When I was a younger girl I was buying every possible copy of Pride & Prejudice I could get my hands on. I still kind of do that as the book covers for Jane Austen novels are always lovely.
Okay I have only ever owned one set of duplicates and that is LotR. Because I first bought it from Costco (wholesale store btw for those not in the know) as a paperback, condensed into one volume with Elijah Wood's face on the cover. COULD NOT HAVE CHOSEN AN UGLIER PACKAGE (it's not you Elijah, it's me). But now I own the 50th anniversary editions and holy shit let me just caress you bad boys.
lol it WAS a selling point at the time, but with each passing day it was like... why are you flaring your nostrils so much Elijah? But yeeeees to every book suddenly changing its cover come movie time. Maybe publishing companies are hoping it will convince all the plebes to buy/read books if famous people are on the cover? idk why but I can't stand it.
It came in a little box with the other two and this same picture is on the side of the *~*~display*~* box, but I suspect this picture was on the one-volume as well? Because I remember wanting that one but it was too big to fit into my backpack with my school books on a daily basis, so I settled, even though I hated the covers as well.
looool wait I think I thought I owned that one but actually bought this, which is Elijah-free. But ugh yes, it was NOT backpack friendly. Also those three books combined into one flimsy paperback? Why bother even binding it? JUST GIVE ME A SHEAF OF PRINTED PAGES AND THAT WOULD HOLD TOGETHER AS WELL.
Weren't there like, 47 different movie versions of all the books? And the BOOKMARKS! OH MAN THE BOOKMARKS!
OKAY I am going to admit something really, oh god, but it's so funny.
My BFF who made me the card featured here and I used to bring our books to class so that we could compare our highlighted notes, which were color coordinated according to which characters we liked best. We were very interested in elves so they were green, and then the Legolas bits (yes, I was one of those, early on) were blue. And then we tried to teach ourselves elvish, so I had to carry my LotR books with me to cross reference things with our worksheets, which we made up ourselves (mostly it was just learning pronouns and how to conjugate verbs).
LOL SHUT UP YOU JUST REMINDED ME OF MY GANDALF BOOKMARK (that I bought because gasp! it had a replica of the ONE RING hanging from it). I wanted to collect all of them so baaaad, but I just settled for the cheap ones my library was giving out.
A;LSDJKF;ALSKDFJ OHMYGOD. Firstly, that is the greatest card one human has ever made for another human. It's reminding me of the cute birthday collages my friends gave me in high school, but BETTER and Tolkienish. And noooootes omfg this is beyond cute. I'm glad this whole fandom had a resurgence when we were teens so we were just old enough to understand and appreciate the books, but young enough to still produce ridiculous things around it. Legolas pictures all over binders, quoting in class ("You don't have any friends!" Gollum/Smeagol debates forever), lusting over unaffordable movie memorabilia (who did not want that Evenstar necklace, but damn I would've settled for a Fellowship leaf pin). And elf name generators! Oh maaaan. So lucky to have these dumb memories.
I HAD IT ALSO, ACTUALLY, I HAD SEVERAL. and I STILL HAVE ALL THE RING REPLICAS. I think I had like, four or five of them?
RIGHT? My bff who made the card lives like, out in NOWHERE surrounded by forests so we used to like run around and pretend to be orcs and stuff. I don't know. I still hang out with her once a year or so, we get lunch, but she's very grown up and serious now and not so into it, but it's fun to talk about how into it we all were!
IT IS PART OF WHY I am so glad about this whole, LJ revival thing, because MOST OF THAT stuff for me happened on here, and it's like HOME YOU KNOW. I mean, I don't want to go back to middle school and high school, but there are parts of it that I miss that I'm convinced aren't just totally part of that and lost forever.
JEALOUS. I vow to buy all The Hobbit bookmarks if/when they are released. Like... every single dwarf. Even Bombur. Not even kidding.
UUUGH PRECIOUS PRECIOUS SO PRECIOUS! I want to run in forests and have a twig for a sword again. :( The closest I get now is on the off chance my sister and I are together, examining something outside, one of us starts up Aragorn's CSI hobbit-tracking monologue from The Two Towers ("Their bonds were broken, etc. etc.")
YES YES YES. I remember the exact reason I got a livejournal back in the day. Because I started hunting down forums after Prisoner of Azkaban came out and wound up somewhere here. So that rush of fantasy obsession, it's all totally focused in this site too. Ugh, single tear rolling dramatically down my cheek.
