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davem
04-30-2003, 02:36 AM
Maybe not the right forum.
But, I was wondering if anyone had any 'wish list' for something special for the 50th anniversary of LotR. I know Harper Collins (UK publisher) has stated they have something special planned, relating to the books, as opposed to the films.
My own 'wish' would be for an edition of the last unpublished works - Fall of Arthur, New Volsungasaga, the sequel to Giles that he began, & the essay on Smith that Flieger refers to in Question of Time.
What about anyone else? Maybe a translation of LotR into Sindarin?

Manwe Sulimo
04-30-2003, 04:43 AM
An actual "copy" of the Red Book of Westmarch (meaning The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in one big, red, leatherbound hardcover).

GaladrieloftheOlden
04-30-2003, 09:36 AM
Yes, that would be very fun to won. Wouldn't an authentic letter of the old Professor himself be great?

~Menelien

obloquy
04-30-2003, 09:41 AM
I'd like all the authentic Tolkien pieces that were published in Vinyar Tengwar in one volume. And what would be really great is all of the little scraps that CT left out of HoMe.

The Squatter of Amon Rûdh
04-30-2003, 02:43 PM
I'd like to see a widely available commercial edition of Songs for the Philologists, which has some pieces by E.V. Gordon (with whom Tolkien collaborated on an edition of Gawain and the Green Knight) and others, an early version of The Stone Troll and several poems in Latin and Old English. Better yet, The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien would be a title worth a few bob to me at least. At the moment they're spread out across a bewildering array of dusty periodicals and privately-published volumes.

Sophia the Thunder Mistress
04-30-2003, 02:47 PM
Yes, to whoever said Vinya Tengwar stuff, I'd love to see that in book form available at your neighborhood Barnes.

Also I'd like to see a really nice hardback edition of the Silmarillion. The ones I've seen are fairly ugly, and my paperback copy is just lacking.