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c-rowlesdraws · 2 years ago

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Something that I’d forgotten until I dug the books out again, but which I think makes them a pretty fun piece of history, is that my editions of The Lord Of The Rings would be dateable down to the microsecond from looking at the covers alone even if I didn’t look them up online to confirm they were printed in 1999:

(please ignore my awful chipped nail polish I’m putting it out of its misery today)

Oh boy, a motion picture trilogy!! I hope it��s going to be good! I heard it’s being directed by that guy who made, uh, Meet The Feebles and Braindead? Weird choice, but I can try to keep an open mind…

#the lord of the rings #lotr #jrr tolkien #I also have the hobbit from this same print run but sadly I don’t have the box these books apparently originally came in #I’m pretty sure my parents bought these when the hype for the first movie was ramping up #because there weren’t any copies already in the house and they already knew their child was a big nerd and would probably want to read them #someday #(I did write a book report on the hobbit in elementary school and really loved it) (but the trilogy was beyond me still)#optimistically I took these books with me when I moved out and I'm glad I did!! Because now I can finally read them...

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