 | The Hobbit - illustrated hardback by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £15.50 / Used from: £10.50 Where it all began........In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit
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 | The Lord of the Rings - illustrated hardback by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £40.00 The epic that Tolkien toiled for years to complete
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 | The Silmarillion (Deluxe Hardback) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £150.00 Undoubtedly his best work, he laboured on this on and off from 1914 to his death in 1973. Published after his death by his son.
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 | Unfinished Tales: by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £16.16 / Used from: £8.34 A good insight to characters and stories that LOTR only scratches the surface off. The section on Galadriel and Celeborn and the Istari is particulary illuminating
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 | The Book of Lost Tales 2: Pt. 2: The History of Middle-earth 2 by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.84 This begins the History of Middle Earth. It consists of 12 books + an Index. Great reading for an insight into the painstaking detail that Tolkien made in his writings.
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 | J.R.R.Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
Buy used from: £0.01 The official biography by Humphrey Carpenter. A must read for Tolkien fans.
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 | The Letters of J.R.R.Tolkien by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £7.46 / Used from: £4.38 This book gives us a look at Tolkien the man. Like any man he was susceptible to changes that life throws at anybody. Read some sad, detailed, funny letter that he wrote over his lifetime
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 | J.R.R.Tolkien: Author of the Century by T.A. Shippey
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.47 Tom Shippy is undoubtedly one of the finest commentators on Tolkien. He show us how Tolkien can be timeless and how even complex works like The Silmarillion can be read enjoyably
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 | The Road to Middle-Earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology by T.A. Shippey
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £5.59 Tom Shippey again shows us how Tolkien created the myth and in insight into the sources of his inspiration.
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 | Tolkien: Man and Myth by Joseph Pearce
Buy used from: £0.75 Pearce write a study of the man behind the myth, his relationship with CS Lewis, as well as the culture and background in which Tolkien wrote.
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 | The Complete Tolkien Companion by J E A Tyler
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.18 The Tolkien Companion is an encyclopaedic paperback that provide us with names, places, things etc. Essential for budding Tolkien fans
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 | The Atlas of Tolkien's Middle-earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad
Buy used from: £4.78 Fonstad, a qualified cartographer provides us with maps whose detail is truely astonishing.It provide us with a much needed rendering of what the Earth looked like especially in the 1st and 2nd ages
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 | Tolkien's Ring by David Day
Buy used from: £4.09 Day shows us how LOTR is the result of an ancient story telling tradition that dates back to the dawn of western culture.
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 | An Introduction to Elvish: And to Other Tongues and Proper Names and Writing Systems of the Third Age of the Western Lands of Middle-earth as Set ... of Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Buy new: £9.30 / Used from: £6.25 Intoduction to Elvish. Heavy, heavy read only for linguists.
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 | Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth by Ruth S. Noel
Buy used from: £0.99 Languages of Middle Earth. Conjugation of verbs in Quenya, Sindarin
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