Tolkien 📔Book Covers

[Alice]

LOL And Gandalf apparently escaped from Disney World.

Yes, he is cute there. And Bilbo is like a child

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Very nice!
I'll post a photo of my first LoTR (without me in it of course. Unlike yours, I'd detract from it.

Fully agree. You won't see me on here either. If anyone wonders, check my avatar, and add add ugly factor.

 

[Alice]

Fully agree. You won't see me on here either. If anyone wonders, check my avatar, and add add ugly factor.

It's your right, though I don't believe in your ugliness

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Believe me, you don't wanna know. Ask Barliman.

 

[Elthir]

WOW. Some bookshelf-bending collections here! Awesome.

I don't own a cell phone, so I can't add a snap of my collection, but clearly I need to catch up to some of you folks! I do have a couple of gems that I want to mention however . . . I know, but hey, if I can't mention them here in a Tolkien forum -- I mean, just about everyone else I know can barely stay awake if I dare mention my Tolkien collection.

😴

Okay. I have two books from Tolkien's personal library (many thanks to my Crebain again).
Not Middle-earth related, but . . .

A) One is signed in Tolkien's "calligraphic hand" . . . so I feel I own a bit of JRRT's art!

And it's hidden on my bookshelf better than Luthien in Doriath! Not sure why. Does the average thief steal books written in German -- about the German language? I'm going to say yes, just to make me feel sane.

B) Ormulum: initialed by J.R.R.T. and inscribed to someone. For years I couldn't make out the name of this other person, until Hammond and Scull published their huge, two volume Tolkien guides -- and one single reference to this person was all I needed.

Thanks H&S!

C) The Children of Hurin signed by Christopher Tolkien and Alan Lee. It does not include that awesome Alan Lee illustration of Glaurung outside Nargothrond, however. Why? And why am I whining about what it doesn't have!

D) The Rhinegold And The Valkyrie signed by Arthur Rackham. Hmm. How did that make this list!

Anyway, Feanor teaches me that I shouldn't love too much the work of my hands -- in these cases, not my hands, but . . .

. . . in any case, "too much" is so subjective

 

[Barliman]

Here are 3 no one has posted, though not rare.

The first one I read.

And some book plates I have.

I'll post some more after I clear the shelves in front of them from all the toy Land Rovers so i can get to them.

 

[Alice]

Oh I've got the first one in russian, though my edition is far more shiny

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Hey -- I got me summa dem bookplates!
Wherja get yers?

 

[Barliman]

Well, Squint-Eyed Southerner made me do this. Here is small video with sound, where I show each cover of my first LOTR set (I speak with an accent)

He does that. He made come watch it. LOL
He's a wise owl

Love the book covers! Thanks for showing them.

edited because of Guiness

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I maed you see the maid.

 

[Alice]

He does that. He maed me come watch it. LOL
He's a wise owl

Love the book covers! Thanks for showing them.

Yes, but he is wiser than owl. He is wise like Gandalf

 

[Barliman]

Oh I've got the first one in russian, though my edition is far more shiny

Do you mean the Hobbit? Mine is quite shiny, but didn't come through in the photo.
If you mean the first one I read, yeah, mine has been through many reads and many moves.

 

[Alice]

Do you mean the Hobbit? Mine is quite shiny, but didn't come through in the photo.
If you mean the first one I read, yeah, mine has been through many reads and many moves.

No, I mean my Hobbit edition with same cover, but in Russian

 

[Elthir]

( . . . ) And some book plates I have.

LOL Barliman. I have that Tolkien caricature on a mug in which I keep a pine cone from Tolkien's beloved pine (this tree is sadly gone now).

🐾

 

[Barliman]

LOL Barliman. I have that Tolkien caricature on a mug in which I keep a pine cone from Tolkien's beloved pine (this tree is sadly gone now).

🐾

Nice.
They were keeping the place pretty clean when I was there, no pine cones lying about.
Though customs would have probably seized it when I came home. Actually I may have posted a photo of me under the tree somewhere here.

 

[Elthir]

Fully agree. You won't see me on here either. If anyone wonders, check my avatar . . .

I used to model parachutes.



Granted, no one asked me to.

And I never said this was me.

See my avatar -- add parachute 🐾

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

The Cat in the Sack.

After closer inspection:

The Cat in the Tats.

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

Gave it some more thought.
Now for TH, it's Gandalf's fault entirely. Even harangues those sensible Dwarves to do something they clearly see as daft.

But in LoTR? Not Gandalf's fault alone.

Item: at the Council of Elrond, there are plenty of other people who should be sensible, besides the council chairman, Glorfindel, Aragorn ...
What do they do? Add three more Hobbits to the Fellowship. Though then again, Elrond had doubts about Merry and especially Pippin, so it's mostly Gandalf's fault again. Nine Nazgûl, pitted against them one who can deal with some of them, two doubtfuls in Aragorn and Legolas, one highly unlikely in Gimli - and to fill up to nine, four Hobbits?!?

Item: the eight remaining of the Fellowship show up in Lórien, having just lost their by far most powerful member. So what to Galadriel and Celeborn do? Give them some marginally useful stuff (ok, the margins often just making a difference) … and send them onwards again!

Item: Faramir finds two Hobbits, who want to continue on their quest accompanied by a murderous cannibal degenerate near-wraith of their kind … and he sends them onwards, too.

Plenty of people with some serious optimism overload! 🧐😉

Well, this case has taken quite the turn!

CL

 

[Elthir]

edited because of Guiness

😄

Also, after my theft, my wife and I had several "cone chats" with respect to customs. I argued that the tree "gave" it to me and I couldn't disappoint it. That didn't work. So I hid the precious thing in a bag, within a bag, within a bag, within yet another bag. . .

. . . until "bag end"

And ultimately the customs folk merely nodded at us, checked nothing, and didn't ask us a single question about Tolkien, or anything else.

 

[Olorgando]

Well, this case has taken quite the turn!
CL

So thought S-eS, too; my response:

https://thetolkien.forum/threads/tolkien-book-covers.28961/post-533458

Satire at the keyboard has its drawbacks, as I see over and over again.
May be like reading a movie or whatever script without seeing what, say, Jim Carrey does with his rather expressive face while performing this text, delivering his lines - world of difference. 😶 vs. 🤪