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Sunday, 28 June 2020

Tolkien on the Internet



Collections


Blogs/Articles


Actors Public Appearances


BBC Dramatisation


Fan Dramatisations


Hobbit Movie Fan Edits
Keep on Tolkien:

Prancing Pony:

Talking Tolkien:

Signum:

Tolkien Road:


Articles


Tolkien Professor Lectures


Reddit


Facebook
Tolkien Collecting
Action Figures


YouTube

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Wednesday, 29 April 2020

Tolkien Best Purchases

I’ve been collecting for a long time are have had many a bargain, particularly in the past from car boot sales and the early days of the Internet. There are not so many bargains to be had these days, what with more collectors and more dealers, however bargains can still occasionally be found. These are a few of my more recent ones.

1st Edition Boxed Set
2010
Impressions 10/7/6
Good Condition
£30


Fellowship & Return King 1st Editions
2015
Impressions 5/2
With maps, but no dust jackets
Good condition
£5


Figure Bundle
2018
This was a large bundle of 53 Toybiz and AOME figures and sets.

It cost £500

It includes a lot of exclusive Toybiz sets, individually quite expensive, but specifically the Arwen and Horse Red Box Horse and Rider Set which is the rarest figure of them all and worth over £1200 on its own.



    

    




Book Bundle
2019
This was a small bundle of books.

It cost £26

All books are in very good condition.

The highlights are:
A 2nd Edition 1st Impression Lord of the Rings set
A 1970 5th Impression Hobbit
A 1st Edition Silmarillion (not specifically rare though)





Posters
2023
2 Posters
£25 offer


Card Bundle
2020
This was an eclectic bundle of film merchandise.

It cost £16

The highlight of this are 2 very rare Flying Nazgul Super Top Trumps worth £25 each and 2 rare Shelob Super Top Trumps.





Card Bundle
2022
£1.20 plus postage

4 Topps clothes cards, 1 Topps artist card and 4 common Decipher sets


Book Bundle
2024
The unfinished tales book is worth £150 plus


Calendars
2024
The Jeff Murray 2012 Calendar is rare




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Sunday, 15 July 2018

Tolkien Exhibition and Oxford Tour

The plan was to a; see the Bodleian Maker of Middle Earth exhibition then b; see some of the ‘Tolkien’ sites of Oxford, c; experience Oxford.

I did quite a bit of planning, particularly for the Tolkien sites, and had a fairly detailed itinerary:


Parking is not good in Oxford, went for OXPENS which left a bit of a walk (20min) to the City Centre. It was a very beautiful summers day, however following a long delay on the drive up, required a brisk walk to hit out exhibition time, which made us very hot. It would defiantly be worth considering the park and ride (although this would have impacted on travelling to some locations later in the day). Also, the parking was a bit expensive.
The Tolkien exhibition was very good, a lot of original Tolkien documents and particularly his art. It was amazing to see the originals of a some very famous pictures. I particularly liked the fan letter from Terry Pratchett. There was an interesting mix of items from various aspects of his life and the different books he wrote. The 3D map is also very good. The exhibition is not huge, just one room, and it can get a bit crowded (although when we were there on a weekday, morning it was ok). The staff were friendly and efficient.



There was a lot of nice stuff to buy in the Museum Shop, I couldn’t afford a lot of it, but brought some mugs, postcards and a tea-towel. The carrier bags where also very nice and also very cheap, a great souvenir on their own.



Blackwells bookshop next door to the Library is also a must do, they have a small display of rare Tolkien books.
After that we then started our walking exploration of Oxford (to include some specific Tolkien locations).
You can book more official tours of some of the sites (we didn’t have time for that).
Our first stop was Exeter College, which is also close to the Bodleian, just around the corner. There is a bust of Tolkien in the Chapel.
Our next stop was the Radcliffe Camera, which is also close to the Bodleian. Not a Tolkien related site but a wonderful building.
It was then a slightly longer walk to the Botanical Gardens. This is where Tolkien’s favourite tree was (trees being significant in Tolkien’s books), however it is no longer there, having benn cut down a while ago. We didn’t have much time to spend in the gardens.
Next was Merton College, which is right next door to the gardens. I would have liked to have seen Tolkien’s Stone Table on Dead Man’s Walk, however you need to be in the College grounds to see this and we didn’t have time go into the College. We did walk next to it around Merton’s field.
We then walked passed Christ Church College and Cathedral which is right next to Merton.
From there we went up through the town and saw Ashmolean Museum and continued on to the Eagle and Child pub, where the Inkings regularly met. We had a brief look round the pub, but it was a bit crowded to stop for a drink.

