Saw this and wished I were rich...... - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Mithalwen · 03-24-2005, 01:31 PM

Well having my latest copy of LOTR disintegrate I am in the market for a replacement.... but alas it won't be this...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...sPageName=WDVW

Kuruharan · 03-24-2005, 04:43 PM

Actually, if I had those, I'd be afraid to ever use them or anything. I'd stuff them in a nice airtight glass case and leave them there.

This would, however, still leave me without usable copies, so maybe it is just as well that I am dirt poor.

AbercrombieOfRohan · 03-24-2005, 04:53 PM

Well, I was saving for a trip to England, but this might be a better cause...

Essex · 03-24-2005, 05:16 PM

a bit of a cop out that the books are only signed by the RECIPIENT of the letters.

I wouldn't mind an original LETTER from tolkien though, I suppose.

Boromir88 · 03-24-2005, 05:53 PM

Even if I had that kind of money, I wouldn't get it. I mean it would be neat to have such a thing, but there are many instances where the stuff you buy off the internet isn't really what you paid for. A lot of the times it's just imitations. It would be neat to get my hands on it (if it was what it says it is).

Rimbaud · 03-25-2005, 08:42 AM

When surely you really want this .

Kuruharan · 03-25-2005, 10:43 AM

...drool, drool, drool...

Bêthberry · 03-25-2005, 11:57 AM

Bah I say. What's all this hoarding of relics?

Next someone will be auctioning off the cutlery from the Tolkien family table, or perhaps the letter-opening knife which Tolkien used and calling it a relic from some barrow. Or mayhap a brooch of Edith's. Me? I 'm holding out for a bottle of the last waters that flooded over Meneltarma.

ElementFire · 03-26-2005, 09:51 AM

wow *whistles* spiffy

Kitanna · 03-27-2005, 06:50 PM

My dad's copies of LOTR are like that. Though it's not the first edition, it's the revised edition, but it looks the same to me.
But I don't think it's worth it to buy those books. You'd never want to read them. Which kinda defeats the purpose.

ElementFire · 03-29-2005, 11:20 AM

My copy is...torn and ripped, and faded and old, and not very nice to look at, but you can still read it!!!

Mithalwen · 03-30-2005, 09:16 AM

But I would read them - just maybe not in the bath.... and I would put them down carefully not just shove it under the pillow... and as for the money - yes it is a lot but sometimes it depends on your priorities. I mean some people spend a lot of money on cars I mean this is out of my league, if you bought a new beamer it would have lost the price of the first edition as you drove it out of the showroom...... And apparently the average price of a wedding in the UK is now £17K ..... makes a first edition LOTR seem a bargain .... and you know it will last a lifetime.... but if I had £2K+ to spare now I would go back to NZ......

Lalwendë · 03-30-2005, 09:55 AM

If I had such an edition then I would read them, but carefully, and without a ciggie on the go. I always think a book is meant to be read, so I would have to read even the most expensive editions, but I'd store them in a North facing room to keep 'em safe from the nassty yellow face.

With collecting, a thing is only really 'worth' as much as you are willing to pay for it; if you want it really badly then you will pay more. This is what makes collecting a risky investment. You might think, to take a recently topical item, action figures would increase in value over time, but you can never be sure as changing tastes in collectables and antiques dictate the market prices, as collectors of ivory and tortoiseshell have found out to their cost. The best advice I've heard is only to invest in something because you find it desirable yourself, and I like those books a lot, but do I like them enough to splash out all that much money? My favourite copy is still the battered paperback set I first read when I was a youngster, and that's worth more to me than any other edition.

Mithalwen · 03-30-2005, 10:18 AM

Well my first set of paperbacks survived long enough to be ' lent' ( it tends to be a fairly permanent arrangement where she is concerned

) , to my god daughter after she saw the first film but they were already reinforced with aging sellotape and ROTK self destructed as she read it leaving her to kidnap her brother's one volume edition.

