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I have:
The beautiful red expenive collector's one-volume LotR The cheap, movie-cover one-volume LotR Basic three-volume LotR My mom's ancient three-volume LotR Big orange The Hobbit Beautiful green expensive collector's The Hobbit My mom's first edition paperback Sil The Letters of JRR Tolkien Some biography of JRR Tolkien The Road Goes Ever On So 14. I'm obsessed! Yay! Linaewen: *sigh* Some people simply will not see the light. Fortunatly for me, my mom was an avid fanatic in her day.
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04-04-2003, 08:41 AM
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Also, about that cheap Movie LotR. I hate them for some reason. I think they are ugly. I bought the ones that have John Howe's illustrations on the cover, and they were also much cheaper. I don't see the point of me buying any really expensive LotR books, as I will be too paranoid to take them off the shelf anyhoo. (Just in case a bit of dust sticks to a page) |
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04-04-2003, 09:57 AM
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I own so many I don't even know how many!
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04-04-2003, 03:35 PM
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Well, in my pre-Entmoot days, I only owned 3 Tolkien books (two versions of The Hobbit -- one a paperback I got around 1983) and a big hardcover w/ illustrations from the animated movie [but it is the original text, not the movie text], and the copy of Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien), but I also had a 1977 Hildebrandt Bros. Tolkien calendar (which I still have) and a John Howe poster I got in 1992 (which is now in a cheap frame hanging in my bedroom) -- does that count? (Plus the R-B animated videos of both The Hobbit and TLotR, and the 45 of the R-B version of The Hobbit, well, okay that's from when I was a kid. Plus when I was a kid we had the four LP set of that movie [my bro has that now], and the book on tape of The Hobbit [not the animated movie, the real book read aloud, which my dad illegally taped from a record we checked out at the library], which my parents still have).
If I wanted to read LotR or The Silmarillion, I'd just borrow my dad's copies (an original hardcover 1977 Silm, which was the one I tried to read on my first attempt and couldn't get past the Akallabeth; and a three-book late 1960s Ballantine paperback edition of LotR, which has illustrations by Tolkien on the covers, one of which is actually supposed to illustrate a scene from The Silm, but they put it on the cover of TTT). However, when I became a 'mooter, I found it necessary to have the books... let's just say on hand at all times! So my brother bought me the cheapest version of LotR he could find at the store where he worked, which is a one book movie-cover edition (I had to pay him back. I am poor, so I have to go w/ the cheap stuff ) and then bought myself a paperback copy of The Silm. I have them all right here next to the computer, so I can cheat at the trivia games !Thus concludes "The things no one wanted to know about Azalea's collection of Tolkien-related stuff. But it shows my level of obsession, I guess. I wonder how many books other people had before the movies. If someone had the three main works, PLUS all the "other" stuff, including ALL the HoME BEFORE the movies, then I'd say they were probably pretty obsessed! (I just had deja vu.) edit: Oh, and I have a David Day book that someone gave me. |
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04-04-2003, 05:32 PM
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04-04-2003, 05:49 PM
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The Evil One
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ok, i guess i'm not as LOTR crazy as you guys. (Probably cause I haven't read the entire sieres yet.) I'm not at all afraid of black horses.
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04-04-2003, 11:30 PM
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Grr, I have the movie cover LOTR, but my excuse is my sister bought it. I have nice covers of the Sil and the Hobbit: all black with a small picture on the front. I even put contact on the books so they don't get wrecked 'cause I thumb through them all the time.
Another obsession: I am seriously considering getting a LOTR tattoo. I haven't decided what yet.
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04-04-2003, 11:56 PM
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3 LotR
My mum's old expensive purty hard-cover LotR (3 volumes) 2 Silmarillion 3 Hobbit 1 Lost Tales 1 HoME 1 Ruth S. Noel Guidebook for the Tolkien-Obsessed (I think GW knows what I mean... )1 Tolkien Reader So let's see...that's 15! Wow...Okay, so one copy of the Silmarillion was to replace my brother's copy because it spent a month in my backpack, and is now held together by one heck of a lot of duct tape (it's like the Force: it has a Dark Side, a light side, and it holds the Universe together! ). One copy of the Hobbit is the big hardcover one with pictures from the animated version which I think is the same one as azalea has; and the aptly-named (by GW) Ruth Noel Little Red Book of Horrors, which is most well-thumbed. Whee....I'm addicted....let's have a party!
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04-05-2003, 12:14 AM
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the Shrike
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3 Copies of LOTR (One of which is a pretty rare Folio edition)
2 Copies of the Hobbit (One is Folio) 1 Silmarillion (First Edition) 1 Unfinished Tales 1 Tolkien's Letters All of HoME, bar PoME An Atlas of Middle Earth A book on Tolkien's Artwork: Artist and Illustrator Roverandom Farmer Giles of Ham I know I've forgotten something... have to update it when I get home.
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04-05-2003, 12:38 AM
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-is overcome by a sudden urge to bop Beardie over the head and take her books-
Or barring that: Wanna trade?
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04-05-2003, 12:40 AM
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Oh, I am sooo jealous of everyone. I have one copy each of the Hobbit, The Sil and LOTR. Thank goodness for libraries...
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04-05-2003, 12:47 AM
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And my dignified response to that would be....
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04-05-2003, 12:53 AM
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Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster
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Aw, come on! Don't you want Noel's language book?
Um...but I'm keeping the Corebook. You can pick one book to keep, too.
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04-05-2003, 08:13 AM
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Oh, I forgot:
1 Unfinishid Tales That's 15!
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04-05-2003, 08:28 AM
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04-05-2003, 07:46 PM
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Elven Warrior
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Here's one way to tell if you're obsessed with LoTR.
The first thing you've baked is Lembas.
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04-05-2003, 09:08 PM
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Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster
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04-06-2003, 12:21 AM
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hehe, i have one: you had a party celebrating the destruction of the ring (sadly not on the exact date, which was March 25...oh well, that friday was good enough) hehe, in the party, my dad put a fire in the fireplace and we threw a ring my friend made (out of gold wire) in...we destryoed it!!! (actually, my dad found it the next day ..but thats not the point)
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04-06-2003, 03:22 AM
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Fair Dinkum
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More ways to tell you're obsessed with LotR-
-You spend half of your time standing in your backyard, arms outstretched (no, not Lalia the fat style) in an effort to see why your friends there want to be tree-ish. You think they'd be much better off as Ents, but they haven't replied to you yet. -Your bathroom is being renovated, and as such, you have a trailer full of bathroom bits (tiles, shower screens etc) in your front yard. Your parents will not allow you near this, because you have already told them that you wish to flood it because it reminds you so much of the Fall of Isengard (and the majority of the work Treebeard has done for you) - No-one will talk to you because they know that it will take you ages to get to the point, and what you're saying is continually punctuated with 'Hroooom' and 'Don't be hasty' - You will not use a telephone because they are cheap imitations of the Palantir. (The computer is different- that is the only way you may get to Entmoot - You've collected as many clothes as possible for camp that will make you look like Faramir when you are forced to hike for hours there. (And when the enemy walks by, you will ambush them with bows and arrows) - You shudder every time you think of the word 'Argon' because your friend used in place of 'Aragorn' -You constantly get Tolkien-related words stuck in your head (Gothmog, Idril Celebrindal, Smeagol) |
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