Reviews, articles, and lots of pictures for Tolkien collectibles. Also the home of the Shire Radio, an online audio feed with just about every Tolkien related or inspired song ever.

Mary is offering a wonderful service for collectors interested in translations of Tolkien’s works. She maintains a list of currently active eBay auctions that match her rigorous search criteria, and put them into a readable, simple table format with Language, Title, seller, link, and auction end time.

News on upcoming publications, addenda and corrigenda on works already in print.

"The Springlering collection is a private collection, based in Atlanta, Georgia. It is dedicated to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, and includes over 5,000 licensed movie items, as well as several thousand movie and magazine clippings.

Many of these items are very rare press or promo items, or consumer items that were produced and thrown away (popcorn bags, soda cups), and hence are now rare as a result.

This website is an effort to share these items with fans and collectors all over the world."

Great articles, reviews, and more on Tolkien collecting.

Festival in the Shire: A celebration of all things Tolkien inspired. J.R.R. Tolkien inspired Conference, Exhibition and Festival

August 13th -15th, 2010 at Y Plas, Machynlleth, Wales, United Kingdom.


Machynlleth is to host an exciting new international festival next year. Festival in the Shire is a conference, exhibition and fair celebrating themes inspired by the author J.R.R. Tolkien which will be held in the town’s historic Y Plas house and grounds.

This three day festival caters to serious Tolkien fans as well as families and everyone else by holding three separate events for different audiences. Tolkien literature enthusiasts will have the opportunity to delve deeper into Tolkien’s work with a three day conference entitled ‘Welsh influences on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien’. This will feature internationally respected speakers such as Jane Chance, Douglas Anderson, Tom Shippey, Colin Duriez, John Garth, and Verlyn Flieger and includes experts from Welsh universities such as Dimitra Fimi from University of Wales Institute Cardiff (UWIC), a specialist on Tolkien’s Welsh connections and his use of the Welsh language.

Keen collectors of Tolkien’s books and Tolkien inspired art will be delighted at the exhibition element of the festival. The exhibition will showcase rare first editions of Tolkien’s books, original art and other Tolkien artefacts. Many of these pieces are from private collections and unlikely to be shown again. In addition to displaying their paintings some of the famous artists who have illustrated Tolkien’s books will be present at this event and attendees will have the exciting opportunity to meet them and discuss their work. Artists attending include Roger Garland, Ted Nasmith, Jef Murray, Peter Pracownik and Ruth Lacon.

For information or to participate in Festival in the Shire visit www.FestivalintheShire.com or email info@FestivalintheShire.com

A community board where news of interest to Tolkien fans is regularly updated.

Eldamar is an italian website dedicated to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. You can find the latest news on the italian and british editions of Tolkien books, criticism and scholarly studies, along with notes on the scarce and rare books entering and leaving my collection.

Includes chronological bibliographies of writings by and about J.R.R. Tolkien.

A remarkably complete listing of computer games based on Tolkien's Middle-earth, through about 2001. Documents freeware, shareware, MUDs, commercial releases, and everything inbetween.