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The West needs to teach Beowulf more. It should be as known and influential on our upcoming generations as all other myth and religious documents. I want my kid to study Semitic, Greco-Roman, Norse and Old English myths.. then add Egyptian, South American, East Asian.. etc. But Beowulf must be a priority. I would say equal to or right after the Torah and New Testament.

Nice Gondor banner, Man of the West

I loved watching this video, Peter! Excellent viewing! 😄

I’ve already received the first two sets, and preordered the next two. Wonderfully put together and have been a joy to read this far. Loving the artwork!

Any news about the HC's 70th aniversary edition of the lord of the rings?

Amazing collection, Peter.

I got a great Alan Lee RotK from a book shop at Childers. Just south of Bundaberg.

Very cool! I just got that limited edition Unfinished Tales..., but mine seems to be missing the sketches and autographs from John, Alan and Ted....

Trotter is really small, Hobbit small indeed. The other guests don’t mention it. Stood up he can be no more than 15 inches tall. Either that or he has massive books that you couldn’t even pick up.

Amazing ❤

10 more hours of this please thank you

hopefully my Tolkien collection can look half as nice in 30 years because wow

Amazing collection. Great to see.

Thank you, Trotter! It was a pleasure to meet you and to show this amazing collection!

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Thank you to Tolkien Talk for the fantastic collaboration with the TCG.

Do you have any idea on the value or rarity of the 1986 book club edition?

That is a brilliant video, thanks to the four of you for taking the time to have a chat. I am of course very much looking forward to seeing more details. It's especially gratifying that dealers are using the Guide to Tolkien's Letters.

Beautiful classic edition 👌

The booger hurts my soul.

This woman sounds Brazilian… (coming from a Brazilian here).

They look exactly like they sound 😂

Thank you to everyone who came along to our live stream. All the support we've had so far, and in the future is very appreciated.

Very nice video. I love TCG. Glad to know more about Trotter! I have a few Tolkien books but Trotter and the others at this channel are on another level entirely! By the way I'll be Curmudgeon-watching season two of "Rings of Power" on my super low-tech channel "The Tolkien Curmudgeon", if anyone would like to join me....

it’s Trotter! what a legend.

Trotter, no matter how obscure, you seem to be in every Tolkien-related comment section I visist. How do you manage this? Ha ha. A fine interview, by the way.

It was a huge pleasure to chat with you, Trotter!

Great video, I really enjoyed listening to this!

Great video ! Happy to see you in your environment Trotter ! :)

Goals 🥹❤️

Gostei muito de filmar isso, obrigado Tolkien Talk.

Chris Bouchard also started another independent film called Human Residue. There is still a website for it too. Does anyone know what happened to that project?

That was wonderful! Thank you for bringing Chris on to talk about Hunt for Gollum 💜

Thank You Tom for the information you shared. 😄

Many Thanks Tom.

Who was the signed silmarillion inscribed to?! 🙃

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Priscilla Tolkien's apology for taking so long to return the Ruth Draper sounds very like her father.

The animated film was my LotRs for many years as I was nearly 30 when the films came out. Think i first read Rings in the mid 80s.

I got here from tom's chanel and saw the post with the question if books are a good investment. In my opinion; Short answer yes. Long answer no. Because the books that are, are getting harder and harder to find and often or mostly are way out of people's price range. I was in a archive run by volunteers and they had a book from 1636 listing stores in that city. It was in Dutch. And cost € 300. And a similair book for way less but it had mold in it. I was tempted but what market is there for a book about shops in a language not a lot speak. Big investment with a limited market for interested buyers.

What a fascinating and fun video. Thanks to Tom for joining and you guys for putting the video together.

Thanks for having me on! Great to speak with you both, and best wishes to Mr Underhill for a speedy recovery 📚📜

These Remington works were my introduction to Tolkien way back when--These covers, along with W. Carlos' Switched-on-Bach synthesizer music have colored my impression of the entire story ever since. I see it as an impressionistic/surreal/psychodelic feast of dark-sharp colorful angles of danger and a return to home--somewhat scoured. It is mystery and a journey to the unknowable, and unfortunately the more recent covers kinda remove the mystical bits of mystery. I still must be listening to Carlos' synthesizer improv of the 2nd movement of Brandenburg No. 3 in G major when reading the chapter on Shelob. (from the original LP, not the later release).

I have to agree that the quality of Folio's new LOTR LE set seems right but I'm underwhelmed with the design choices and look/aesthetics. Although it may have become cliche (for good reason), I associate Tolkien, esp,. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, with an earthier and more organic style/design and feel; lots of various browns, dark reds, forest greens, blacks. Red & blue as the primary color motif doesn't feel or look right to me. I do like Alan Lee's artwork and it fits with my imaginings, but only inside the books, not on the covers. At this price level the books should be completely leather bound, not quarter. I'd like to see the trilogy designed in the manner of ancient tomes in embossed brown leather with Smyth-sewn bindings. And like the standard Folio Tolkien series (which I have and enjoy), matching bindings and design of The Hobbit and Silmarillion, with all books in slipcases per usual (can't really store a trilogy in a clamshell or Solander box). Perhaps have the LOTR trilogy in dark brown leather (with embossed runes and sigils), The Hobbit in forest green leather, and the Silmarillion in a dark red or burgundy leather. And then perhaps different shades of brown for Unfinished Tales, black for the separate book of maps, etc. Don't over-design the books, either; keep things clean and simple. No writing along the edges or overdoing the graphics, etc. Promote the gravitas and mystery of the books.

Been listening to these guys forever and never actually looked up their pictures! So weird to finally connect voices to actual people

I had to have these.. I missed the initial offering and I saw they're selling for north of $4000... upwards of $5000... I managed to find a set in fine condition at a local independent used book store that apparently was out of touch with the outside market prices ... he was happy to part with them for $1900! I couldn't pull out my credit card fast enough. As for the price, it's going to be high... the amount of work that goes into this, and the fact that they can only sell 1000... the gross proceeds are 1,000,000 pounds, but the net after all expenses is likely 10% of that.. For example the Harper Colins version is likely printed and bound in China where costs are a fraction of what they are run the UK. Keeping it real.

Do you have any suggestions as to where I could sell an entire Easton Press 100 Greatest Books Ever Written set that is about 30 years old. Only a couple of issues are not in their original sealed wrapping. Thank you in advance for any help you could provide.

Thanks for posting this video as its own segment guys. I love this video, as I said previously, this is my favourite Tolkien fandom video!

One of my personal prized possessions is the paperback 50th anniversary edition that I bought in London after seeing a large window display that summer of 1987