Those disappearing Lords of the Ringses...

[ladyofastolat]

Um... *looks sheepish* I found my hardback LotR. It was... er... next to my computer, where I now remember taking it a few weeks ago for reference while writing something. Pellinor has admitted that perhaps his old single volume copy never made it out of his parents' house. So it seems as if we're just a two Lord of the Rings household, after all, and that both copies are accounted for. Either that, or the person who stole our other copies has given us false memories to cover his tracks.

It occurs to me that most normal people would probably think that having two copies of The Lord of the Rings is a bit excessive. However, I am confident that, compared with many people reading this, we class as total lightweights.



(Interpret "own" in a way that works for you - e.g. whether you want to count copies in your house that are technically owned by someone else but are now shared, or if you want to count copies that you would claim as your own, but aren't currently living with you.)

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Comments

[king-pellinor.livejournal.com]

My old single-volume one didn't make it out of my parents' house, but that's partly because half of it was missing anyway.

I did buy a new second-hand one in Oxford, but I think you got rid of it a few years ago on the grounds that yours was nicer. I only managed to persuade you to keep the 3 volume set on the grounds it was easier to read than your big hardback.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I prefer reading small paperbacks to a large hardback. I do remember running out of space in the fantasy bookcase in my room, and removing some books from it and asking you if you could fit them in the bookcases in your room (since you don't mind double-stacking, and I have my librarian neat freak thing going.) I remember you misunderstanding this and saying that I wanted to get rid of them completely. Perhaps this is what happened with your three volume set?