Philological Society. David Nutt. Stephen Austin and Sons. Contains ‘Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve’s Tale’, pp.70.
1936. Liflade ant te Passiun of Seinte Iuliene. S.R.T.O. d’Ardenne. University of Liege.
1936. Songs for the Philologists. Department of English at University College. J.R.R.Tolkien, E.V.Gordon & others. Contains 13 poems by JRRT.
1937. Oxford Magazine. 55, n°11. Contains the poem ‘The Dragon’s Visit’, p.342.
1937. Oxford Magazine. 55, n°13. Contains the poem ‘Knocking at the Door: Lines induced by sensations when waiting for an answer at the Door of an Exalted Academic Person’, p.403.
1937. Oxford Magazine. 55 n°15. Contains the poem ‘Iumonna Gold Galdre Bewunden’, p.473.
1937. Beowulf: The Monsters and The Critics. Oxford University Press.
1937. The Hobbit. George Allen & Unwin.
1938. The Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation. Ed. T.F. Higham & C.M. Bowra. Oxford University Press.
1939. The Reeve’s Tale - Version Prepared for Summer Diversions, Oxford.
1940. Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment. John R. Clark Hall & C.L.Wrenn. George Allen & Unwin. Prefatory Remarks on Prose Translation of 'beowulf' by JRRT, pp.viii-xli.
1940. Viga-Glums Saga. Ed. G. Turville-Petre. Oxford University Press / Oxford English Monographs.
1944. Sir Orfeo. The Academic Copying Office.
1945. Catholic Herald. Contains ‘The Name Coventry’ - Letter to the editor.
1945. Dublin Review. London, January 1945. Contains the story ‘Leaf by Niggle’, pp.46-61.
1945. Welsh Review. Cardiff, 4, n°4. Contains ‘The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun’, pp.254-266.
1947. English Studies. Amsterdam, 28, n°6. In collaboration with S.R.T.O. d’Ardenne. Contains ‘“ipplen” in Sawles Warde’, pp. 168-170.
1947. Essays Presented to Charles Williams. Oxford University Press. Contains ‘On Fairy Stories’, pp.38-39 .
1947-1948. Studia Neophilologica. Uppsala, 20, n°s 1-2. In collaboration with S.R.T.O. d’Ardenne. Contains ‘MS. Bodley 34: A Re-Collation of a Collation’, pp.65-72 .
1949. Farmer Giles of Ham. George Allen & Unwin.
1951. Elizabethan Acting. Ed. B.L.Joseph. Oxford University Press / Oxford English Monographs.
1952. torgils Saga ok Hafli ta. Ed. Ursula Brown. Oxford University Press / Oxford English Monographs.
1953. Essais de Philologie Moderne. University Of Liege. Contains ‘Middle English “Losenger”’.
1953. Essays and Studies. Ed. Geoffrey Bullough. The English Association. John Murray. Contains ‘The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son’, pp.1-18.
1953. Radio Times. London, 4 December 1953. Contains ‘A Fourteenth-Century Romance’, p.9.
1953. Pearl. Ed. E.V.Gordon. Oxford University Press.
1954. Sir Orfeo. Ed. A.J. Bliss. Oxford University Press / Oxford English Monographs.
1954-1955. The Lord of the Rings. George Allen & Unwin.
1955. The Ancrene Riwle. M.B.Salu. Burns & Oates. Contains Preface by JRRT.
1955. Time and Tide. London, 3 December 1955. Contains the poem ‘Imram’, p.1561.
1958. The Old English Apollonius of Tyre. Ed. Peter Goolden. Oxford University Press / Oxford English Monographs. Contains Prefatory Note by JRRT, p. iii.
1958. The Peterborough Chronicle 1070-1154. Ed. Cecily Clark. Oxford University Press / Oxford English Monographs.
1960. The Seafarer. London. Ed. Gordon. Methuen.
1960. Triode. Contains a letter to the editor - Comments to Arthur R. Weir, “No Monroe in Lothlorien!”
1962. Ancrene Wisse. The Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press.
1962. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. George Allen & Unwin.
1963. Angles and Britons. University of Wales Press. Contains ‘English and Welsh’, pp. 1-41.
1964. Tree and Leaf. George Allen & Unwin.
1965. Winter’s Tales for Children 1 . Ed. Caroline Hillier. MacMillan. Contains ‘Once Upon a Time’, pp.44-45 and ‘The Dragon’s Visit’, pp.84-87 .
1966. The Tolkien Reader. Ballantine Books.Contains ‘The homecoming of Beortnoth Beorthelm's Son’, ‘Tree and Leaf’, ‘Farmer Giles of Ham’ and ‘The Adventures of Tombombadil’.
1966. The Jerusalem Bible. Darton, Longman & Todd.
1966. Diplomat. New York, October 1966. Contains the article ‘Tolkien on Tolkien’ by JRRT, p.39.
1967. The Road Goes Ever On, a Song Cycle. Houghton Mifflin Company
1967. Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review. Lexington, Va., 18, n°2. Contains the poem ‘For W.H.A.’, pp.96-97.
1967. Smith of Wootton Major. George Allen & Unwin.
1968. The Road Goes Ever On. George Allen & Unwin.
1969. Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham. Ballentine Books.
1971. Attacks of Taste. Eds. Byrne & Penzler. Gotham Book Mart. Includes one-paragraph statement by JRRT, p.43.
1972. Daily Telegraph. Contains ‘Beautiful Place because Trees are Loved’ - Letter to the editor in response to an editorial.
1974. Bilbo’s Last Song. George Allen & Unwin.
1975. Farmer Giles of Ham and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. Unwin Books.
1975. Tree and Leaf, Smith of Wootton Major and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorthhelm's Son. Unwin Books.
1975. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo. George Allen & Unwin.
1975. A Tolkien Compass. Ed. Jared Lobdell. Open Court. Contains ‘Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings’, pp. 153-201.
1976. The Father Christmas Letters . George Allen & Unwin.
1976. Drawings by Tolkien . Exhibition catalogue. Ashmolean Museum.
1977. The Silmarillion. George Allen & Unwin.
1977. J.R.R. Tolkien: a Biography. Ed. Humphrey Carpenter. Allen & Unwin Ltd. Includes excerpts of letters, poetry and prose by JRRT.
1978. The Inklings. Ed. Humphrey Carpenter. George Allen & Unwin. Includes excerpts from letters, diaries and manuscripts by JRRT.
1979. Pictures by J.R.R.Tolkien . George Allen & Unwin.
1979. J.R.R.Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller . Eds. Salu & Farrell. Cornell University Press. Contains ‘Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford, 5 june 1959’ by JRRT, pp.16-32.
1980. Poems and Stories. George Allen & Unwin.
1980. Unfinished Tales. George Allen & Unwin.
1981. Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. Ed. Humphry Carpenter. George Allen & Unwin. Includes 354 letters, excerpts from letters and drafts, with endnotes.
1982. The Old English Exodus. Ed. Joan Turville-Petre. Oxford University Press. Test, translation and commentary by JRRT.
1982. Finn and Hengest . Ed. Alan Bliss. George Allen & Unwin.
1982. Mr. Bliss. George Allen & Unwin.
1983. The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays. George Allen & Unwin.
1983. Smith of Wootton Major and Leaf by Niggle. Unwin Paperbacks.
1983-1996. The History of Middle-Earth. George Allen & Unwin/Unwin Hyman/ Harper Collins.
1984. Catalogue of the Manuscripts of JRRT. Exhibition catalogue. Marquette University.
1985. J.R.R. Tolkien's Letters to Rhona Beare. The New England Tolkien Society.
1987. J.R.R.Tolkien: The Hobbit Drawings, Watercolors, and Manuscripts. Marquette University.
1987. Drawings for ‘ The Hobbit ’ by J.R.R.Tolkien. Exhibition catalogue. Bodleian Library.
1987. Tolkien and the Spirit of the Age: Papers as Presented at the First Lustrum Celebration of the Dutch Tolkien Society Unquendor. Contains 'progress in Bimble Town' by JRRT, p22.
1988. Arda 1984. Ed. Anders Stenström. Arda-sällskapet, Uppsala . Contains 'The Clerke's Compleinte' by JRRT.
1989. Oliphaunt. Contemporary Books/Calico.
1992. Tolkien: Life and Legend. Exhibition catalogue. Bodleian Library.
1997. Tales from the Perilous Realm . Harper Collins.
1998. Roverandom. Harper Collins.

