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jimmyfenn
Nargothrond
Nov 24 2012, 11:10pm
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what book edition is most special to you/that you read most
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for lotr
example i found this 1970's version when i was young and it seemed like an old relic that id discovered tottaly drew me into the story...
http://www.tolkienbooks.net/images/main/lr/lr-1980.gif
..but my most special possesion is the centenary hard back edition in a blue box, silver bands round the top and bottom! cant find any picture sof it though
i need to get a new edition so dont ruin my old ones..??
for the hobbit it is always the traditional tolkein picture front cover, just doesnt seem right otherwise![url][/url][url][/url][url][/url]
for quickbeam often laughed, he laughed if the sun came out from behind a cloud, he laughed if they came upon a stream or spring:
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mandel
Ossiriand
Nov 25 2012, 1:27am
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In 4th grade, I discovered ROTK in my elementary school library, with this cover:
http://tinyurl.com/bl3ov4v
What caught my attention were the appendices: my love of secondary world-building was already in me, in the form of a nascent curiosity about these curious charts and timelines and bits of expository text. The library had neither FOTR not TTT, so I just dove in and read ROTK. I didn't fully understand what was going on, but I loved it.
Soon, I got my hands on secondhand copies of these lovely paperbacks:
http://lotrscrapbook.bookloaf.net/...kcovers/pages/06.htm
I didn't know at the time that his was Tolkien's art, but the paintings seemed to be of some time in the dim forgotten past, and so I lovingly read the whole trilogy in these beaten-up old mass market paperbacks...
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sherlock
Mithlond
Nov 25 2012, 11:02am
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Leather LOTR & green The Hobbit that my late husband bought me shortly after we met 35 years ago. He had my name engraved on both of them. I don't usually read this one because it's too big to hold in my hand. I have all three LOTR books in a hard bound boxed set & those are the ones I read. Right now I'm reading my hard bound, illustrated by Alan Lee version of The Hobbit.
My husband also bought me all the special versions of the soundtracks to LOTR & had my name engraved on them. Howard Shore liked that & now they are signed by him.
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geordie
Dor-Lomin
Nov 25 2012, 11:42am
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- very moving. I like to hear of which books mean the most to other readers of Tolkien. My own is a very special copy of the 1st India paper edition of LotR, from 1969.
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dernwyn
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Nov 25 2012, 1:21pm
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That's the problem with the editions that are special...
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...they tend to be read most often, and thus "ruined" more easily!
My most special edition of the trilogy has one signature of FotR loosening along the binding, and my RotK has a coffee stain on one edge. But they're the ones I've made notes and underlines in, and the ones I pull out for quick reference.
During the summers of 1972-1975, my college years, I worked in my high school library, processing the new books. In those days, that meant typing out the cards to be inserted into the card catalog - no MARC coding and electronic retrieval systems back then! 
The school librarian knew I was an avid LotR fan with falling-to-pieces paperbacks, so as a thank-you for my help, she purchased a set of second-edition Houghton Mifflins for me. I still have the dust jackets - she'd put clear covers on them.
(Unfortunately, I threw out the paperbacks, which were also pretty marked up! Also I'd noted inside the cover of FotR the month and year each time I'd read them. I remember there were at least 17 dates...)
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macfalk
Doriath
Nov 25 2012, 1:23pm
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Alas, I have no Tolkien book in it's original language, English, they're all translated. I have to fix that soon...
The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
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Faenoriel
Dor-Lomin
Nov 25 2012, 1:51pm
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The one and the only; Kaapuhemmo!
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There is no other.
But every word you say today
Gets twisted 'round some other way
And they'll hurt you if they think you've lied
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shadowdog
Nargothrond
Nov 25 2012, 3:11pm
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paperback edition. This version is starting to fall apart and I need to get a new set. 
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Faenoriel
Dor-Lomin
Nov 25 2012, 3:16pm
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But every word you say today
Gets twisted 'round some other way
And they'll hurt you if they think you've lied
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shadowdog
Nargothrond
Nov 25 2012, 3:19pm
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and easier to cart around as I traveled. LOL I do have the autographed hardcopy of The Hobbit that I got at the charity auction last year.
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geordie
Dor-Lomin
Nov 25 2012, 5:49pm
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An autographed copy of The Hobbit??
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- can you tell us more?
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Sam20
Menegroth
Nov 25 2012, 8:44pm
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Well as for me that's pretty simple: 2004 HaperCollins paperback edition of LOTR. It's basically what you can find at the lowest price and you can carry it everywhere without fearing to dammage it.
@shadowdog Autographed by Tolkien himself??? 
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shadowdog
Nargothrond
Nov 25 2012, 11:51pm
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The auction was posted about in here last year.
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It was autographed by all the dwarfs.
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elevorn
Menegroth
Nov 26 2012, 6:15pm
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of the Hobbit for me. I plan on getting the anniversary edition of LOTR soon as well. I like the hard covers, always makes it feel more like serious reading to me. and well...it is serious reading.
"clever hobbits to climb so high!"
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Ziggy Stardust
Mithlond
Nov 27 2012, 2:01am
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the 50th anniversary one volume edition. I own both the paperback and hardcover. The text size is perfect and the pages are good quality.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
Elvenhome
Nov 27 2012, 6:28pm
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My husband got those for me 34 years ago :-)
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(the red and green "leather" ones, that is). They were his wedding present to me <3
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Aunt Dora Baggins
Elvenhome
Nov 27 2012, 6:31pm
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My favorite is the red "leather" one
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that was my husband's wedding present to me in 1978, along with the green Hobbit.
The first one I had was the Ballantine paperbacks with the hippy covers. I read them almost to smithereens. But lately the one I read the most is the single-volume paperback. It's nice and small and easy to carry around, but I like having all three volumes at my fingertips.
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"For DORA BAGGINS in memory of a LONG correspondence, with love from Bilbo; on a large wastebasket. Dora was Drogo's sister, and the eldest surviving female relative of Bilbo and Frodo; she was ninety-nine, and had written reams of good advice for more than half a century."
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grammaboodawg
Elvenhome
Nov 27 2012, 7:57pm
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The original Ballantine set I've been reading for 40+ years :)
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I have ooodles of editions, but this is still the one I read exclusively at least once a year. The books are highlighted, marked up, TORn, and tear-stained. My precious!
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I really need these new films to take me back to, and not re-introduce me to, that magical world.
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