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12-31-2004, 07:18 PM | #721 | |
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My Christmas was most joyous when I opened my last gift - revealing a replica of Sting! Spiffy-ness!!! In addition to that - I have several of the bookmarks, all the movies, the trilogy + Sim. in paperback, Monopoly, Checkers/Tic-tac-toe, playing cards and plently of posters. I saw the coolest thing (I'm weird) at Media Play and had to grab one. Lord of the Rings Legos! Yikes - I'd share a picture but I can't get it to upload...
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12-31-2004, 08:39 PM | #722 |
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That's perfectly all right, I wouldn't mind having the LOTR legos, so I'm weird, too.
Hey, like your avatar ! Hope you can find a calendar !
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01-02-2005, 03:36 PM | #723 | |
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Speaking of shopping woes: I recieved a TTT video from my brother and his wife for christmas. Unfortuneatly, already have one, so I exchanged it @ Target for a $5 gift card. All the games and toys pertaining to LOTR that I had seen Thanksgiving weekend were sold out! Oh well, I guess I'll try shopping at target.com
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01-06-2005, 03:32 PM | #724 |
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I feel a little foolish at my age for having barbies, but yeah I got the Galadriel barbie for christmas! She's simply beautiful and well displayed which is good because I don't like taking my figures out of the package.
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01-06-2005, 05:29 PM | #725 |
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You shouldn't. I know people in their 60's and 70's who collect Barbies. Heck, I'm 34 and I collect Teddy Bears, and there are people who are far older than me who do as well. Both are highly collectible.
I have only seen pics of the Galadriel Barbie, but she is beautiful. Don't care much for the Ken as Legolas--the body proportion's not quite right for and Elf. Nothing on my collection front except for more TCG cards. I am filtering through them to "weed out" (if you follow me) all of the Orcs, places, weapons, etc. to sell on ebay if I can. I try to collect mostly characters, 'specially Hobbits and ESPECIALLY SAM ! Come to think of it, I am trying to find a bear for my collection that strikes me just right to name "Sam"...haven't been able to find one, yet.
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01-06-2005, 07:07 PM | #726 | |
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Random Titles and...BABIES?!?
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Anyway, no Frodo pics on my day calendar yet, though I did get a precious one of Merry and a Legolas one that I gave to an obsessed friend.
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01-13-2005, 06:47 PM | #727 |
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I had no luck with finding any calenders in stores. Thanks for the links though Morai - I just need to get my paycheck and maybe I can finally get a calender. By the way, did you get your daily calender in stores?
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01-13-2005, 10:10 PM | #728 | |
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Obscure uses for Random Titles...like this
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01-14-2005, 08:12 AM | #729 |
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I still have my wall calendar from 2004 on the wall--next to my Sting, where it was all last year. I have it open to May, where the pic is a close up of Frodo and Sam.
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01-22-2005, 08:40 AM | #730 |
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Don't know if anyone's linked to these, but they're still available &, as well as being a good investment, they're very nice:
http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/s...&product=AS143 & http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/s...&product=AQ959 |
01-22-2005, 09:14 AM | #731 |
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Re: Stamps
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01-30-2005, 01:38 AM | #732 |
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Well, I know it's been a long time, but since the last time I posted here I have been very fortunate to receive the lovely Galadriel Barbie (oh, she is so beautiful, the hair, and the dress is just perfect), the LOTR daily calendar (another must, I do hope they have one next year because I just can't imagine my desk without it), and the Elven frame from the Noble Collection (which was a great surprise, it was something that I just got, but it is quite beautiful, though I haven't been able to find a picture that suits it)
I am extremely selective about what LOTR things that I buy, but I do think that I will consider purchasing Eowyn's sword when it finally comes out
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01-30-2005, 03:27 PM | #733 | |
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01-30-2005, 06:38 PM | #734 | |
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01-30-2005, 07:44 PM | #735 |
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For Christmas I received Grima and Saruman Lego men from a good friend who knows well of my fangirlish tendencies! So now little Grima is my muse, and I swear, he works. Occasionally Saruman has to whack him with his staff, because otherwise Grima wouldn't be so bitter... and that means less angst, which makes Enca an unhappy writer.