I then bought the film edition paperbacks and once again ROTK is the first casualty having lost the back cover. I think I do need hard backs....

Lalwendë · 03-30-2005, 10:35 AM

No matter how battered they get, don't ever throw them away, as you may regret it one day! I daren't hazard a guess as to how many copies of each of the books there are in the house now, but each has its own non-monetary value. I obtained a nice box set of 1970's editions for davem recently, and though neither rare nor perfect, they were what he wanted and as such, valuable in their own right.

But for cheap editions, e-bay is your place to go. Or obscure book fairs, where a first edition of The Sil was snapped up for just £2.50 the other day.

Mithalwen · 03-30-2005, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Lalwendë

No matter how battered they get, don't ever throw them away, as you may regret it one day! I daren't hazard a guess as to how many copies of each of the books there are in the house now, but each has its own non-monetary value. I obtained a nice box set of 1970's editions for davem recently, and though neither rare nor perfect, they were what he wanted and as such, valuable in their own right.

But for cheap editions, e-bay is your place to go. Or obscure book fairs, where a first edition of The Sil was snapped up for just £2.50 the other day.

Well the originals, I would have kept regardless ( were they not still with GD ..) since they are the originals and bring back memories .... (the edition with the elvish letters in a circle and the red eye.... bought about 1980? ) ... an dI was looking on Ebay when I found the above.......

Orominuialwen · 03-30-2005, 05:27 PM

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a first edition of The Sil was snapped up for just £2.50 the other day.

I recently got a US first edition of Silm at a used book store for about $9 US. It's great!

Between the two of us, my brother and I have 4 copies of LotR, 2 of the Hobbit, and 2 of Silm. Everything else we only have one of, or just don't own.

Mithalwen · 03-31-2005, 11:42 AM

since the book was merely owned by him ....

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...sPageName=WDVW

and I don't have Tolkien's interest in Gothic....

03-24-2005, 01:31 PM	#1
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,458	Saw this and wished I were rich...... Well having my latest copy of LOTR disintegrate I am in the market for a replacement.... but alas it won't be this... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...sPageName=WDVW __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

03-24-2005, 04:43 PM	#2
Kuruharan Regal Dwarven Shade Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: A Remote Dwarven Hold Posts: 3,593	Actually, if I had those, I'd be afraid to ever use them or anything. I'd stuff them in a nice airtight glass case and leave them there. This would, however, still leave me without usable copies, so maybe it is just as well that I am dirt poor. __________________ ...finding a path that cannot be found, walking a road that cannot be seen, climbing a ladder that was never placed, or reading a paragraph that has no...

03-24-2005, 05:53 PM	#5
Boromir88 Laconic Loreman Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: USA Posts: 7,519	Even if I had that kind of money, I wouldn't get it. I mean it would be neat to have such a thing, but there are many instances where the stuff you buy off the internet isn't really what you paid for. A lot of the times it's just imitations. It would be neat to get my hands on it (if it was what it says it is). __________________ Fenris Penguin

03-25-2005, 08:42 AM	#6
Rimbaud The Perilous Poet Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Heart of the matter Posts: 1,062	Cheap at the price When surely you really want this . __________________ And all the rest is literature

03-25-2005, 10:43 AM	#7
Kuruharan Regal Dwarven Shade Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: A Remote Dwarven Hold Posts: 3,593	Wow! ...drool, drool, drool... __________________ ...finding a path that cannot be found, walking a road that cannot be seen, climbing a ladder that was never placed, or reading a paragraph that has no...

03-24-2005, 04:53 PM	#3
AbercrombieOfRohan Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 311	Well, I was saving for a trip to England, but this might be a better cause...

03-24-2005, 05:16 PM	#4
Essex Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Essex, England Posts: 886	a bit of a cop out that the books are only signed by the RECIPIENT of the letters. I wouldn't mind an original LETTER from tolkien though, I suppose.

