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[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Well now, that wasn't totally satire.

Except on me!

 

[Olorgando]

Well now, that wasn't totally satire.

Except on me!

Erm … would it help if you tried to imagine John Cleese in his most deadpan (hardly anyone could / can do deadpan like John Cleese) Monty Python mode reading my "more thought" text?

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Oops -- I err.
Sorry, mein Hair!

 

[Olorgando]

Oops -- I err.
Sorry, mein Hair!
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Very close, Cleese! 😀
But I'm sure he can deaden that pan even more … 🍳 I'm thinking to near-robotic (1950's sci-fi robots at that 👾 )

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

 

[Olorgando]

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Better: smooth forehead, no more visible wrinkles; worse: that insipid smile! Deadpan does not smile (at least the one I' trying to visualize). Something more like an inscrutable butler face, maybe like Jeeves from P.G. Wodehouse's stories ...

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

That was me saying "Nuh-uh!".

 

[Elthir]

Tolkien based.

 

[Elthir]

Nice special edition Hobbit (Harper Collins)

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Not particularly good pics of the American First Editions:

I own a copy of only the first volume. Not, I hasten to add, a first printing, but still I suppose it holds pride of place in my small collection.

Nothing like the stuff wot Elthir got, tho!

 

[Elthir]

Nice S-eS! I'll add that my first edition LOTR (pictured in EA's original post) is also not a first printing.

Cats modeling parachutes only make so many jools

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I know nothing about jools.

 

[Elthir]

I'm sorry, jewels as in money. Or did you mean something else?

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I mean as in the Gaffer.

 

[Elthir]

Oh, I get it now. I need another nap to sharpen my senses.



Also, I've always liked this dragon by JRRT. And it really stands out in this version.

 

[Alice]

Tolkien's dragon looks good there too

 

[Elthir]

Agreed Alice Alice! And since I can't help myself . . . more dragon!

 

[Ithilethiel]

The three volumes were the first ones I owned many years ago, and coincidentally, I now have the 50th Anniversary edition too.

I also have a one-volume edition, with illustrations by Alan Lee, with (if I remember correctly) the front cover showing Gollum, Frodo and Sam at the Black Gate.

I don't know if it's just me, but I always throw away the slip-covers on any hardback books I own.

I don't toss dustcovers but I do always take them off the book while reading it. If you don't the hardcover slips and slides all over the place. I put the dustcover back on after finishing, if I can find it

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Nice S-eS! I'll add that my first edition LOTR (pictured in EA's original post) is also not a first printing.

Cats modeling parachutes only make so many jools

You made me curious, so I looked mine up. Fifteenth printing. Purchased as part of a Second edition boxed set, where it for some reason had replaced the S. E. Fellowship, thus:

Not that I was complaining!


BTW, I think I owe a belated apology; I should have used quotation marks:

"I know nothing about jools".

Now I'd better restore the books to their proper shelf, before MiniSmaug takes a bite.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I've seen some of the fellow's stuff. Yes, he's good. And yes, you lucked out on that one.

Good for you for sticking to your guns. You wouldn't want to end up like this guy.