A complete reading and viewing order for J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth — Tolkien's five lifetime publications (The Hobbit, the three Lord of the Rings volumes, and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil), the five Christopher Tolkien-edited Great Tales (The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, The Fall of Gondolin), the post-Christopher continuations (The Nature of Middle-earth, The Fall of Númenor), Peter Jackson's six theatrical Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films, Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated theatrical, the Rankin/Bass 1977 Hobbit and 1980 Return of the King TV specials, Kenji Kamiyama's 2024 The War of the Rohirrim, and Amazon's The Rings of Power. Both publication-order and in-universe chronological reading and viewing orders.