Saw this and wished I were rich...... - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Rimbaud · 03-25-2005, 08:42 AM

When surely you really want this .

Kuruharan · 03-25-2005, 10:43 AM

...drool, drool, drool...

Bêthberry · 03-25-2005, 11:57 AM

Bah I say. What's all this hoarding of relics?

Next someone will be auctioning off the cutlery from the Tolkien family table, or perhaps the letter-opening knife which Tolkien used and calling it a relic from some barrow. Or mayhap a brooch of Edith's. Me? I 'm holding out for a bottle of the last waters that flooded over Meneltarma.

ElementFire · 03-26-2005, 09:51 AM

wow *whistles* spiffy

Kitanna · 03-27-2005, 06:50 PM

My dad's copies of LOTR are like that. Though it's not the first edition, it's the revised edition, but it looks the same to me.
But I don't think it's worth it to buy those books. You'd never want to read them. Which kinda defeats the purpose.

ElementFire · 03-29-2005, 11:20 AM

My copy is...torn and ripped, and faded and old, and not very nice to look at, but you can still read it!!!

Mithalwen · 03-30-2005, 09:16 AM

But I would read them - just maybe not in the bath.... and I would put them down carefully not just shove it under the pillow... and as for the money - yes it is a lot but sometimes it depends on your priorities. I mean some people spend a lot of money on cars I mean this is out of my league, if you bought a new beamer it would have lost the price of the first edition as you drove it out of the showroom...... And apparently the average price of a wedding in the UK is now £17K ..... makes a first edition LOTR seem a bargain .... and you know it will last a lifetime.... but if I had £2K+ to spare now I would go back to NZ......

03-25-2005, 08:42 AM	#1
Rimbaud The Perilous Poet Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Heart of the matter Posts: 1,062	Cheap at the price When surely you really want this . __________________ And all the rest is literature

03-25-2005, 10:43 AM	#2
Kuruharan Regal Dwarven Shade Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: A Remote Dwarven Hold Posts: 3,594	Wow! ...drool, drool, drool... __________________ ...finding a path that cannot be found, walking a road that cannot be seen, climbing a ladder that was never placed, or reading a paragraph that has no...

03-25-2005, 11:57 AM	#3
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,003	Bah I say. What's all this hoarding of relics? Next someone will be auctioning off the cutlery from the Tolkien family table, or perhaps the letter-opening knife which Tolkien used and calling it a relic from some barrow. Or mayhap a brooch of Edith's. Me? I 'm holding out for a bottle of the last waters that flooded over Meneltarma. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

03-26-2005, 09:51 AM	#4
ElementFire Animated Skeleton Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: The Gama Quadrant Posts: 33	wow whistles spiffy __________________ He who stands on toilet is high on pot. XP I don't do kung fu, I do kung lamb!!!

03-27-2005, 06:50 PM	#5
Kitanna Child of the West Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Watching President Fillmore ride a unicorn Posts: 2,132	My dad's copies of LOTR are like that. Though it's not the first edition, it's the revised edition, but it looks the same to me. But I don't think it's worth it to buy those books. You'd never want to read them. Which kinda defeats the purpose. __________________ "Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain

03-29-2005, 11:20 AM	#6
ElementFire Animated Skeleton Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: The Gama Quadrant Posts: 33	My copy is...torn and ripped, and faded and old, and not very nice to look at, but you can still read it!!! __________________ He who stands on toilet is high on pot. XP I don't do kung fu, I do kung lamb!!!

03-30-2005, 09:16 AM	#7
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	But I would read them - just maybe not in the bath.... and I would put them down carefully not just shove it under the pillow... and as for the money - yes it is a lot but sometimes it depends on your priorities. I mean some people spend a lot of money on cars I mean this is out of my league, if you bought a new beamer it would have lost the price of the first edition as you drove it out of the showroom...... And apparently the average price of a wedding in the UK is now £17K ..... makes a first edition LOTR seem a bargain .... and you know it will last a lifetime.... but if I had £2K+ to spare now I would go back to NZ...... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace Last edited by Mithalwen; 03-30-2005 at 09:22 AM.

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