Fantastic to see all this.

Fantastic collection of ephemeras Urulókë ! Well worth the purchase, congratulations!

I absolutely love stuff like this, and how portions of promo items can re-appear elsewhere.

Example: deluxe Silmarillion illustrated by the author features ‘The Silmarillion and its Making’ which was also done for promo purposes.

Wow. Just wow.

And thank you for such an informative write-up.

Very cool stuff, Urulókë, thanks for sharing!

I have one of the various 50th anniversary bookmark designs myself, but Steve Hopkins on Facebook kindly gave me permission to share the three designs he has in his collection here. Maybe Mr. Underhill can share the other design in your collection as well? The samples barely visible in the promo photo at the top of this thread clearly have differences from these three as well, so maybe there's a fifth design out there somewhere?

👍🏻

Part of me regrets not pulling the trigger, but I'm thinking this belongs in your collection (or Onthetrail's). Congratulations and thanks for the investigative work and write-up.

northman wrote:

Part of me regrets not pulling the trigger, but I'm thinking this belongs in your collection (or Onthetrail's). Congratulations and thanks for the investigative work and write-up.

My sentiments too Northman. I don't buy anything collectable nowadays but had I been paying more attention when this came up I would have been in for this one. And if anyone here had bought it I would have been very pleased, but Urulókë nabbing this one has a certain sense of 'right' about it. It's a special collection of items so it ending up with Uruloke seems the right outcome to me. And of course these items enrich the Guide.

Every now and then, everybody wins, this being one of those times.

What an incredible find!! Congratulations