About this collection

This site isn’t a full listing of every Tolkien book ever published. It’s just a big list of Tolkien-related items that I actually own. So if I haven’t got it, you won’t find it here. Besides, there are plenty of better sites out there that have complete bibliographies and everything.

I’ve tried to include a photo for every item, and a little bit of extra information too. I haven’t attempted to review any of the books here either - that would really be too great an undertaking for a part-time hobby, but you may find an occasional comment from me for editions I particularly like, or some books which proved overwhelmingly disappointing.

Remember too, that in most cases the ‘publication date’ I’ve given is the date that my particular copy was published, and not the date that the book was first published. Some items have very little additional information - sorry, but I just didn’t have the time to research everything in that kind of detail.

Please feel free to add comments with links to other sites with more detailed listings - or add comments with additional information that other visitors (or I) might find useful.

If you want to make me an offer for anything in the collection, then please do get in touch - but read the frequently asked questions first. I may not have time to reply, and certainly won’t want to break up complete sets for pennies.

You may notice some serious gaps in the collection. I was a bit nuts about Tolkien in my youth, so the majority of items here are from the late 70’s and 80’s. Interest was renewed when the movies came out in 2001-3, so there’s a fair few movie-related items too. But it’s fair to say that my fanaticism has waned in recent years.

Below is a list of the categories on this site, with number of items in brackets.

See also the index of all items