Commonly used abbreviations
- General:
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- JRRT
- J.R.R. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
- CT, CJRT
- Christopher Tolkien (son; editor of most posthumous works)
- A&U, AU
- George Allen & Unwin (original British publisher)
- UH
- Unwin Hyman (new name for A&U c. 1987(?))
- HC
- HarperCollins (purchased UH c. 1992; current British publisher)
- HM
- Houghton Mifflin (American publisher)
- M-e
- Middle-earth
- SA
- Second Age
- TA
- Third Age
- SR
- Shire Reckoning
- Middle-earth Works:
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- H
- The Hobbit
- LR, LotR
- The Lord of the Rings
- FR, FotR
- The Fellowship of the Ring
- TT, TTT
- The Two Towers
- RK, RotK
- The Return of the King
- TB, ATB
- The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
- RGEO
- The Road Goes Ever On
- Silm
- The Silmarillion
- UT
- Unfinished Tales
- Letters
- The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
- HoMe
- History of Middle-earth
- BLT, BoLT
- Book of Lost Tales
- Lays
- The Lays of Beleriand
- Treason
- The Treason of Isengard
- Guide
- The Guide to the Names in the Lord of the Rings (published in A Tolkien Compass)
- Other Works:
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- FGH
- Farmer Giles of Ham
- TL
- Tree and Leaf
- OFS
- On Fairy-Stories
- LbN
- Leaf by Niggle
- HBBS
- The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son
- SWM
- Smith of Wootton Major
- SGPO
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo
- FCL
- The Father Christmas Letters
- Reference Works:
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- Biography
- J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography; by Humphrey Carpenter (published in the US as Tolkien: A Biography)
- Inklings
- The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles
Williams, and Their Friends; by Humphrey Carpenter
- RtMe
- The Road to Middle-earth; by T.A. Shippey
- Scholar
- J.R.R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller: Essays in
Memoriam; edited by Mary Salu and Robert T. Farrell
- Atlas
- The Atlas of Middle-earth; by Karen Wynn Fonstad
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