There is more to Tolkien collecting than you might think. The obvious area is books, and there are lots of publications, articles and websites exploring that. However, there is a surprisingly large and complex world of other Tolkien areas to collect, and once you become hooked, you will find that it is normally a lot more complex and larger than you could imagine. You are now drawn into the area, and it becomes obsessive, the desire for completeness draws you in more and more, until your collection … is “my precious”.
To illustrate this, let’s have a brief delve into the “small” area of Tolkien Stamps. At its basic level, Tolkien stamps is quite small. There have been officially* only 11 sets of stamps published in various countries around the world and a further 3 individual Tolkien related stamps within other, not Tolkien specific, sets.…