Collecting Tolkien Theme - Lego

Lego is not an obvious theme as you would think that it is all about the Lego building sets. I do however have a few other bits and pieces which make it into a small Theme.

I did not originally collect Tolkien Lego as I thought it was too expensive, however there ended up not as many sets as I thought there might have been and I did really like them, particularly The Lord if the a Rings ones (I was not so impressed by the the Hobbit ones), so I started to collect them. I started off by getting a few of the ones I liked, when they were a bit cheaper, at the end of their run. But like all collectors, once I had a few, I just had to have them all. I now have all of the sets.

These are the items I have:

Lego (35)

Lord of the Rings (12 +3 blisters)

9469: Gandalf Arrives
9470: Shelob Attacks
9471: Uruk-Hai Army

9472: Attack On Weathertop
9473: The Mines of Moria

9474: Battle of Helm's Deep

9476: The Orc Forge

10237:Tower of Orthanc

79005: The Wizard Battle

79006: The Council of Elrond
79007: Battle at the Black Gate*
79008: Pirate Ship Ambush

30210: Frodo with cooking corner
30211: Urak-Hai with ballista
5000202: Elrond Figure (free with DS Lord of the Rings computer game)

Hobbit (14 +6 blisters)

79000: Riddles for the Ring

79001: Escape from Mirkwood Spiders
79002: Attack of the Wargs
79003: An Unexpected Gathering*
79004: Barrel Escape

79010: The Goblin King Battle

79011: Dol Guldur Ambush
79012: Middle Earth Army

79013: Lake-town Chase

79014: Dol Guldur Battle
79015: Witch-King Battle
79016: Attack on Lake-town
79017: The Battle of the Five Armies*
79018: The Lonely Mountain

30213: Gandalf at Dol Guldur
30215: Legolas Greenleaf (fee with Two Towers Blu-ray DVD)

30216: Lake-town guard

5002130: Good morning Bilbo (free with Hobbit XBox One game)
Bard and Bain (free with Return of the King Blu-ray DVD)
Mirkwood Elf (Cinema give-away)

* poor boxes

Promotional (2)

Fellowship Shop Display

Hobbit Drawstring Bag

Clothes (1)

Hobbit T-Shirt red

Board Games (2)

The Hobbit

Battle of Helms Deep

Computer Games (5)

Lord Of The Rings (PC, XBox, DS - with Elrond figure)
Hobbit (PC, XBox One - with Bilbo figure)

Other (4)
Bilbo Keyring
Lord of the Rings Magnets (3 pack)
Blocks Magazine (Hobbit cover)

The Middle Earth Lego Minifigure Catalog (Christopher Bartneck)

Fake (13)

I also have the following fake Tolkien Lego items:
Lele Return of the King (8 boxed figures)
Lele Hobpit (1 boxed figure)
Segan Hobbit (4 horse and riders - no boxes)

Collecting Tolkien Theme - Hildebrandt

The following is quite a small Tolkien theme area.

The brothers Hildebrant are artists produced various Tolkien art.

I have the following items:

Calendars

1976 Tolkien calendar.

1978 Tolkien calendar.

1992 Hildebrandt calendar, featuring some Tolkien pictures.

2003 Hildebrandt Tolkien Artwork Postcard Calendar, which include 13 detachable postcards.

Posters

Two limited edition signed Hildebrant Posters (The Fellowship and Return of Gandalf).

Cards

Greg and Tim Hildebrandt Their Tolkien Art Limited Edition 98/1000 signed (x2).

Greg and Tim Hilderbrandt Their Tolkien Art Collectors Preview set limited edition 814/2000 (x6).

Collector Cards (x90).

Books

Hardback - lord of the Rings Pocket Companion.

Paperback - Hildebrant the Tolkien Years, Watson 2001.

Collecting Tolkien Theme - Bakshi Movie

I have gradually built up a reasonable collection of stuff related to the Bakshi Lord of the Rings movie from the 70's. The film itself is not that good and I didn't see the movie when it was released, but it is a part of the Tolkien world and I have managed to obtain quite a bit of stuff.

Total Items: 62 (sets counted as one item)

One of the best Tolkien collectables I have is a hand drawn film still from the movie, it features of Gandalf.

I also have a 2 versions of 35mm cinema trailers of the movie.

And of course I have a few copies of the film itself. A collectors DVD boxed set, a collectors VHS boxed set, 2 VHS versions, a Betamax version, 2 DVD versions.

I have quite a bit of promotional stuff. 2 rare character stand ups (Gandalf and Frodo). A fan club membership pack. Some postcards. Some black and white prints. A large set of colour prints. Some fliers. A couple of promotional posters.

I have a few Bakshi themed books. There is a single volume Lord of the Rings with a film themed cover. There is a hardback book of the movie. There is a paperback book of the movie.

As detailed in my Tolkien Board Games blog entry, I have a few Bakshi related board games. A Bakshi themed version of SPI's War of the Ring (and a Moves magazine featuring the game on the cover), a family game called The Lord of the Rings and a kids Recall game.

Also part of another of my favourite Tolkien areas are 3 LPs from the film, 

a single LP, a double picture disk LP and a promo 12in single disco performance by the Argon Ballroom Orchestra. I don't have the promo only movie theme single.

Of the 11 Royal Doulton figurines, I have 5 (unfortunately none of the rarer ones). I also don't have the rare stand.

I have 5 movie character badges, although I am missing a Gandalf one.

I also have various large Posters of the movie.

I even have a couple of sets of sheet music from the film, one for a jazz band and one for marching band.

I have 2 Bakshi themed calendars, one from 1979 and one from 1980.

My collection also includes various Jigsaw puzzles. There is a set of 5 movie stills boxed puzzles, which are quite rare, a boxed movie poster puzzle and a tray movie still puzzle.

I have 3 boxed sets of Bakshi metal war game figures by Grenadier.

I have various magazines, which feature the Bakshi movie either on the cover and/or contain articles. These include:

- Rolling Stone #283 Jan 1979

- Fantasia #3 Mar/Apr 1988

- The Electric Company Magazine Mar 1979

- Look In #35 25/8/1979

- Fantasy Films Feb 1979

- Starburst #11

- Fantasy Media vol1no2 Jun-Jul 1979

- Warren Presents Lord of the Rings #1 (1979)

and also a figures painting guide