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01-30-2005, 08:16 PM | #736 | |
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Just because they are so wonderfully clear, and also because I guess I could use them for some LOTR related craft project... if I suddenly became creative
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02-01-2005, 04:39 PM | #737 | ||
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Happiness! I finally got my LOTR calenders. I had to go through the official store but I have them - the desk and the wall. And I must say... it was well worth the wait. Quote:
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02-01-2005, 06:27 PM | #738 |
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Talking of calendars ...
The Tolkien 50th Anniversary Calendar is wonderful - it features illustrations by the Professor himself.
Today I moved from Old Man Willow to his vision of Rivendell. Last year, I had the RotK calendar. Which was nice. But I much prefer this one. Fittingly, it sits above my monitor as I browse the Downs.
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03-12-2005, 03:50 AM | #739 |
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I finally found an online image of the RotK puzzle I have - and have put together. Here it is: RotK 1000-piece round puzzle
Now I have found what is said to be a limited edition trilogy puzzle set (3 puzzles), including that one and one each for FotR and TTT. It's in a round metal box, very classy, making it look like a great collectible. !t was offered by a book club to which a friend belongs; she told me about it and ordered it for me. I found a picture of the box here: Trilogy puzzle
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03-12-2005, 08:58 AM | #740 |
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Oooh.
Seen the round puzzle before. Think for myself I would like the TTT one best...'cause it features my Sam.
er....round one? I meant the FOTR one....
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03-13-2005, 06:23 AM | #741 |
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Where do you people live that you are able to find such wonderful things!?! If it is not UK based then can you give me some shop names so I can try to find the websites?
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03-13-2005, 08:31 AM | #742 |
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I live in Germany, which is where the game and puzzle company Ravensburger is located, so I might be able to get the puzzles more easily here. However, toy shops and shops specializing in comics and fan articles should be good sources for some things. In London, 'Forbidden Planet' has lots of stuff! And of course you can search the web - there are plenty of things being sold at E-Bay.
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03-15-2005, 08:57 PM | #743 |
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I'm in the western US. Some wonderful things that I've gotten (aside from ebay, which has been mentioned) is sideshowtoy.com
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03-16-2005, 03:26 AM | #744 |
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Samwise, that site has some wonderful things on it. I was taken with the Bilbo statue, which is unfortunately now 'retired'. Maybe I will look on e-bay for it. I've lately found I like the Weta collectibles, but they are considerably more expensive than the action figures - my whole collection of these would probably only buy a handful of Weta items! But I do have these Bag End bookends which davem bought for me. I'm not sure he likes them, but he knew I'd love them!
In the UK, Toys R Us is actually a good place to get action figures, as they are at half the price they sell for in Forbidden Planet, and if you're lucky you can get the rare ones. They also sell things like puzzles and board games. E-bay of course is the best place to go, not only for the film collectibles but for nice old editions of the books, and all kinds of ephemera. But always make sure to stick to a limit on what you'll pay!
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03-16-2005, 07:23 AM | #745 |
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Those bookends are lovely, Lal! What a nice present! (Pssst, careful if he wants to give you a 'unique', one-only ring... )
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03-16-2005, 09:11 AM | #746 | |
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They're my favorite 3D LOTR item-- except MAYBE the Minas Tirith model. One of the se days I should post another picture, but first I have to clean and organize the bookshelf-- which means, now, that part of the collection must migrate to ANOTHER set of shelves... Perhaps I'll put my boxed-trilogy collection on a shelf all its' own...
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03-16-2005, 03:20 PM | #747 |
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Lalwendë
My favorite peice is, of course, my 9-inch polystone Sam and Bill. Unfortunately, my choice of where to keep them probably wasn't the safest place, but my mother has plenty of paint.
