Μυθοπλασία και Ποίηση
- 1936 Songs for the Philologists
- 1937 The Hobbit (Χόμπιτ)
- 1945 Leaf by Niggle
- 1945 The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun
- 1949 Farmer Giles of Ham
- 1953 The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son published with the essay Ofermod
- The Lord of the Rings (Ο Άρχοντας των Δακτυλιδιών)
- 1954 The Fellowship of the Ring
- 1954 The Two Towers
- 1955 The Return of the King
- 1962 The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book
- 1967 The Road Goes Ever On, with Donald Swann
- 1964 Tree and Leaf (On Fairy-Stories and Leaf by Niggle in book form)
- 1966 The Tolkien Reader (The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorthelm's Son, On Fairy-Stories, Leaf by Niggle, Farmer Giles of Ham' and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil)
- 1967 Smith of Wootton Major
Ακαδημαικές Εργασίες
- 1922 A Middle English Vocabulary
- 1924 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- 1925 Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography
- 1925 The Devil's Coach-Horses
- 1929 Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad
- 1932 The Name 'Nodens' (in: Report on the Excavation of the Prehistoric, Roman, and Post-Roman Site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire.)
- 1932/1935 Sigelwara Land parts I and II
- 1934 The Reeve's Tale (rediscovery of dialect humour, introducing the Hengwrt manuscript into textual criticism of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales)
- 1936 Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics (lecture on Beowulf criticism)
- 1939 On Fairy-Stories (Tolkien's philosophy on fantasy, given as the 1939 Andrew Lang lecture)
- 1944 Sir Orfeo (an edition of the medieval poem)
- 1947 On Fairy-Stories (essay, very central for understanding Tolkien's views on fastasy)
- 1953 Ofermod, published with the poem The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son
- 1953 Middle English "Losenger"
- 1962 Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle
- 1963 English and Welsh
- 1966 The Jerusalem Bible (contributing translator and lexicographer)
Έργα του μετά θάνατον
- 1975 Translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo
- 1976 The Father Christmas Letters
- 1977 The Silmarillion (Το Σιλμαρίλλιον)
- 1979 Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien
- 1980 Unfinished Tales (Ατέλειωτες Ιστορίες)
- 1980 Poems and Stories (a compilation of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, On Fairy-Stories, Leaf by Niggle, Farmer Giles of Ham and Smith of Wootton Major)
- 1981 The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (Οι Επιστολές του Τ.Ρ.Ρ. Τόλκιν) - Christopher Tolkien and Humphrey Carpenter
- 1981 (1982) The Old English Exodus Text
- 1982 Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode
- 1982 Mr. Bliss
- 1983 The Monsters and the Critics (an essay collection)
- Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics (1936)
- On Translating Beowulf (1940)
- On Fairy-Stories (1947)
- A Secret Vice (1930)
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- English and Welsh (1955)
- 1983–1996 The History of Middle-earth (Ιστορίες της Μέσης-Γης):
- The Book of Lost Tales Part 1 (1983)
- The Book of Lost Tales Part 2 (1984)
- The Lays of Beleriand (1985)
- The Shaping of Middle-earth (1986)
- The Lost Road and Other Writings (1987)
- The Return of the Shadow (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 1) (1988)
- The Treason of Isengard (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 2) (1989)
- The War of the Ring (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 3) (1990)
- Sauron Defeated (The History of The Lord of the Rings vol. 4, including The Notion Club Papers) (1992)
- Morgoth's Ring (The Later Silmarillion vol. 1) (1993)
- The War of the Jewels (The Later Silmarillion vol. 2) (1994)
- The Peoples of Middle-earth (1996)
- 1995 J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator (a compilation of Tolkien's art)
- 1998 Roverandom
- 2002 Beowulf and the Critics ed. Michael D.C. Drout ("Beowulf: the monsters and the critics" together with editions of two drafts of the longer essay from which it was condensed.
- 2007 The Children of Húrin (Τα Παιδιά του Χούριν) - Christopher Tolkien
- 2009 The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún - Christopher Tolkien
Έργα του μεταφρασμένα στην Ελληνική γλώσσα
- 2000: Ροβεράντομ
- 2000: Το φύλλο και το δέντρο - Ιστορίες για νεράιδες... και άλλα
- 2000: Γράμματα από τον Αι-Βασίλη
- 2001: Χόμπιτ
- 2002: Ο σιδεράς του Μεγάλου Δασοχωρίου
- 2002: Ποιήματα του Τζ. Ρ. Ρ. Τόλκιν
- 2002: Ο Γεωργός ο Γίλης απ' το Χαμ
- 2002: Ο άρχοντας των δακτυλιδιών - Η συντροφιά του δαχτυλιδιού
- 2002: Ο άρχοντας των δακτυλιδιών - Οι δύο πύργοι
- 2002: Ο άρχοντας των δακτυλιδιών - Η επιστροφή του βασιλιά
- 2002: Ο αγρότης ο Τζάιλς απ' το χωριό
- 2002: Ο Χόμπιτ - Ή μέχρι εκεί και πάλι πίσω
- 2006: Οι επιστολές του Τζ. Ρ. Ρ. Τόλκιν
- 2007: Τα παιδιά του Χούριν
- 2007: Ατέλειωτες ιστορίες
- 2007: Το Σιλμαρίλλιον
- 2010: Ο θρύλος του Ζίγκουρντ και της Γκούντρουν