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Actually, his first book, a book of poetry, was published in his early 20s (i.e. 1919), before his conversion. It's called "Spirits in Bondage," and it's more pagan than atheistic.

I'll give a third vote for "Valis." I've been intending to read that for months.

He co-wrote the film adaptation they did of "Beowulf" in the last few years (the one with Angelina Jolie as Grendel's mother).

I've read Tolkien's "Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics" two or three times--it is so well done that it is a joy just to read it out loud. I find myself also returning to C.S. Lewis and G.K Chesterton: great sources of clarity and sanity for such mad and murky times. Shakespeare's words...