All the middle earth books you have?

I find BookCrossing really useful. There're many boxes with books in one of the parks in my neighborhood. They are located in different parts of the park, so looking for books can result in a pleasant walk. I also have a single card for almost all libraries in my city. A lot of them have been renovated and involved in cultural events. Books in BookCrossing boxes and in libraries are absolutely free. The difference is that you can own (take or share) books from BookCrossing, while books in libraries are borrowed.

Several of my vintage books, and my 1st edition Silm and UT came from charity shops


Here's the list:
LotR

• 2 x (3 volume) HB vintage editions, 1 (single volume) HB illustrated edition, 1 PB (reading) copy,
• audiobook (unabridged, Rob Inglis), radio play (1981 BBC),
• PJ movies EE, Ralph Bakshi movie,
• Reiner Knizia LotR board game (plus Friends & Foes expansion & Sauron expansion), Two Towers (movie) board game, Trivial Pursuit (movie) board game, LotR (movie) TCG

The Silmarillion

• 2 x HB illustrated copies, 1 UK HB first edition, 1 PB (reading) copy,
• audiobook (Martin Shaw)

The Hobbit

• 1 vintage edition, 1 PB (reading) copy, 1 Swedish language PB
• audiobook (Swedish language)

Unfinished Tales - 1 UK HB first edition, 1 PB (reading) copy
HoME - 12 volumes, HB UK first editions
Beren & Luthien - HB
Chidren of Hurin - HB, audiobook (Christopher Lee)
Fall of Gondolin - HB, audiobook (Timothy West, Samuel West)
Nature of ME - HB
Letters of JRRT - vintage
Tales from the Perilous Realm
Roverandum
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight
LotR Reader's Companion (Hammond/Scull)
Altas of ME (Karen Fonstad)
Encyclopedia of ME (David Day)
Tolkien Quiz Book (Andrew Murray)

Goldilocks Gamgee said:

Looking at y'all's great collections, my own books look so insignificant...

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Keep in mind that I have grandchildren older than you, and my collection has been slowly growing since the 1980s. Be the patient lifelong fan and your collection will catch up with/pass us some day. It’ll be something your own grandchildren can get lost in exploring with you.

i got most my books in 6th grade or so and thus many are mass print which i am only now correcting as for many many years i have only read non-fiction.
(even sadder is some smell like cat pee since when one of my ex's moved out... she took my third bookshelf.. so i put all the mass prints kinda stacked up next to my main bookshelf as i owned a cat named Nova (he showed up on my doorstep at like 2am when it was 10 degrees and snowing out) for a year (a car got him) that i was informed was actually a feral cat and apparently he didn't like mass print books.. which isn't as bad as it sounds other than even if it was -10 outside.. i always had to have a window open or he would basically go insane... but since he could catch a bird in the air... 2x and id open my door to see a squirrel even 1 time a bat (in boulder,co...) at my doorstep means he liked me so he was cool with me.. or something like that

3 copies of LotR
- lotr illustrated 2021 (with that sick red fore-edge.. so cool so cool)
- mass print version of lotr (i read this once.. it is a horrible looking book.. but better than worrying about if im about to snap the spin in 2 like my other books)
- mass print fellowship, two towers (which i read so much the spines are basically ripping and are going to fall apart)
- a "nice" copy of rotk lol

- mass print hobbit (spine is not too bad prob only read it 2x)
- hardcover hobbit (gold 50th anniv)

- hardcover Silmarillion

- mass print shaping of middle earth
- mass print lays of beleriand (seems i never read it.. and this is likely when i got my complete works of Plato and went into non-fiction and never looked back)
- mass print lost tales 1 and 2 (binds are messed up)
- mass the lost road

- unfinished tales of numenor and middle earth (never read.. i assume i got this when i had a girlfriend who loved lotr but (and she moved in with me for a while) i could tell her books were UNREAD... she had more books than me.. but only read the hobbit.. i wonder if she ever actually read the lotr like she said she would (update.. i sent her pics of my new Tolkien books and she has read the books now and added even more to her collection)

- the 2020 HoME boxed set

- atlas of middle earth 1st edition (update)

- tolkien's world from A-Z the complete guide to middle earth (this was the 4th book i got after the hobbit and lotr) and i remember going through it like it was my wikipedia as a kid clicking from interesting thing to interesting thing as when it described something worthy of an entry it would tell u what page to flip to.. and i was flipping around all over the place as i had no idea as a kid that all the cool characters and wow what a cool sword or the lineage charts at the end of the books meant anything really.. to be shook that 4th guy on some lineage chart actually has a history and basically this book informed me that there was an actual history... and this was a real world (as real as an imaginary world can get i suppose) also kinda funny that if i bend the book slightly and let the pages open up to where the bind is most deformed.. it's right on Melkor.. and that sounds about right.. "oh man.. Sauron used to work for an even bigger and badder... bad guy? no way!?!"

