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Finally home from college and that means I get the pleasure if reorganizing my bookshelves. I decided to create an entirely new section for my little Tolkien collection!

I constantly fight off the worm in my ear telling me to buy more books (my collection has exploded as of late, and I am running out of room).

A little over half of my collection has been acquired second-hand, and the rest were gifts!

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just read your new welcome/masterlist

please tell us about the 70 editions of tolkien you have!!!

FUCK YES

I'm gonna use this as a post where I will answer some questions I assume I would get about them, but if you want to see any more volumes or ask a question that isn't here, please do send an ask! I am more than happy to show!

*disclaimer!! i am not a book expert, nor a tolkien expert, so i may not know every tidbit! i do not claim to know about all of these books just because i own them!*

Read below, it's a looooong one!

What does the "Tolkien Shelf" look like?

that is her in all her glory! (as of 07/05/25) i reorganize it so often that the look of it changes a lot, but this is how i've had it for the last few weeks! some duplicates/very boring covers are in behind the ones you can see as well!

2. Where do you get all your copies?

everything you see on the shelf was bought second hand! i've had this collection for just about two years now, and it takes a surprisingly immense amount of effort to source everything. i love collecting used media (books, dvds, records, cds, cassettes, vhs, etc), so of course i had to begin one just for tolkien. majority of books i find are lotr and the hobbit (because his other novels are not easy to find used + affordable), but i do have some in there! i only add to this collection when i find things at thrift stores, used book stores, and the odd time facebook marketplace if there's a good deal! my biggest pet peeve is how hard it is to find all three copies of lotr used!!! so many times i have found 2/3 and then have to aimlessly hope and pray that i find the third one some day!

3. What was your first ever copy?

i found this edition in a used bookshop in edinburgh! before this i had never read lotr, and i definitely didn't plan on collecting the novels, but here we are! this one will always have a special place in my heart and it is always the version of the fellowship that i pick up when i re-read the series. will always be a favourite! i believe it was only £4! sadly still searching for the matching two towers and rotk edition of this print!

4. What is your favourite edition you own?

this 3-in-1 hardcover is so fucking beautiful, i found it at a random small thrift store in a fishing town in the pacific northwest. it is by far the heaviest edition i own but it's so beautiful that (as you probably saw) i always display it outwards!

5. What is your oldest copy?

this version of the hobbit is the oldest tolkien book i own! it is a 1966 edition and it is definitely falling apart at the seams! i love it dearly, there's even a printed tolkien signature inside which is epic!

these are some other super old copies i own, all from the late 60s/70s! (fun fact, that edition of the hobbit was originally priced at $5, but the lady at the thrift store sold it to me for .25₵)

6. What is your most recent edition to your collection?

this one here!!! i literally got it three days ago for $10, it was really cool because as someone who (thought) she had seen every cover of every published tolkien book, i had never come across this one before! it's so fucking hideous but for some reason i love it so much??

7. Favourite box set/full lotr trilogy you own?

it's a toss up between these two, and i love them both for polar opposite reasons!

the first set was the first box-set i ever found, i got it for an incredibly good deal of $10!!! it's the find that made me realize i wanted to start collecting, these copies are also very very old! i have the original box for them also :)

the second set i love because it's just fucking funny to me. i am NOT one for real people/movie posters on book covers, but who can resist a sexy legolas two towers? not me!

8. Most expensive book you own?

i'm answering this based on which book i personally paid the most for, not which copy i own that is worth the most (because i don't fucking know). this baby right here was a whopping $30 from a used book store in the canadian prairies, but worth every penny!!! it is SO hard to find used tolkien books that aren't his fiction novels, so i could never in a million years pass this up. i love this book so very much.

9. What is the best deal you got on a book from your collection?

BOOM. fucking smith of wootton major & farmer giles of ham. like what is this book LMAO. this is the only book by tolkien i own that isn't about middle-earth! best part? it was FREE. yes, free. a lady who had sold me tolkien books a previous time texted me and said she had something for me, and then came and dropped this off! i did nearly cry!

edit i fucking LIED i also own the fall of arthur which does not take place in middle-earth!

10. What is your favourite book from your collection that wasn't written by Tolkien?

i LOVE this complete guide to middle-earth, it is genuinely just a massive dictionary full of names and places and weapons and elvish words from tolkien's legendarium, all alphabetically organized! i go into it all the time ESPECIALLY when doing fic research. the second book is literally just a book full of activities, they have crosswords and word searches and everything! best part? when i found it at the thrift store, no one had written in it! it's completely blank! it's just so silly.