Answer 2

Just to clear things up: as far as the stories of Middle Earth are concerned, the chronological order is:

The Silmarillion
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King

Tolkien wrote much of the Silmarillion over a long period of time, while he was developing the languages and mythology of Middle Earth. It was published as a book after the others.

All the various books that have been published since, "Books of Lost Tales" etc. don't really count because they are assortments of fragments and unpublished work to do with the development of the stories and the mythology.

Answer 3

Tolkien told Lewis that his stories needed more detail. I always liked Tolkien better. His stories had a more universal appeal to the blatantly Christian parallels of Lewis' work. Probably thanks to the effort Tolkeins put into creating extensive and diverse cultural background in his stories. The guy who created half a dozen languages and an in depth history for his novels.

Answer 4

The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King

Answer 5

The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King

Answer 6

if you are talking about chronological order that the various tales are supposed to have happened in, then the order is:

silmarillion [:the ancient history of middle earth]
unfinished tales [ancient history of middle earth]
the hobbit [:the recent past/written intended for the young of mind]
adventures of tom bombadil [recent past;now turning into folk-tales for children]
lord of the rings [the present time for frodo&gollum:

Answer 7

Douglas is correct, then Tolkien wrote "The Silmarillion"

Answer 8

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit"

It's his very first writing work. One day while marking essay papers he found himself writing 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit' - and worldwide renown awaited him.

Answer 9

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