ME TOO UGH! Part of her 'yard' (it was like 63 acres or something ridiculous) looked EXACTLY like Parth Galen (why do I know that, why) so we were big fans of reenacting Boromir doing just about anything. My other favorite part is in Two Towers, where Arwen is walking through the dead looking forest in the cloaky thing, UGH I LOVE IT. I WANT TO DO THAT, IN A FOREST. I JUST WANT TO PRETEND AGAIN, THAT IS ALL. I wasn't even that young then, I was like, I don't know, 15-17?
EVEN BOMBUR. For some reason that is hilarious to me.
It's always been livejournal, really. AFTER ALL THIS TIME. Blogs are good, and with twitter and tumblr you meet people, but it's so much more insular than it is over here. We're all webbed together and all up in each other's posts and threads.
Geeky LOTR stanning FTW! I'm travelling New Zealand at the moment, and the road map me and my friends bought for our big roadtrip had little Ring symbols to show you where LOTR had been filmed! I was so nerdy whenever we were hiking and I recognised a location, it was totally embarassing. "OMG, THIS IS ITHILIEN. FARAMIR AND HIS RANGERS WERE OVER THERE. OMG, I'M WALKING THROUGH MORDOR. OMG, CLIMBING MOUNT DOOM."
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It came in a little box with the other two and this same picture is on the side of the *~*~display*~* box, but I suspect this picture was on the one-volume as well? Because I remember wanting that one but it was too big to fit into my backpack with my school books on a daily basis, so I settled, even though I hated the covers as well.
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OKAY I am going to admit something really, oh god, but it's so funny.
My BFF who made me the card featured here and I used to bring our books to class so that we could compare our highlighted notes, which were color coordinated according to which characters we liked best. We were very interested in elves so they were green, and then the Legolas bits (yes, I was one of those, early on) were blue. And then we tried to teach ourselves elvish, so I had to carry my LotR books with me to cross reference things with our worksheets, which we made up ourselves (mostly it was just learning pronouns and how to conjugate verbs).
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A;LSDJKF;ALSKDFJ OHMYGOD. Firstly, that is the greatest card one human has ever made for another human. It's reminding me of the cute birthday collages my friends gave me in high school, but BETTER and Tolkienish. And noooootes omfg this is beyond cute. I'm glad this whole fandom had a resurgence when we were teens so we were just old enough to understand and appreciate the books, but young enough to still produce ridiculous things around it. Legolas pictures all over binders, quoting in class ("You don't have any friends!" Gollum/Smeagol debates forever), lusting over unaffordable movie memorabilia (who did not want that Evenstar necklace, but damn I would've settled for a Fellowship leaf pin). And elf name generators! Oh maaaan. So lucky to have these dumb memories.
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RIGHT? My bff who made the card lives like, out in NOWHERE surrounded by forests so we used to like run around and pretend to be orcs and stuff. I don't know. I still hang out with her once a year or so, we get lunch, but she's very grown up and serious now and not so into it, but it's fun to talk about how into it we all were!
IT IS PART OF WHY I am so glad about this whole, LJ revival thing, because MOST OF THAT stuff for me happened on here, and it's like HOME YOU KNOW. I mean, I don't want to go back to middle school and high school, but there are parts of it that I miss that I'm convinced aren't just totally part of that and lost forever.
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UUUGH PRECIOUS PRECIOUS SO PRECIOUS! I want to run in forests and have a twig for a sword again. :( The closest I get now is on the off chance my sister and I are together, examining something outside, one of us starts up Aragorn's CSI hobbit-tracking monologue from The Two Towers ("Their bonds were broken, etc. etc.")
YES YES YES. I remember the exact reason I got a livejournal back in the day. Because I started hunting down forums after Prisoner of Azkaban came out and wound up somewhere here. So that rush of fantasy obsession, it's all totally focused in this site too. Ugh, single tear rolling dramatically down my cheek.
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EVEN BOMBUR. For some reason that is hilarious to me.
It's always been livejournal, really. AFTER ALL THIS TIME. Blogs are good, and with twitter and tumblr you meet people, but it's so much more insular than it is over here. We're all webbed together and all up in each other's posts and threads.
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C R Y I N G, best description of that scene ever!
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