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  • The Monsters and the Critics, and Other EssaysThe year 1983 marked the first appearance of The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays. J.R.R. Tolkien had died before this collection saw print.
  • The Lord of the RingsThe Lord of the Rings began with a birthday party. Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit celebrating his eleventy-first year, slips on a magic ring and vanishes from his…
  • The HobbitThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again begins with a sentence Tolkien wrote on a blank exam paper one day in the early 1930s: "In a hole in the ground there…
  • The Adventures of Tom BombadilThe Adventures of Tom Bombadil arrived in 1962 as something unusual in the world of Tolkien publishing: not a novel, not a history of Middle-earth, but a…
  • The SilmarillionThe Silmarillion begins not with a hero or a quest, but with silence, and then a song. Before the world existed, before stars or seas or the first living…
  • The Two TowersThe Two Towers first appeared in print during 1954 as the second volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.
  • The Return of the KingJ. R. R. Tolkien conceived The Lord of the Rings as a single work containing six books plus extensive appendices. In 1953, he proposed specific titles for…
  • The Fellowship of the RingThe Fellowship of the Ring arrived in British bookshops on the 29th of July 1954, the first of three volumes that together would become one of the most…
  • Tree and LeafTree and Leaf is a small anthology by J. R. R. Tolkien published in 1964, and it gathers two pieces that Tolkien had written years before its release.
  • The Road Goes Ever OnThe first edition of The Road Goes Ever On appeared on the 31st of October 1967 in the United States. Donald Swann, an entertainer by trade, composed the…
  • Farmer Giles of HamFarmer Giles of Ham begins not with a hero, but with a fat, red-bearded man named Aegidius Ahenobarbus Julius Agricola de Hammo, who is very much enjoying a…
  • Allen & UnwinSir Stanley Unwin purchased a controlling interest in George Allen & Co. on the 4th of August 1914. This transaction merged two firms into what became known…