The Estate are not going after people using Shire in their name but Enterprises (Saul & Co) are, FITS look out.

Nearly everyone in England, Scotland, and Wales have lived in an area called a shire for at least 1000 years

Khamul wrote:
Apart from nearly every word in those two books he wrote...

BH

And there you have it - the word "Tolkien" does not appear in those two books, much to their chagrin. (They used "Tolkien Enterprises" and "Tolkien Quest" books, and... for years, until they got in trouble over it).

Yeh, the trouble is everything Middle-earth Enterprises license is, as they state, based on "Tolkien works" --& they own "exclusive worldwide rights to motion picture, merchandising, stage and other rights in certain literary works of J.R.R. Tolkien including The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit." Making them remove "Tolkien" from their name is total pedantry, in the grand scheme of things (--if that's what happened). Peter Jackson's films aren't based on any old Lord of the Rings and any old Hobbit --they're based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Whether The Tolkien Estate like this connection, or not, is immaterial --the connection exists.

BH

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Silmarillion- ... Books&hash=item27c6322f49

Art deco?

Yeh, 1977 was when the Art Deco movement was --wasn't it?

BH

The dust jacket is not price clipped stating 6s, and is in good condition...

Hmmm... I'm not sure if "good" really covers it.

J.R.R. Tolkien Farmer Giles of Ham UK 1st/1st

BH

Price plucked out of thin air...

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THE SILMARILLION - by J. R. R. Tolkien 1st HbDj 1977 Tolkien's tragic operatic

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Seller: 1117613

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This item ended more than 90 days ago

(Buy-It-Now AU $449.90)

BH

It's amazing the difference ten years can make in the price:

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THE HOBBIT - J.R.R. Tolkien - Houghton Mifflin 1966 HC/DJ 25th Printing

310396586880

Seller: downtownbooks-milw

(59986)

Ended Apr 26, 2012

This item ended more than 90 days ago

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Thanks for the links, Red. I couldn't resist buying the 1966 Hobbit, seemed to be in a very good condition and quite a good price!

Morgan wrote:
Thanks for the links, Red. I couldn't resist buying the 1966 Hobbit, seemed to be in a very good condition and quite a good price!

Unless they started using barcodes in 1966, that isn't a 1966 Hobbit. I'm pretty sure that US Editions always state the copyright as being 1966, even on much later printings...

Edit: The book states 25th printing, which is from 1968 (if the article I just looked at is correct), so the dust jacket with the barcodes does not match the book.