The Collection Grows

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Thenamir

Aside from normal stuff (ordinary non-rare books, CD recordings, action figures, etc.) the "jewels" of my collection include the following:

• A TTT Gimli action figure autographed by John Rhys-Davies
• An oversized movie-marquee-quality FOTR poster, autographed by Wood, Monaghan, Boyd, Astin, McKellen, Lee, Blanchett, Tyler, Bean, Bloom, Rhys-Davies, and Mortenson. I hope to get PJ's autograph on it someday.
• A 10'x5' vinyl movie lobby poster from ROTK given to me by the theatre manager as a reward for hosting all 3 line-parties at his theatre and thus bringing in extra crowds
• Several replicas of the movie swords

OK, it's not as cool as davem's books, but I like 'em. And I'm not too old to play with my action figures...

Action figures Rule. I'm not ashamed to say that.

I had a conker off one of Tolkien's favourite trees - it took a lot of effort and near-illegal activity around the back of Merton College to get it, but I put it away 'safely' and it rotted and I had to throw it out. Still, I can always get another one at the next Oxonmoot...There's a story for life in there somewhere...

I do have a pine cone and a shrivelled conker from near Tolkien's grave which both survived intact though.

Does the Pinus Nigra drop cones? That would be a superb souvenir, to get one of these and actually grow a child of his very favourite tree!