Lot 338

One of 500 Super Deluxe Copies Only Tolkien (J.R.R.) Narn, Chin Hurin The Tale of the Children of Hurin, 8vo edited by Christopher Tolkien, illustrated by Alan Lee, Signed Limited Super Deluxe Edition No. 119 (500) copies, marbled endpapers, full blue leather with helmet motif on front cover, gilt lettered spine, a.e.g., in full matching leather clam box.

Estimate: €800-€1200

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Lot 282

Tolkien (J R R), The Lord of the Rings, 3 vols., 1961, with DW's and box cover Box cover some scuffing, dirty and with a sellotape repair to the base

Estimate: £200-£300

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Lot 2002

FINN AND HENGEST; THE FRAGMENT AND THE EPISODE BY J.R.R. TOLKEIN, EDITED BY ALAN BLISS, WITH DUST JACKET - 1982

Estimate: £100-£200

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Lot 2003

THE MONSTERS AND THE CRITICS AND OTHER ESSAYS BY J.R.R. TOLKEIN, EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER TOLKEIN, WITH DUST JACKET - 1983

Estimate: £250-£300

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Lot 2001

THE OLD ENGLISH EXODUS, TEXT, TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY BY J.R.R. TOLKEIN, EDITED BY JOAN TURVILLE-PETRE, ONE OF ONLY 3000 COPIES, WITH DUST JACKET - 1981
Condition Report:
Overall a very good copy

Estimate: £500-£800

https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auc ... 36-4921-aa68-b46501179381

Lot 160

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, first impression, frontispiece, one plate and 8 illustrations, including 7 full-page, map endpapers printed in red & black, all by the author, short nick to pp.191-193 head, occasional marginal spotting, more so at endpapers, faint finger-soiling to one or two pp., cracking to gutter, overall holding firm, original cloth, slight spotting and toning to spine, some staining to lower board, light bumping and fraying to spine ends, margins slightly darkened, edges foxed, [Hammond A3a], 8vo, 1937.

Estimate: GBP 8,000 - 12,000

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Lot 161

Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., comprising The Fellowship of the Ring, light toning strips to endpapers, one or two minor marginal spots, spine ends fractionally rubbed, 1954; The Two Towers, p.352 slightly creased, cloth joints lightly marked, ink ownership signature and notes to dust-jacket lower panel, 1954; The Return of the King, state with signature mark "4" and aligned text on p.49, dust-jacket without review after The Return of the King on lower flap, light surface-soiling on rear pastedown, a few light marks to covers, some minor nicking to dust-jacket upper panel foot, short tear at spine foot lower joint, 1955, first editions, first impressions, maps at end, original cloth, dust-jackets, spines browned and stained, creasing and chipping to spine ends, a few light spots to front and rear panels, overall very good copies, [Hammond & Anderson A5], 8vo.

Estimate: GBP 8,000 - 12,000

https://www.forumauctions.co.uk/biddin ... vol-first-editions-166982

Lot 162



Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to David Best • 12 May 1967 (#996)
Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to David Best • 18 September 1967 (#997)

Tolkien (J.R.R.).- Best (David) The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and other poems from The Lord of the Rings translated into runes, 4 vol. notebooks bound in 1, manuscript in pencil and ink, 2 Autograph Letters signed from Tolkien thanking Best for sending the translations and praises his work "It seems very correct. I am glad you used the genuine English runes (as in The Hobbit)", May 1967 (folds), Autograph Note signed in a secretarial hand "With best wishes from Professor Tolkien", Autograph Letter signed by Best to Tolkien with Tolkien's translation of a line from the back cover of The Road Goes Ever On in pencil, loosely inserted, maps and illustrations copied from Tolkien's works (some loosely inserted), tape repairs, light soiling and rubbing, original card wrappers bound in, modern cloth-backed boards, manuscript label laid down on upper board, custom pictorial slip-case replicating The Road Goes Ever On cover, [c.1967]; and very good copies of Tolkien's The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, with David Best's ownership signature in English and Elvish, and The Road Goes Ever On, v.s. (small bundle)

***A unique and personal archive of notebooks, illustrations and correspondence relating to J. R. R. Tolkien compiled by David Best, a dedicated fan, in school exercise books as a teenager in the late 1960s.

After reading Tolkien's works, Best became captivated by the tales of fantasy and adventure, in particular with the runes in which the secret message was written on Thorin Oakenshield’s map. He then mastered the elven systems as well as Runes and there are various writings in the notebooks including transcriptions of Tolkien's English poems into runic script, as well as maps at varying scales and illustrations copied by hand. Best sent off these notebooks to Tolkien who wrote back thanking him for his efforts and supplied corrections. Featured on the BBC's The Repair Shop in 2022, the collection was subsequently restored and rebound by Chris Shaw in a bespoke binding and slipcase.

A letter of provenance available upon request.

The Letters were featured on the BBC's Repair Shop - https://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/n ... t_id=46039#forumpost46039

Estimate: GBP 10,000 - 15,000

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20 Hour Anniversary Livestream

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Letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to Jenny Hall • 28 February 1966 (#2927)

Bidding Starts on Wed, 8 Jul 2026 11:00 AM GMT

Lot 52

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)
Typed letter signed ('J.R.R. Tolkien') to Jenny Hall, Hillcrest, Hatfield, 28 February 1966.

Details
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)
Typed letter signed ('J.R.R. Tolkien') to Jenny Hall, Hillcrest, Hatfield, 28 February 1966.
One page, 228 x 177mm, with an autograph insertion of six lines. Envelope. With the retained draft of Jenny Hall's letter to Tolkien. Provenance: from the recipient.

On place names and walking elms: 'Gandalf had asked one or two of them to keep a watch on the Shire...'. A thoughtful and engaging reply to an attentive reader, in which Tolkien addresses the relationship between real and imagined locations in The Lord of the Rings.

‘I have been in most parts of Wales, but the place names I use are made up from English models or borrowed from books, though Crickhollow was actually meant to resemble Crickhowell.

The walking elms were meant to be ents (but not entwives). Gandalf had asked one or two of them to keep a watch on the Shire, but he did not tell anybody about it. As can be gathered from Treebeard's conversations with M[erry] and P[ippin] he knew a lot more about events than they guessed, and more about "hobbits" than he pretended to’.

Tolkien’s imaginative world was fundamentally linguistic in origin, stories were created to bring his invented languages to life. The sound of Welsh, for example, shaped Sindarin, while Old English and Old Norse influenced the cultures of Rohan and the northern kingdoms. Letters of this kind exemplify Tolkien’s generosity to readers during the 1960s, when his growing fame brought an increasing volume of correspondence. Despite the pressures of revision work and the demands of his mounting fame, his replies remain intellectually engaged, offering rare and personal insights into his imaginative world.

Written between 1937 and 1949, The Lord of the Rings was published in three volumes across 1954–55, when Tolkien was a philologist professor at Oxford. The trilogy became an overnight cultural phenomenon. By the time he retired from academia in 1959, the work's immense global success had already transformed him from a private scholar into an international celebrity, thrusting him into a frantic world of fame of whose disruptive effects he not infrequently complained.

Estimate GBP 5-7,000

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