We then crossed over the road and saw the Natural History Museum and then went to the Oxford University Parks, which are next to it.
The park was bigger than expected and Tolkien’s Bench is right on the other side (near the High Bridge). The 2 trees planted in memory of Tolkien are not marked so we didn’t see those however it was lovely on Tolkien’s bench, in the shade by the river.


This concluded our city centre tour, so we made out leisurely way back through the centre to the car park.
We then took the 10-minute drive to Tolkien’s house. This was a little bit obscured by trees and hedges but could see the blue plaque clearly.

We then drove a little bit further out to visit Tolkien’s grave in Wolvercote Cemetery. There are little signed along the side of the paths directing you to the grave. The grave is quite simple in amongst all the others.


The whole trip was a great day out. The exhibition was wonderful. I would like to go back to Oxford to explore some the Tolkien aspects of the various colleges.


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Sunday, 16 October 2016

Collecting Tolkien - Internet Resources

The following are various internet resources useful for Tolkien collecting.

The one problem with the Internet is that great sites can disappear, often quite suddenly, and great information is lost. Also many good sites loose interest and stagnate and become outdated, this happened a lot when the films came along and there was then a huge amount of new stuff which sites couldn't keep up with.

There are probably a lot more, which I have yet to find.

News

Specialist (Summary)

General Sites

Forums

Links

Collections
Major

Individuals

Blogs

Other (articles)

General Tolkien

Bakshi

Board Games

Tolkien Music

Action Figures

War gaming

Trading cards

Books

Roleplaying and Game books

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Sunday, 19 June 2016

Collecting Tolkien - Posters

There are literally thousands of posters relating to Tolkien and it is impossible to come up with any definitive catalogue. I know of no website which tries.

I don't particularly collect posters, but these are the ones I have.

Total Items: 47 (sets counted as one item)

Lord of the Rings Poster Collection portfolio by Alan Lee.

Lord of the Rings Poster Collection 2 portfolio by Alan Lee.

Hobbit Poster Collection portfolio by Alan Lee.

Tolkien Centenary Poster Collection portfolio by Alan Lee.

Silmarillion Poster Collection portfolio by Ted Nasmith.

Three large 1969-1970 Posters (Shadowfax, Bilbo and Gollum) by Instor Marketing Service Ltd, which are quite rare.












The Land of Shadows Portfolio by Frank Cirocco, which is quite rare.

Two large Posters of cards from the Decipher card game, one of the Fellowship set and one of the Two Towers.

A large Two Towers movie map poster.

A variety of eight large posters from the three Lord of the Rings movies, including cinema posters.

A large Middle Earth map poster.

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












Eight promo Posters of the cover and pages from Empire magazines Return of the King issue.

Two different sets of four promo Posters of the covers of The Lord of the Rings strategy games expansions.

A large promo Poster promoting the release of the Hobbit centenary book in 1991.

A large promo Poster promoting the release of The Third Age computer game.

A large Poster of the Children of Turin book.

A poster from a Hobbit theatrical play.

Set of six Lord of the Rings movie posters from the Empire magazine.

Three large Two Towers movie posters from The Sunday Times newspaper.

Three large Return of the King posters from The Sunday Times newspaper.

Return of the King Oscar Poster from The Times newspaper.

A Lord of the Rings movie 2002 calendar poster.

A large Bakshi cinema movie poster.

Two promo poster from the Bakshi movie.

Three large Bakshi movie posters.














Two versions of Studio B Gandalf poster.

Free Return of the King Movie Posters (x3)

Movie Time Two Towers gigantic poster.

Star Time Fellowship gigantic poster.

Star Time Return of the King poster.

The Lord of the Rings Definitive Movie Posters (x40).

The Hobbit movie trilogy Definitive Movie Posters (x40).



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Tuesday, 1 March 2016

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)

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