Love seeing all these. The ribbon inscription is beautiful and makes me now want a Tolkien book with elvish on a nice large ribbon. Don't know that I'd be comfortable with saving my place with the Ring verse inscription though. I also really love the illustration of the Fellowship at Balin's tomb on the Russian edition. Thanks all for sharing!

Here are my copies of The Lord of the Rings 🧙‍♂️

Mod edit - We don't want to ban you again, but this thread is clearly for posting images of The Fellowship of the Ring not Tolkien books in general, you are welcome to upload images of those.

We of course like seeing any Tolkien book Jeff, but this thread was really about celebrating the 70th anniversary of Fellowship of the Ring. You should’ve just shown that one really instead of everything else. But it’s ok 👍🏻

Apologies: I was posting images that had my copies of LotR in them - but I can understand wanting images of ONLY Lord of the Rings: sorry about that! 🤗

I suppose I have two favourite copies of The Fellowship of the Ring. They also have no monetary value. In 1965 (it must have been) I wrote to the USA through "Exchange and Mart" to order a copy of the Ace books. Fellowship nearly fell apart because of the many times I read it. Then in 1969, I used the money from my Saturday job to begin to buy the hardbacks - one a month. I still have these two books and you can see how many, many times they were read.

Of course I have much better collectable versions of these books but I still think that these two covers are, for me the most iconic.

These two editions are favourites of mine.

The one on the right is the 1980 German hardback edition I got for Christmas from my parents back in that year – I did not like the popular green cover paperback edition, so I decided I wanted these.

The one on the left is the 1979 Unwin Paperback Third Edition, which I got a little later, when I decided that I needed to read the books in English, after I was dismayed to discover that Appendix E about the languages had been mostly cut from the German edition ("for reasons") – I was already a language nerd at age 14. These books, along with the matching Hobbit and Silmarillion editions, while not fancy in any way, really have a special place in my heart. They were really my first gateway to Tolkien in English.

First edition I owned, back in the early ‘80s.

Not my favourite, but my most recently acquired (last week). Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh signed copy. Slipcase is normal one (just is upside down in the picture so the sigil is on the other side). Bought purely because cheap and local, but coincidentally arrived in the post on the 70th anniversary of publication of Fellowship

My very first Tolkien book: the one which started it all. Ballantine 3rd printing November 1965, with the upside-down Ring inscription.
And - the one without which the Ballantine would not exist (not my copy).

Here's the edition that I first bought with my own money from my first job. Prior to that I had been reading my parents's first edition (later impression) hardcovers, which sadly meant I managed to destroy the jackets completely! I still feel bad about that.

And I still laugh at the Michael Herring artwork on these editions, but that's what was in print and thus at the bookstore on the way home from work on my bike.