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Items marked OP are out of print. We have no further information about whether out of print books will become available again. It does sometimes happen, but in general, don't expect it. Items that are currently not available but are expected back in stock at some stage are marked RUC (reprint under consideration).

Finding items on this list:

Items are ranged under the following categories more or less in this order:

• The Hobbit
• The Lord of The Rings including movie tie-ins.
• The Silmarillion
• Unfinished Tales
• The History of Middle-earth
• The Shorter Works of JRR Tolkien
• Tolkien Society publications

For ordering and payment please see to How to Order. All prices include postage and packing to the areas described above.

All prices are given in GBP (British pounds sterling), shown by the character £.

The Hobbit

The following are currently out of print: The Annotated Hobbit (Anderson) (UK update due in 2003); The Illustrated Hobbit (Hague); The Hobbit DeLuxe Edition.

The Lord of the Rings 

The De Luxe LotR: is currently in print.

Lord of the Rings Movie Trilogy Guides

Note: these comprise material previously published in separate volumes (below) LOTS OF PICTURES

Fellowship of the Ring Movie Guides

LOTS OF PICTURES

The Two Towers Movie Guides

LOTS OF PICTURES

The Return of the King Movie Guides

Actor and other movie related publications

The Silmarillion 

After J.R.R.Tolkien's death in 1973, his son and literary executor, Christopher Tolkien, followed his father's wishes and gathered up his notes and literary papers of almost 60 years of storytelling to form the history of the First Age of Middle-earth. This became Tolkien's hitherto unfinished The Silmarillion. A series of compact and elegaic episodes tells the story of the creation of Arda, the coming of Elves and Men to Middle-earth, and their war with the Great Enemy to save the early world from destruction. The Silmarillion contains the historic background to the world of The Lord of the Rings, including the tale of Beren and Lúthien, and the history and downfall of Numenor, the original home of the Dunedain.

The Silmarillion J.R.R. Tolkien (edited by Christopher Tolkien) Published by HarperCollins.

Unfinished Tales 

A collection of unfinished episodes and important notes from the history of Arda, including the coming of Tuor (Earendil's father) to Gondolin; the Narn I Hin Húrin (Tolkien's darkest story); Aldarion and Erendis (a tale of Numenor in the Second Age of Middle-earth); the histories of Galadriel and Celeborn; the disaster of the Gladden Fields (a story of Gondor in the Third Age); Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan; the Quest of Erebor and the Hunt for the Ring (events prior to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings); the battles of the Fords of Isen (the fall of Théodred Théoden's son at the time of The Lord of the Rings); and notes on the Druedain (Pukel-men); the Istari (that's the stuff about the other three wizards that everyone is always asking about) and the Palantiri.

Unfinished Tales J.R.R. Tolkien (ed. Christopher Tolkien) published by HarperCollins

The History of Middle-earth  

The twelve volumes of JRR Tolkien's hitherto unpublished notes, drafts and supplementary tales for the Arda cycle. Essential reading for serious Tolkien readers with lots of time and a real love of footnotes.

There is no room to describe the contents in more detail here, but in the fullness of time I hope to prepare a separate page that will list the contents of the Histories in some detail.

The Shorter Works of JRR Tolkien 

Farmer Giles of Ham

Aegidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo, known as Giles, chases a giant out of his village one night and receives a second-hand sword as a reward from the king. Unknown to Giles, the sword Tailbiter has an ancient Name and a score to settle. Written to explain the names of the villages around the town of Thame in Oxfordshire, England, this is a lovely comic tale for children and adults.

Now once again embellished by Pauline Baynes' medieval-style characters, of whom JRR Tolkien wrote: "I am pleased with them beyond even the expectations arounsed by the first examples. They are more than illustrations, they are a collateral theme. I showed them to my friends, whose polite comment was that they reduced by text to a commentary on the drawings."

Smith of Wootton Major

Fortunate is the child who swallows the silver star in the Great Cake at the Feast of Good Children, for he will become acquainted with Faerie. Smith is one of those children, and "he was as safe as a mortal can be in that perilous country". But what happens when it is time for the star to pass on? Written almost as the valediction of J.R.R.Tolkien's life of teaching and writing, his last story is a tale of the nature, and perhaps the ethics, of Faerie and celebratory cake-making. It should be particularly valued by anyone called Smith.

This story is also in the collections Tales from the Perilous Realm (UK) (SEE FURTHER DOWN) or The Tolkien Reader (USA).

Tree and Leaf

Tolkien's gentle allegory of Niggle and Parish reissued in 2000. This volume also contains The Homecoming of Beortnoth and Tolkien's essay on The Battle of Maldon, plus the rarely published poem Mythopoeia.

The Father Christmas Letters

Letters started to arrive from Father Christmas to the Tolkien children in 1920 and continued for over 20 years, telling of his tribulations at his home at the North Pole, his friends the North Polar Bear, the Snow Boys, and his secretary, the efficient elf Ilbereth (a proper working elf, not one of those tall musical types you find in The Lord of the Rings). Each letter was richly illustrated in colour by Tolkien himself.

Mister Bliss by J.R.R. Tolkien

A whimsical children's tale of a little man with a tall hat and a fast car. Written and illustrated by J.R.R.Tolkien, with facsimile pages and typeset text in parallel.

Tales from the Perilous Realm: includes The Adventures of Tom Bombadil/Farmer Giles of Ham/Leaf by Niggle/Smith of Wootton Major.

As well as Farmer Giles of Ham and Smith of Wootton Major (see above), this volume contains Leaf by Niggle, Tolkien's personal parable of how a working man rediscovers the painting of a great tree that he had worked on all his life and not lived to complete; and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, a collection of poems, notably two tales of Tom and Goldberry, and The Sea Bell, the journey to enchanted islands that W.H.Auden called "wonderful".

Note: The USA volume is The Tolkien Reader, which has similar contents.

Roverandom

Written for Tolkien's son Michael, this early tale tells how toy dog Rover became lost and visited the Man in the Moon and the undersea kingdom of the old mer-king. A fully edited edition with the children's tale, introduction and notes. Illustrated in colour and black and white by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Poems

The Road Goes Ever On

Tolkien Society Publications

Peter Roe Memorial Booklets

The First and Second Ages:

Travel and Communications in Tolkien's Worlds:

Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees Volume 1

Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees Volume 2 LAST 9 REMAIN

Tolkien, the Sea and Scandinavia

The Ways of Creative Mythologies (2 volumes)

Tolkien: A Mythology for England? LAST 4 REMAIN

The Best of Amon Hen (Part 1)

Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees Volume 3

A Sindarin Lexicon by Kenneth Chaij ORDERS TAKEN NOW

The Best of Amon Hen (Part 2)

Tolkien: Influenced and Influencing

The Tolkien Society's Guide to Oxford

The Oxonmoot Songbook

Membership Journal Backnumbers

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