On this day in UK history - 3rd January

On this day in UK history:

3^rd January 1892 - J. R. R. Tolkien - English Novelist was born. 

He wrote the following:

1936 Songs for the Philologists with E. V. Gordon et al.

1937 The Hobbit or There and Back Again.

1945 Leaf by Niggle (short story)

1945 The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun - published in Welsh Review

1949 Farmer Giles of Ham (medieval fable)

1953 The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (a play written in alliterative verse) - published with the accompanying essays Beorhtnoth's Death and Ofermod in Essays and Studies by members of the English Association volume 6.

The Lord of the Rings

1954 The Fellowship of the Ring: being the first volume of The Lord of the Rings.

1954 The Two Towers: being the second volume of The Lord of the Rings.

1955 The Return of the King: being the third volume of The Lord of the Rings.

1962 The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book

1964 Tree and Leaf (On Fairy-Stories and Leaf by Niggle in book form)

1966 Bilbo's Last Song (poem)

1966 The Tolkien Reader (The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, On Fairy-Stories, leaf by Niggle, Farmer Giles of Ham and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

1967 The Road Goes Ever On - with Donald Swann

1967 Smith of Wootton Major (short story)

He also had poetry and academic works published and there were even posthumous works of his published.