11. Favourite Tolkien item to collect that isn't books?

DVDs!!! so so so hard to find, but i adore finding tolkien-based dvds, these are some that aren't the lotr or hobbit films! i also collect CDs (have all the movie soundtracks and a two towers audiobook), magazines/picture books, and figurines! i also love finding things like clothing and posters!

Welp, what a doozy! If you have any other questions, or if there's a book in my collection i didn't post/you want a closer look at, please feel free to send an ask!!

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I managed to get my hands on a copy of Beren and Luthien and also by a pleasant surprise found a copy of the Tolkien Reader while browsing at a thrift store.

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An Update on my Tolkien Collection

For @oneardentstudybuddy following your recent tags:

Not all of my collection is pictured because I couldn't fit the whole bookcase into the shot, it's also a MESS on the bottom shelves... (The top shelves are bad enough!) There's also books missing because I've lent them out to a friend or I'm reading them. However, I have:

5 editions of Lord of the Rings (3 in separate volumes, 2 in one volume)

6 copies of The Silmarillion (I thought I had more of these... I'm wondering if there's some missing from when I moved all my books?)

7 copies of The Hobbit (hilarious considering I'm not that fond of the Hobbit, I'm also definitely missing books, time for a hunt round the house 😱😭)

2 copies of The Great Tales and the Unfinished Tales (one paperback, one hardback, Beren and Luthien is signed by Alan Lee!)

The Fall of Numenor

The Nature of Middle Earth (on my nightstand as I'm reading it)

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings: a Reader's Companion

The History of Middle Earth volumes 1-4, 7-8, 10 (I don't know why I don't have the other volumes, all in paperback, I'm eyeing up the new hardbacks though to complete my collection)

The Art of J.R.R. Tolkien

The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films

The Making of Middle Earth

Tales from the Perilous Realm

Beowulf

The Fall of Arthur

Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo

The Complete Guide to Middle Earth

The unabridged audiobook of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings read by Rob Inglis

Theatrical cut of the Lord of the Rings films (watched once)

Extended Edition of Lord of the Rings films (watched obsessively)

Theatrical cut of The Hobbit films (watched occasionally)

Extended edition of The Hobbit films (watched once and regret it)

Howard Shores complete recordings for all three films

The standard soundtracks for LotR and The Hobbit films

All of the visual guides and companion books for the films, there's far too many of these to list!

Too many LotR themed candles, Rivendell is my favourite

A Weta print of the Argonath

A concept art print of Rivendell

A print of Alan Lee's illustration of Edoras

And, of course, my hobbit hole travellers notebook covers

This was slightly unhinged, sorry!

I have a lot of ebooks too but we'd be here until next week - Tolkien scholarship is vast 😅 I'll happily do better photos of anything you're particularly interested in! I love sharing Tolkien!

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“The Shire”, original art in graphite, ink and watercolor. Print available on my Etsy : https://www.etsy.com/fr/shop/Paontaure

Tolkien collection coming along nicely. And it'll look even better once I can get the new hardbacks for the History of Middle-earth that are coming out soon (although, I still want to complete my paperback set of them, and rebuy the mismatched copies into ones that match.

I'm also planning on getting the new illustrated by the author copy of the Hobbit at some point, and I do plan on getting all of Tolkien's other non Middle-earth related works. Kind of hoping that they release new hardbacks of his other books to match the current hardback set, though. Probably not going to happen, but it would be nice if it did so they all match.

The collection is a bit cluttered, I know, but I don't really have many other options for display, so this'll have to do.

Close ups of each shelf below. Plus my DVDs and other related items. With the exception of the Funkos, most of the figurines, most of the hardbacks, and the black spine editions of HoME, everything was bought secondhand.

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Although I mainly post about our boy Lee in my blog, many of you may not know that I am a HUGE Lord of the Rings/Tolkien fan. I collect books, action figures, collectables, and movie replica weapons from the LOTR and Hobbit films. I've been collecting since 2001 and it's my favorite hobby! Today, my wonderful husband secured Sting, the Morgul blade, and the newest addition, Boromir's sword, to my display!

If you all would like to see more of my collection, let me know! I'd be happy to share it! Believe me, this is just a small bit of it!

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Have a lovely Tolkien Reading Day 🌟

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