03-25-2005, 11:57 AM	#8
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 5,997	Bah I say. What's all this hoarding of relics? Next someone will be auctioning off the cutlery from the Tolkien family table, or perhaps the letter-opening knife which Tolkien used and calling it a relic from some barrow. Or mayhap a brooch of Edith's. Me? I 'm holding out for a bottle of the last waters that flooded over Meneltarma. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.

03-26-2005, 09:51 AM	#9
ElementFire Animated Skeleton Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: The Gama Quadrant Posts: 33	wow whistles spiffy __________________ He who stands on toilet is high on pot. XP I don't do kung fu, I do kung lamb!!!

03-27-2005, 06:50 PM	#10
Kitanna Child of the West Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Watching President Fillmore ride a unicorn Posts: 2,132	My dad's copies of LOTR are like that. Though it's not the first edition, it's the revised edition, but it looks the same to me. But I don't think it's worth it to buy those books. You'd never want to read them. Which kinda defeats the purpose. __________________ "Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain

03-29-2005, 11:20 AM	#11
ElementFire Animated Skeleton Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: The Gama Quadrant Posts: 33	My copy is...torn and ripped, and faded and old, and not very nice to look at, but you can still read it!!! __________________ He who stands on toilet is high on pot. XP I don't do kung fu, I do kung lamb!!!

03-30-2005, 09:16 AM	#12
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,458	But I would read them - just maybe not in the bath.... and I would put them down carefully not just shove it under the pillow... and as for the money - yes it is a lot but sometimes it depends on your priorities. I mean some people spend a lot of money on cars I mean this is out of my league, if you bought a new beamer it would have lost the price of the first edition as you drove it out of the showroom...... And apparently the average price of a wedding in the UK is now £17K ..... makes a first edition LOTR seem a bargain .... and you know it will last a lifetime.... but if I had £2K+ to spare now I would go back to NZ...... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace Last edited by Mithalwen; 03-30-2005 at 09:22 AM.

03-30-2005, 09:55 AM	#13
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	If I had such an edition then I would read them, but carefully, and without a ciggie on the go. I always think a book is meant to be read, so I would have to read even the most expensive editions, but I'd store them in a North facing room to keep 'em safe from the nassty yellow face. With collecting, a thing is only really 'worth' as much as you are willing to pay for it; if you want it really badly then you will pay more. This is what makes collecting a risky investment. You might think, to take a recently topical item, action figures would increase in value over time, but you can never be sure as changing tastes in collectables and antiques dictate the market prices, as collectors of ivory and tortoiseshell have found out to their cost. The best advice I've heard is only to invest in something because you find it desirable yourself, and I like those books a lot, but do I like them enough to splash out all that much money? My favourite copy is still the battered paperback set I first read when I was a youngster, and that's worth more to me than any other edition. __________________ Gordon's alive!

03-30-2005, 10:18 AM	#14
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,458	Well my first set of paperbacks survived long enough to be ' lent' ( it tends to be a fairly permanent arrangement where she is concerned ) , to my god daughter after she saw the first film but they were already reinforced with aging sellotape and ROTK self destructed as she read it leaving her to kidnap her brother's one volume edition. I then bought the film edition paperbacks and once again ROTK is the first casualty having lost the back cover. I think I do need hard backs.... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace

03-30-2005, 10:35 AM	#15
Lalwendë A Mere Boggart Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: under the bed Posts: 4,737	No matter how battered they get, don't ever throw them away, as you may regret it one day! I daren't hazard a guess as to how many copies of each of the books there are in the house now, but each has its own non-monetary value. I obtained a nice box set of 1970's editions for davem recently, and though neither rare nor perfect, they were what he wanted and as such, valuable in their own right. But for cheap editions, e-bay is your place to go. Or obscure book fairs, where a first edition of The Sil was snapped up for just £2.50 the other day. __________________ Gordon's alive!

03-31-2005, 11:42 AM	#18
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,458	This IS a bit steep.... since the book was merely owned by him .... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...sPageName=WDVW and I don't have Tolkien's interest in Gothic.... __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace