MIDDLE-EARTH TIMELINE
Tolkien did not only write about Middle-earth. He was a professor of Old and Middle English at Oxford, he translated medieval poems, and he wrote stories for his children long before The Hobbit. This page lists his other books in order of publication, from his first academic work in 1922 to his collected poems in 2024.
The list follows the Tolkien Society's bibliography of books by Tolkien. His Middle-earth books are on the Tolkien books timeline, and books written about him are on this page.
Yes. Besides The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, he wrote children's stories such as Roverandom and Farmer Giles of Ham, short stories like Leaf by Niggle, long poems on Arthur and Sigurd, and translations of Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
He was a philologist. He taught at Oxford as Professor of Anglo-Saxon from 1925 to 1945, then as Professor of English Language and Literature until 1959.
No. It takes place in the Little Kingdom, an imaginary corner of old Britain, and has no link with Middle-earth.
