The Tolkien Collector

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Cover of issue 27

The Tolkien Collector is a magazine for J.R.R. Tolkien collectors. The magazine is edited by Christina Scull and Wayne Hammond. It was founded in the Fall of 1992 and is still being printed today though less frequently.

Issue 1

  • Introductory issue (provisionally titled J.R.R. Tolkien Collecting and Bibliography Special Interest Group Magazine)
  • Notes on bibliographical references for Tolkien
  • New books
  • Sotheby's auction
  • 12 pages

Issue 2

Issue 3

Issue 4

  • "The Dutch One-Volume Lord of the Rings" by Christina Scull and Patrick Vandenhole; "Tolkien in Bulgaria" by Christina Scull

Issue 5

  • "Fair Dealing" by Wayne G. Hammond; "Tolkien and Linguaphone" by René van Rossenberg; "Works by and about Tolkien in Czech and Slovak" by Karel Makovsky

Issue 6

  • "The Silmarillion in Russian" by Christina Scull; "A Corrigenda to The Lord of the Rings" by David Bratman (published March 1994)

Issue 7

  • "The J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar 1994" by Wayne G. Hammond; "The Lord of the Rings in Japanese" by Christina Scull; "A Dutch Stephen Oliver" by René van Rossenberg

Issue 8

  • "Where's Tolkien?" by Wayne G. Hammond; "The Revised German Translation of The Lord of the Rings" by "SST"; "Farmer Giles of Ham, Smith of Wootton Major, and Mr. Bliss in Japan" by Christina Scull

Issue 9

  • "Translating Tolkien into Hebrew" by Yuval Kfir

Issue 10

  • "Too Many Books -- and Never Enough" by Wayne G. Hammond

Issue 11

  • "Ake Ohlmarks, Swedish Translator" by Johan Soderberg

Issue 12

  • "The 1996 J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar" by Christina Scull; "Dutch Editions of Tolkien's Works" by Johan Vanhecke. Published in February 1996.

Issue 13

  • "When the Collecting has to Stop!" by Christina Scull

Issue 14

  • All-news issue; no feature article

Issue 15

  • "Signatures, Labels, and Values" by Christina Scull; "Corrigenda to J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator" by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull

Issue 16

  • "Tolkien Dissertations and Theses in English" by Daniel Timmons

Issue 17

  • "J.R.R. Tolkien in France" by Jean-Marc Bouilly

Issue 18

  • "Tolkien Boom in Poland" by Agniesczka Sylwanowicz; "Caring for Your Tolkien Collection" by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond

Issue 19

  • All-news issue, abbreviated (12 pp.); no feature article

Issue 20

  • "Identifying First Edition Printings of the Houghton Mifflin Lord of the Rings, Part I" by Steven M. Frisby

Issue 21

  • "Identifying First Edition Printings of the Houghton Mifflin Lord of the Rings, Part II" by Steven M. Frisby; "The Tolkien Collector and the Internet" by Wayne G. Hammond

Issue 22

  • "Identifying First Edition Printings of the Houghton Mifflin Lord of the Rings, Part III" by Steven M. Frisby

Issue 23

  • "Sophisticated Tolkien, or The Integrity of the Book" by Christina Scull

Issue 24

  • "Is the Internet Collectible?" by Christina Scull

Issue 25

  • All-news issue; no feature article

Issue 26

  • All-news issue; no feature article

Issue 27

  • News; "A Mad Hobby" by "Garm"

Issue 28

  • All-news issue (especially with books about Tolkien and new translations of The Lord of the Rings; no feature article

Issue 29

  • All-news issue; no feature article

Issue 30

  • "Identifying First and Second Edition Printings of the Houghton Mifflin Hobbit" by Steven M. Frisby

Issue 31

Issue 32

  • "A Tolkien Classification System" by David Bratman; published in December 2011

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