Recently acquired an interesting piece of Hobbit 1987 50th Anniversary ephemera. A slip that you could send in, after purchase of a copy, to have a chance at winning a trip to Disneyland. Never seen this anywhere before. I’m sure Tolkien would’ve loved that 😅

Mr. Underhill wrote:

Recently acquired an interesting piece of Hobbit 1987 50th Anniversary ephemera. A slip that you could send in, after purchase of a copy, to have a chance at winning a trip to Disneyland. Never seen this anywhere before. I’m sure Tolkien would’ve loved that 😅

Looks like the bookseller was in Tasmania, so would have been an expensive prize at the time. Back in those days, Tassie was much more of a backwater than today.

JRRTs dislike of Walt obviously had not reached down under at this point

Nice find Mr. Underhill!

That’s truly amazing to see, Mr Underhill. No, I’ve never seen one of those before. Quite jealous in fact. Great find.