The Collection Grows

[wilwarin538]

Well Samwise Ive actually won it at least a dozen times, it quite easy.

[Samwise]

Very cool, Miss Estelyn. Sounds right up your alley, if you follow me.

LOL, wilwarin....easy unless you're video game inept, like me.

[Alatáriël Lossëhelin]

Hey, Stacey, been a while since I posted here, but I've been trying to cut back...although not very successfully. Those expansion packs look great--I don't have any of the Return of the King or the Elves. Maybe I need to scope out ebay for more cards...

The only things new for me are a couple of 3 figure sets in the 3-inch figures:

Fighting Fellowship with Fighting Gimli, Fighting Aragorn & Fighting Legolas

The Capture of Sméagol which has a Gondorian Ranger Bowman (with hood & mask), Faramir (wearing his White Tree leather tunic), and Sméagol/Gollum (crouching & complete with fish)

....easy unless you're video game inept, like me.

I think I have previously mentioned that I have the RotK video game for my pc. I have played the dang thing for hours and hours and hours, and I canNOT get beyond Level I. It's very frustrating! However, my 8 year old grandson, after a mere 45 minutes or so, was into Level III for Aragorn and Level II for Gandalf!! **totally unfair**

There is a little video located in the menu of the game called "Hobbits on Gaming", which interviews Dom, Billy & Elijah on playing video games. Billy made a quote at the very end which I felt was extremely appropriate for me. He said: "I think I have a special gift for gaming. I just haven't opened it up and given it to myself yet."

Stacey, maybe we should just open up that gift and give it to ourselves, too!!

[Samwise]

LOL, maybe we should, Miss Lynn.

Today I recieved the patch I ordered off of ebay. Very unique indeed.

As of today, one of my collectibles is being "changed". I was playing with my dog this morning, wearing my Hobbit shirt, 'cause I so rarely get to wear it. Well, my puppy, being big an' rough as he is, jumped on me, grabbed a hold of the shirt with his teeth, and r-r-r-r-r-rip! My mother said she could cut off and sew the picture part (of our four Hobbits) onto another shirt. That'll be okay, I never really cared for the fact that the shirt was black, anyway...not my color...

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I discovered an interesting LotR collectible item in a little shop in Heidelberg recently - 3-D figures lasered into glass cubes! (The company manufactures lots of other figures, and what I bought was not LotR, but I thought it would be interesting to show to all of you.) Alas, the website pictures can't show the astonishing detail and the wonderful effect of the figures, which consist of thousands of tiny dots and can be viewed from all sides. The ring, floating diagonally in the glass cube, looks particularly spectacular. The site is in German, but you'll see the "Special: Lord of the Rings" link which takes you to that page. Enjoy!

[Samwise]

Those are cool. Of course I would want a Sam with Frodo to go with him, (if I had that kind of dinero at the moment) but Arwen is done just gorgeously, too.

I was bumping around ebay recently looking for something also totally not-LOTR related, and found THIS . It's probably something other folks have seen before, but I never had. Very cool, 'specially with all the Sams.

[Alatáriël Lossëhelin]

I was bumping around ebay recently looking for something also totally not-LOTR related, and found THIS . It's probably something other folks have seen before, but I never had. Very cool, 'specially with all the Sams.

Stacey, that's a great chess set--you'll love it. The board itself is pretty cool. It has a map of Middle-earth with a faint image of the ring as the light squares and the darker squares are a solid blueish color.

And an excellent find just this afternoon:

Legions of the Haradrim -- 3 piece set (3 inch)
Merry in Rohirrim armor on Stybba (3 inch)
Pippin in Gondorian armor in front of Gandalf on galloping Shadowfax (3 inch)


**and I'm still looking for that darn gaming gift to give myself lol**

[davem]

Ok, here goes!

The Hobbit
The Hobbit (Alan Lee illus)
The Annotated Hobbit

LotR (Alan Lee illus)

The Silmarillion (1st ed hb)
The Silmarillion (Ted Naismith illus)

Unfinished Tales (1st ed)

Bilbo’s Last Song (large P/b & small H/b)

History of Middle Earth (p/b’s & index & 3 vol h/b in slip case)

Farmer Giles & Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Tree & Leaf, Smith of Wooton Major & Homecoming of Beortnoth

Sir Gawain, Pearl & Sir Orfeo

The Monsters & the Critics

Roverandom

The Road Goes Ever On

Artist & Illustrator

Vinyar Tengwar 39 (Osanwe Kenta) & 41

Letters

Carpenter Biography

Tolkien & the Great War

Complete Guide to Middle earth (Foster)

Tolkien’s Legendarium

JRR Tolkien & his Literary Resonances

Tolkien Studies (vol 1)

Tolkien the Medievalist

Tolkien & the Invention of Myth

Meditations on Middle earth

Celebrating Middle earth: LotR as a Defense of Western Civilisation

Splintered Light

A Question of Time

An Introduction to Elvish

A Sindarin Lexicon

Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon

People’s Guide to JRR Tolkien

Master of Middle earth

One Ring to Bind them All

Tolkien in the Land of Heroes

The Uncharted Realms of Tolkien

LotR: The Mythology of Power

Tolkien’s Art

The Inklings

Tolkien: Man & Myth

Tolkien; A Celebration

A Closer Look at LotR (also pub as Tolkien’s Ordinary Virtues)

