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3 Nov, 2020
2020-11-3 6:25:30 PM UTC
Why do Letters, Morgoth's Ring, and Peoples of Middle Earth have separate copyrights? Put another way, what's the difference between the Tolkien Trust and various Tolkien Copyright Trusts?
3 Nov, 2020
2020-11-3 7:01:33 PM UTC

Caudimordax wrote:

Why do Letters, Morgoth's Ring, and Peoples of Middle Earth have separate copyrights? Put another way, what's the difference between the Tolkien Trust and various Tolkien Copyright Trusts?

I don't know the various differences, but it is not uncommon for an estate to have various trusts set up for different purposes. The Tolkien Trust is a public charitable trust set up by the family in 1977. The Tolkien Copyright Trust I would assume has other copyrighted works assigned to it, and it handles the income from those other books.

The reasons for having more than one trust are uncountable - different beneficiaries, different board of directors choosing how to distribute charitable donations, easier at some point to create a second trust than modify an existing one... the list could go on and on.
9 Nov, 2020
2020-11-9 3:30:01 PM UTC
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 1st Edition, 2nd Printing 1930

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9 Nov, 2020
2020-11-9 4:56:02 PM UTC
This may sound like blasphemy, but that dust jacket does no justice to the gorgeous book within. Wow!
9 Nov, 2020
2020-11-9 5:28:06 PM UTC
Sublime ! Bravo !!
The condition of the book is stunning, congrats Are there annotations inside or is it free of it?
9 Nov, 2020
2020-11-9 6:14:56 PM UTC
Thanks! The book has no annotations or writing
19 Nov, 2020
2020-11-19 12:52:07 AM UTC
Finally got a 1951. Have all of them from '42 onwards now (and only the '51 doesn't have a jacket). £270 from a dealer, which is probably not a bad deal based on what these seem to go for these days / how scarce they are. Decent nick, no bumped corners, etc, but a bit of foxing to the endpapers.

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19 Nov, 2020
2020-11-19 12:54:24 AM UTC

Stu wrote:

Finally got a 1951. Have all of them from '42 onwards now (and only the '51 doesn't have a jacket). £270 from a dealer, which is probably not a bad deal based on what these seem to go for these days / how scarce they are. Decent nick, no bumped corners, etc, but a bit of foxing to the endpapers.

That's a sharp looking copy! Nice find. I’ll throw this up here as it just came in (purchased for the fun illustrations).

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19 Nov, 2020
2020-11-19 12:55:32 AM UTC

Urulókë wrote:

Stu wrote:

Finally got a 1951. Have all of them from '42 onwards now (and only the '51 doesn't have a jacket). £270 from a dealer, which is probably not a bad deal based on what these seem to go for these days / how scarce they are. Decent nick, no bumped corners, etc, but a bit of foxing to the endpapers.

That's a sharp looking copy! Nice find.

It was an Abe for a total of about 10 minutes :)
19 Nov, 2020
2020-11-19 1:12:25 AM UTC
Great price on the 1951 Hobbit. Hard to find any bargains on Hobbits these days.

Urulókë, Always liked that Belarussian Hobbit cover (as you said - fun cover). Best thing about foreign translations are the illustrations.
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