Book Collection Tour: Part 2

This is part 2 of our collection of books so if you haven't seen it yet, please make sure to check out our Book Collection Tour: Part 1 !
Staying in our living room where three quarters of our books are housed, we move to the second of three bookcases. This one is a 'collection' fiesta, technically, of which you have seen the majority of already...

Top shelf! (Or maybe second depending on how you see it.) This shelf is for our precious Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and other Tolkien related books. Mr H used to be a big collector of Funko POP! Vinyls too, though downsized his collection last year only keeping the special LOTR, Harry Potter etc ones, two that you see here guarding the ring that I bought as a 13 year old fantasy fan!
To see Mr H's Tolkien collection in more detail and hear about it in his words make sure to click here and read his JRR Tolkien Collection post!

Originally, this whole bookcase was overtaken by purely Disney books. Part one showed that some of my Disney collection moved to that bookcase and others are even further away, in our bedroom. All that is left here are my Wonderful World of Reading books from around the 1950's to the 1990's and the newer Treasure Cove Story collectable books that, despite being from the past few years, include some absolutely beautiful old style artwork as well!

Lastly, on the bottom shelf is a part of another of our collections that you have already seen in more detail. Our full Harry Potter & The Wizarding World Book Collection can be seen if you click here, but as a quick explanation these books are my original childhood Potter series, the larger books in my series including art of, vaults etc and a couple other cool little magical world books - books from within the books and books about the books. How many times can I say books in one paragraph eh?

We have our 3rd instalment in this mini tour coming next month, however parts 1 and 2 are already outdated due to our book buying problem so maybe next year we'll have a re-arrange and re-tour! Maybe...


💀 Mr & Mrs Hallow 💀

JRR Tolkien Collection

As you may have noticed by now I (Mr Hallow) am a huge Tolkien fan. I was always a massive fan of the Lord of the Rings movies, and eventually a few years ago decided to read the books. This sparked my passion for reading. Now any time I see a book written by or about anything Tolkien related I have to buy it, this being said we only really buy books from charity shops/second hand book stores hence us not owning some on the beautiful books we see in Waterstones ect.
We thought we would use this post to show you the few books we have managed to collect up to this point in time.

Like any book enthusiast I have my favourites, the paperback edition in the black covers are my favourite looks wise. I love the dark matt covers with the shiny black runes and symbolism, I'm still missing this edition of the hobbit to complete the set, however I will pick it up soon. My other favourite from the collection is the hardback trilogy book illustrated by Alan Lee not only do I love the brown fabric of the book and the way it looks on the shelf but the illustrations and maps in this book are great. keeping with Alan Lee the last book I want to mention is my copy of the children on húrin, although I haven't actually got around to reading this I love the illustrations and every time I look at them I get so excited to read this.

At the moment I would say my collection I fairly small, I don't currently own any rare or valuable editions but some day I plan to. The book I own the most edition of is the hobbit I have five different editions one of which being a pop out children's book. I also own three books by Tolkien which aren't part of "the lord of the rings" they are The Silmarillon, The Children of Húrin and The Lost Tales part 1, out of which I have only read the The Silmarillion. I currently have my eye on the leather bound/flexibound books by David Day but I cant decide which to get first! Although I think I'm drawn towards "The Hobbits of Tolkien". I hope this post isn't too boring - it is my first blog post I have written without the help of Mrs H! So please bare with my I will get better at this!! With that being said let me know how I've done and tag me in your Tolkien post and pictures ect!

💀 Mr Hallow 💀