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03-26-2005, 07:17 AM | #748 |
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I have over 350 Tolkien or related items, 112 of which are books. My favourite item though is Gimli`s Axe, man it is sooo heavy.
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03-26-2005, 09:16 AM | #749 | |
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03-26-2005, 09:21 AM | #750 | |
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03-31-2005, 07:57 AM | #751 |
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Things, Things, and more Things.
Around the house i have the most "junk" to everyone else, but my prize possession. Every time i go to the store I always take a stroll back through the toy section to take a look at the LotR action figures.
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03-31-2005, 08:25 AM | #752 |
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My latest item...
...I actually recieved as a complete surprise a week or so ago. A friend had mentioned that she "saw it" in the store some time ago, and "thought of me", never mentioning, of course, that she'd actually BOUGHT it!
Anyway, imagine my surprise to get a package I didn't expect, THEN to open it and find a copy of There and Back Again, An Actor's Tale , by Sean Astin! Haven't had much chance to read it yet, but I will.
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04-01-2005, 06:30 PM | #753 | |
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06-24-2005, 10:57 PM | #754 | |
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Slight rant.
We haven't heard from Samwise in a while. I had to scramble over to the second page to find and retrieve this collectibles thread.
This topic isn't exactly appropriate for Mirth, but I didn't know where else to put it. (I don't think crying is allowed in this Forum so please excuse if I shed a gentle tear.) This evening I saw a collectible on e-bay that was so extraordinary I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. For a mere $15,000 you can purchase a detailed eight page letter from Tolkien written in 1947 to another professor at Oxford in which JRRT discusses languages and their relation to society. Click here for ebay listing. The letter is typescript and single spaced and seems to be packed with annotations in Tolkien's own hand. The snippet that they quote from this gem seems intriguing in that it shows Tolkien as being more sympathetic to change than sometimes thought, at least in the sphere of linguistic development. Quote:
This letter may be snarfed up by a well-to-do private collector and that is the last we will ever see of it, never to know what is on those other seven pages. Or, if we are lucky, it will be purchased by a dealer in rare books and manuscripts and will ultimately be resold in a larger venue and perhaps eventually make its way to a library or other public collection. I guess what I am saying is that something like this belongs in a "mathom house" where anyone can come and read it instead of tucked away in someone's bureau or safety deposit box. The Baggins family obviously understood this when their mithril coat was donated to the local mathom house.
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06-25-2005, 04:49 AM | #755 |
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Child, if you're interested, you can click on the photo and read the first page.
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06-25-2005, 09:29 AM | #756 |
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Oh, my....
Per Miss Child's statements regarding Prof. Tolkien's work:
How very true, Child. My most recent collectible was a book snd to me by a friend. It was A Hobbit's Travels: being the hitherto unpublished Travel Sketches of Sam Gamgee ~with space for notes~ I fully intend to use it someday, as I am a journalizer (is that a word? Well, if you follow me....)
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06-25-2005, 05:13 PM | #757 |
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About a month ago, my husband came home and gave me Gollum. The 'official' movie action figures from RotK. It was the Gollum that is standing on a big rock. There's a button on the rock when pushed he says two phrases. This was really sweet because he (husband) does not share my love of LotR and all things Tolkien.
Today, I got the 'ArtAsylum minimates', they look like Lego figures. The box I bought has Frodo, Gandalf, and Gollum. The other box has Saruman, Aragorn, and Legolas. Each box has a hidden figure inside! You'll have to P.M. me for the secret.
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06-26-2005, 09:15 AM | #758 | |
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06-26-2005, 03:13 PM | #760 | |
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The frustrating thing is that they originally had a number of photos up showing the content of the various pages. Before I could get back to reading them, they had been erased from e-bay. I occasionally post on another "collectibles" site and the resident expert there (a book dealer from England) managed to get copies of those pages before they were taken down, and has offered to share them with others. So I just may drop him a pm.
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