books im certain to get
beren and luthien
nature of middle earth

Akallabeth
Beren and luthien.
Children of hurin
The silmerillion
Unfinished tales
Lotr series
The Hobbit
Letters from Tolkien
Middle earth Atlas. Karen Wyn fonstand
Atlas of Tolkien. David day
Middle earth wanderer John how
Beasts of Tolkien David day
Tolkien companion. J.E.A Tyler
Tolkien companion. David day
Lotr movie guide
Lotr puzzles

Hi

I'm new here and was wondering if there is a place where people show off their book collection with pictures and all ? Might be fun to look at peoples collections.

This thread would be fine, although some of us have done that here:

Post in thread 'Tolkien Book Covers' https://thetolkien.forum/threads/tolkien-book-covers.28961/post-533323

And welcome to the forum! 🙂

BTW, if you'd like to introduce yourself "formally", and say something about your particular interests, don't forget our New Members forum:

The Hobbit. 2 editions.
The Lord Of The Rings. 4 editions. 2 of them complete with illustrations and apendix. Pocket book with the 3 books seperate and 1 box set with all seperate.
The Silmarillion. 2 editions.
Uninfinished Tales.
Children Of Hurin.
Beren And Luthien.
The Fall Of Gondolin.

Updated 12/9
My Books By J.R.R. Tolkien and/or Christopher Tolkien

• The Lord of the Rings (50th Anniversary Edition)
• The Hobbit
• The Silmarillion
• The History of Middle-earth volumes 3 and 5-13
• Beren and Luthien
• Children of Hurin
• The Fall of Gondolin
• The Fall of Numenor
• Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth
• The Nature of Middle-earth
• The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien

Not by a Tolkien

• The Lore of Old Elfland by Raedisch
• Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings by Duriez
• The Evolution of Tolkien's Mythology: A Study of the History of Middle-earth by Whittingham
• A Fan's Guide to Neo-Sindarin: A Textbook for the Elvish of Middle-earth by Jallings
• High Towers and Strong Places: A Political History of Middle-earth by Furnish
• J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth by Birzer
• The Real Middle-earth: History of the Dark Ages That Inspired Tolkien by Bates
• The Lore of Old Elfland: Secrets from the Bronze Age to Middle-earth by Linda Raedisch

I have the following:
Children of Hurin*
Beren and Luthien*
The Fall of Gondolin*
The Hobbit (70th anniversary edition)
Fellowship of the Ring (1988 BCA edition)
The Two Towers (1988 BCA edition)
The Return of the King (1988 BCA edition)
Bilbo's Last Song
Tales from the Perilous Realm*
The Silmarillion*
Unfinished Tales*
The Fall of Numenor*
Nature of Middle Earth
Book of Lost Tales 1
Atlas of Middle Earth

On my hit list
History of the Hobbit (new version on order).
LOTR Readers' Guide
Complete Guide to Middle Earth
Letters of Tolkien
Remainder of HOME books - most likely POD.

*are new style illustrated hardbacks. Italics equals wrapped up for Christmas!

Looking forward to what I consider a pretty full collection within a year or so.

Amon Rudh said:

POD.

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What means "POD" ? I'm unfamiliar and have seen it twice.

Ent said:

What means "POD" ? I'm unfamiliar and have seen it twice.

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Print on demand. Very common for out of print pre 20th century books and rpgs. Lulu.com, for example.

Gloranthan said:

Print on demand

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Ah. thank you. Most of mine I have digitally, for quick search in research. Some not available digitally I have paperback.. and of course some hardback (and duplicates.) Here are what I have (minus a couple I haven't entered yet if I can remember which they are.)

Gloranthan said:

Very common for out of print pre 20th century books

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Hum. This has my twigs all aflutter. I'll need to check it out... many thoughts result.

Ent said:

Hum. This has my twigs all aflutter. I'll need to check it out... many thoughts result.

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Anything which had no copyright can be printed at lulu if you have a PDF. Any old Google books scan or whatever, even text files. But since older books don't have good quality pdfs.

I see. Thanks for the information.

You can buy the HOME books from Harper Collins as POD for £40. Apparently the quality is very good. All 2010 editions are POD. E.g. https://harpercollins.co.uk/product...-1-christopher-tolkien?variant=39319741956174

Amon Rudh said:

You can buy the HOME books from Harper Collins as POD for £40. Apparently the quality is very good. All 2010 editions are POD. E.g. https://harpercollins.co.uk/product...-1-christopher-tolkien?variant=39319741956174

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Harper Collins printed most of my Tolkien.

True but only HC POD the HOME books to order 🙂