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While moving recently, to a fourth-floor apartment with no elevator, I had to carefully evaluate which book — including which Tolkien books — are worth boxing, lifting and moving and keeping, in the face of space restrictions and physical exhaustion.

What's on your Tolkien bookshelf or what's in your Tolkien library? We take a look at the essential books that make up the core, the books that sit just outside the inner circle and then a lot of other books that fill out your shelf space. See the transcript for a full list of what this episode looks at.

These are works by J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien and Tolkien scholars. Not mentioned, and omitted by accident is the essential "Tolkien and the Great War," by John Garth and "The Atlas of Middle-earth" but, the last episode was dedicated to that key work. If other important works were missed send me at not at TheTolkienPodcast@gmail.com

THE LIST OF BOOKS UNDER DISCUSSION

*Tolkien And The Great War
*Atlas of Middle-earth
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
The Silmarillion
Unfinished Tales
The Children of Húrin
Beren and Lúthien
The Fall of Gondolin
The Book of Lost Tales Part 1
The Book of Lost Tales Part 2
The Lays of Beleriand
The Lost Road and Other Writings
Morgoth's Ring and The War of the Jewels
The Shaping of Middle-earth
The Lost Road and Other Writings
The Return of the Shadow (The History of The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 1)
The Treason of Isengard (The History of The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 2)
The War of the Ring (The History of The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 3)
Sauron Defeated (The History of The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 4)
Morgoth's Ring (The Later Silmarillion, Part One) (1993)
The War of the Jewels (The Later Silmarillion, Part Two) (1994)
The Peoples of Middle-earth (1996)The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (poetry)
Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham
Roverandom
The Fall of Arthur
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (edited Carpenter)
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
Letters from Father Christmas 1976
J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator
Tolkien On Fairy-stories (his essay on fantasy literature)
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century 
The Road to Middle-Earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien Created a New MythologySplintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World
Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology
The Art of The Hobbit and The Art of The Lord of the Rings
* These titles were omitted but are essential part of the Tolkien Library.

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