Finding God in LotR

Secret Fire: The Spiritual Vision of JRRT

Of Orc-Rags, Phials & a Far Shore: Visions of Paradise in LotR

JRR Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth

Tolkien in Perspective

Following Gandalf

The Magical World of JRR Tolkien

Frodo’s Quest

TheMaps of Middle earth (boxed set)

Tolkien’s World

Concerning Hobbits & Other Matters

A Tolkien Bestiary

Tolkien: Illustrated Encyclopedia

JRRT: Centenary Conference Collection

A Dictionary of Quenya

Touchstone Magazine Tolkien Special

Silmarillion Audiobook

BBC Hobbit

BBC LotR

BBC Tales from the Perilous Realm (dramatisations)

JRRT: An Audio Portrait

Tolkien: Audio Collection

Fired By the Ring (documentary)

Starlit Jewel

Tolkien Ensemble: An Evening in Rivendell, At Night in Rivendell, At Dawn in Rivendell

JRRT: A Film Portrait of JRR Tolkien

Mallorn 40-42

Amon Hen 173-188

Best of Amon Hen 1&2

Tolkien, A Mythology for England?

The Atlas of Middle Earth

Journey's of Frodo

(on order: new Naismith illus 2nd ed Sillmarillion, & LotR 50th anniversary ed)

(Oh, & various movie stuff)

[Estelyn Telcontar]

My goodness, what an impressive book collection, davem!! Some of those I have recently bought - it would be interesting to hear your opinion on them.

[mark12_30]

...yowza, davem!

[Lalwendë]

davem - that's a superb collection!

JRRT: A Film Portrait of JRR Tolkien

Is this the BBC Omnibus documentary which was broadcast some years ago? This was an excellent documentary. I also have a taped edition of The South Bank Show on Tolkien which was well worth seeing.

Has anyone else got the very peculiar Lord of the Rings tarot cards? I found these in a shop in York a while ago. A few years ago I also found a copy of The Tolkien Family Album in one of those remaindered book shops for £1.99. I was looking at it the other day and was horrified/delighted to discover it is a first edition.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

Well, davem, I cannot beat that. Although I have a moderately small collection of books ect, People seem to see it as large. Mind you, I live in an area where I'm lucky to meet someone who actually knows what a book is!
But here goes;

From right to left on my book case, first level;

Full-unabridged Silmarillion, by Martin shaw (CDsRead)
Lord of the rings films (animated, RotK, tTT, Fellowship followed by Fellowship and tTT extended editions)
Return of the King (Black paper back)
The Two towers (Black paper back)
Fellowship of the Ring (Black paper back)
Lord of the rings trilogy (Blue, modern classics)
The Hobbit (Hard back, cover illustration by Tolkien)
The Hobbit (Black paper pack)
The Hobbit (third edition, Hard back)- [Very proud of, though I NEVER touch it, its SO fragile]
The silmarillion (Battered, black paper back)
Unfinished tales (Black paper back)

Second level;

History of Middle Earth Vol 1 (Paper back)
History of Middle Earth Vol 2 (Paper back)
History of Middle Earth Vol 3 (Paper back)
History of Middle Earth Vol 7 (Paper back)
History of Middle Earth Vol 8 (Paper back)
History of Middle Earth Vol 10 (paper back)
History of Middle Earth Vol 11 (Paper back)
History of Middle Earth Vol 12 (Paper back)
History of Middle Earth Vol 13 index (Paper back)
Finding God in Lord of the rings (Hard back)
Wizards, elves and Hobbits (Hard back)

Third level

Tolkien a Biography, by Humphrey Carpenter (Hard back)
Lord of the rings unabridged read by Rob Ingles (Cassettes)
Tales from the Perilous Realm (Black paper back)
Roverandom (Black paper back)
The Lord of the rings BBC dramatisation
The Hobbit BBC dramatisation
The Complete Tolkien Companion (Hard back)

Forth Level

The Hobbit, GameCube, (Game)
The booklet that came with "The Map of Tolkien's Middle Earth"
The booklet that came with "The Map of Tolkien's Beleriand"
Borad of the Rings (Hard back)
The Soddit (Hard Back)

To be continued...

[davem]

Ok, here g)

Originally Posted by Lalwende

Is this the BBC Omnibus documentary which was broadcast some years ago? This was an excellent documentary. I also have a taped edition of The South Bank Show on Tolkien which was well worth seeing.

No, though I have both those documentaries as well. Its a 110 minute video film, narrated by Judy Dench, including in depth interviews with, among others, Christopher (incredible stuff!!!!), Priscilla & John Tolkien, Tom Shippey, Verlyn Flieger & Rayner Unwin - no longer available as far as I know.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0297196/. Tolkien Society did have some stocks, but I think they're out now.
Esty I do like the Road goes Ever On - not exactly my kind of music, but it has strong associations with Tolkien. I especially like Galadriel's Lament, which Tolkien sings on the Audio collection.

[Samwise]

...yowza, davem!

That would sum up my sentiment, I believe....

[Encaitare]

Wow, davem, I am ever so jealous.

I've got some radio recordings as well; one is on a bunch of CDs and it's actually quite good, except for the fact that they take the "stress is usually on the second to last syllable" rule too much to heart, hence they say "Legolas" and "Denethor." I guess they never made it to Appendix E! The other is on cassette tapes and I have yet to listen to it... I'm hoping it's the BBC one with Ian Holm voicing Frodo.