The Registry of Lost Treasures - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Hilde Bracegirdle · 05-17-2007, 10:45 AM

This thread is not a listing of Golden Threads, which have been lost, but rather a registry to lament the loss of Tolkien related treasures once in your possession that have now gone missing. So instead of The Collection Grows, we have in effect the collection waning.

All this nostalgia was spurred by the twinges I have felt since taking on membership here, realizing that so many things I once owned have regrettably disappeared. (Being in a military family and rather bohemian afterward I feel weight limits were the culprit in my case. Mathoms were kept to a minimum, and so also were extraneous books.)

Anyway, the latest pang came when I saw this specimen after following a link off a link that davem had posted. Truly a mathom, I had one gifted to me and have lost track of it since, so that I forgot I even had had it. Surprisingly, it appears to be worth 75 euros now.

Other items on my personal list include:

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight/ Pearl/ Sir Orfeo

Farmer Giles of Ham

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

The Silmarillion

J. Cauty Poster

Pauline Baynes map

And a record that I can't find an image for.

Estelyn Telcontar · 05-17-2007, 01:09 PM

Sad stories indeed, Hilde - and that in the Mirth forum! I lost something at Tolkien 2005 in Birmingham - the button I bought as a souvenir at the LotR movie exhibition in Houston. I had it pinned to my totebag (made of my BD T-shirt) and when I discovered it had disappeared, I did ask, but it hadn't been found by the time I left. Nothing of any monetary worth, but I've gotten buttons or pins of all other LotR activities I've attended, so I am sad to have lost it.

Hilde Bracegirdle · 05-17-2007, 02:03 PM

Oh, that would be sad, to the memories attached and the reminder gone. Makes you wonder if it would be worth while putting an address on the back of such things!

And yes you are very right, this is an odd place for this sort of thread, but it didn't seem to fit into the description of Novice and Newcomer or the Barrow-downs catagory, so I thought to makes book-ends with The Collection Grows thread.

Bêthberry · 05-17-2007, 02:22 PM

Sam's beloved pans.

Seriously now, for me there is a missing, well, I suppose one could say treasure, although at the time such a characterisation was not claimed. It is not something I once had only to have it slip through my fingers. Rather is an experience I decided to forego. And now, there are not so much regrets or second thoughts, but musings on whether a road was lost for being not taken.

What was it, do you think.

Hilde Bracegirdle · 05-17-2007, 04:43 PM

I'm thinking along the lines of a short lived and daring spectacle, in which case I share in the musings.

But also do miss seeing LotR with my mind's eye, rather than Peter Jackson's.

Bêthberry · 05-17-2007, 04:56 PM

By jove, you've got it!

And aye, that is in some ways a greater loss, the freedom of the mind's eye. Do you think the passing of years might restore it to you?

05-17-2007, 10:45 AM	#1
Hilde Bracegirdle Relic of Wandering Days Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: You'll See Perpetual Change. Posts: 1,480	The Registry of Lost Treasures This thread is not a listing of Golden Threads, which have been lost, but rather a registry to lament the loss of Tolkien related treasures once in your possession that have now gone missing. So instead of The Collection Grows, we have in effect the collection waning. All this nostalgia was spurred by the twinges I have felt since taking on membership here, realizing that so many things I once owned have regrettably disappeared. (Being in a military family and rather bohemian afterward I feel weight limits were the culprit in my case. Mathoms were kept to a minimum, and so also were extraneous books.) Anyway, the latest pang came when I saw this specimen after following a link off a link that davem had posted. Truly a mathom, I had one gifted to me and have lost track of it since, so that I forgot I even had had it. Surprisingly, it appears to be worth 75 euros now. Other items on my personal list include: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight/ Pearl/ Sir Orfeo Farmer Giles of Ham The Adventures of Tom Bombadil The Silmarillion J. Cauty Poster Pauline Baynes map And a record that I can't find an image for. Last edited by Hilde Bracegirdle; 05-17-2007 at 10:59 AM.

05-17-2007, 01:09 PM	#2
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Sad stories indeed, Hilde - and that in the Mirth forum! I lost something at Tolkien 2005 in Birmingham - the button I bought as a souvenir at the LotR movie exhibition in Houston. I had it pinned to my totebag (made of my BD T-shirt) and when I discovered it had disappeared, I did ask, but it hadn't been found by the time I left. Nothing of any monetary worth, but I've gotten buttons or pins of all other LotR activities I've attended, so I am sad to have lost it. __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

05-17-2007, 02:22 PM	#4
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 5,996	Sam's beloved pans. Seriously now, for me there is a missing, well, I suppose one could say treasure, although at the time such a characterisation was not claimed. It is not something I once had only to have it slip through my fingers. Rather is an experience I decided to forego. And now, there are not so much regrets or second thoughts, but musings on whether a road was lost for being not taken. What was it, do you think. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

05-17-2007, 04:56 PM	#6
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 5,996	By jove, you've got it! And aye, that is in some ways a greater loss, the freedom of the mind's eye. Do you think the passing of years might restore it to you? __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

05-17-2007, 02:03 PM	#3
Hilde Bracegirdle Relic of Wandering Days Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: You'll See Perpetual Change. Posts: 1,480	Oh, that would be sad, to the memories attached and the reminder gone. Makes you wonder if it would be worth while putting an address on the back of such things! And yes you are very right, this is an odd place for this sort of thread, but it didn't seem to fit into the description of Novice and Newcomer or the Barrow-downs catagory, so I thought to makes book-ends with The Collection Grows thread.

05-17-2007, 04:43 PM	#5
Hilde Bracegirdle Relic of Wandering Days Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: You'll See Perpetual Change. Posts: 1,480	I'm thinking along the lines of a short lived and daring spectacle, in which case I share in the musings. But also do miss seeing LotR with my mind's eye, rather than Peter Jackson's.