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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 04/08/2025

Was a real pleasure to meet up with @shawnemarchese.bsky.social last week. That coffee shop had no idea the amount of #Tolkien knowledge they had on their hands when the two of us walked in!

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 11/04/2025

New clamshell case came in today commissioned for my 1st edition Foyles Children’s Book Club #Hobbit published in 1942. Really pleased with it. #Tolkien

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 25/03/2025

Today is #TolkienReadingDay! Founded by the @tolkiensociety.org and held on the date the Ring was destroyed. This year's theme is "Fellowship and Community". In celebration, I am giving away a complete set (1-12) of the US Kindle edition of #Tolkien's History of Middle-earth. Rules below ⬇️ 1/3

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 11/03/2025

@westmoot.org paper on collecting #tolkien and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight accepted! See y’all in KC this May!

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 21/02/2025

Life in the Shire goes on, much as it has this past Age. #Tolkien Art by Joe Gilronan

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 06/02/2025

No Entrance, Except on Party Business #Tolkien Artwork by Joe Gilronan

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 30/01/2025

The Fair Folk are leaving these shores #Tolkien #Gildor Art by Joe Gilronan

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 29/01/2025

Shelob & Sam, Book Four of the #LoTR #Tolkien Art by Ted Nasmith

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 26/01/2025

Why We Love #Middle-earth Published by Mango, 2023. Trade Paperback. Signed by the Authors Alan Sisto and Shawn Marchese in return for the help provided with the collecting section. #Tolkien

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 25/01/2025

The Halls of Mandos Artwork by Mariusz Lewandowski #Tolkien

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 24/01/2025

"Glorfindel defiance against the Balrog" From The Fall of Gondolin. #Tolkien Very nice brushwork here! by Breogán Alvarez

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 24/01/2025

I see @johnmoe.bsky.social already had the same thoughts…sorry John didn’t mean to step on any toes.

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 23/01/2025

The #Hobbit, #LordoftheRings, #Silmarillion Taiwan Editions, English language published by Bookcase Shop in 1972, and 1977 respectivly. #Tolkien Part of the collection under The Hill.

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 22/01/2025

Letters of JRR #Tolkien & Tolkien at Exeter College Published by Unwin Hyman 1990, and John Garth 2023. Letters is a first state without the Monogram and Tolkien at Exeter College is signed by John.

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 20/01/2025

The #LordoftheRings & Reader's Companion Boxset published by HarperCollins in 2005. 1st state w/ the 1st Reader's Companion edition by Hammond and Scull. #Tolkien

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 18/01/2025

The Silmarillion #Tolkien German language deluxe edition published 2022.

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 17/01/2025

#Tolkien ‘s Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics & Digressions in Beowulf Published by the Oxford University Press for the British Academy and for the Society for the study of Medieval Languages and Literature respectively. From left to right, 1950 (Digressions),1960,1969, and 1977.

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 17/01/2025

Hervarar Saga ok Heidreks Published by University College London for the Viking Society for Northern Research 1956. Introduction by Christopher #Tolkien 1924-2020 RIP

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 15/01/2025

The Battle of Maldon & The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Published by Methuen 1937 and HarperCollins 2023. Edited by E.V. Gordon(1937) and Peter Grybauskas(2023). #Tolkien

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 15/01/2025

Father Christmas Letters & Poems by JRR #Tolkien Published by HarperCollins in 1993 and 1994 respectively. These are miniature sets of three hardbacks in small slipcases.

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 14/01/2025

#Tolkien ‘s Middle English "Losenger" from 1953. Published by University Of Liege. This Reprints Tolkien’s essay/lecture Middle English "Losenger" from Essais de Philologie Moderne (pictured with it here on the right).

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 13/01/2025

The #Hobbit Published by GA&U in 1984. 1st Print, variant 2 (has the George Allen & Unwin imprint and publishing details as printed and is in an GA&U binding) #Tolkien

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 12/01/2025

Large Print #LordoftheRings Published by ISIS in 1990. Only 1,250 copies printed. #Tolkien

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 10/01/2025

Some #Hobbit photos I stumbled upon from my archives, because…why not? #Tolkien

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 04/01/2025

The Professor! Been working through #Tolkien ‘s Library today on his 133rd birthday.

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 17/12/2024

“The round Moon rolled behind the hill, as the Sun raised up her head. She hardly believed her fiery eyes; For though it was day, to her surprise they all went back to bed!” -The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late #Tolkien #Moon #Austin #Texas

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 04/12/2024

"The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun" was first published 79 years ago today. Here is my copy of The Welsh Review, where it appeared.

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 03/12/2024

Yes, Volsungs was the most challenging one for me to find too.

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 01/12/2024

As the Holiday season gets into full swing. The team at The #Tolkien Collector’s Guide are proud to share with you our Guide to the #FatherChristmas Letters! We hope you enjoy it. www.tolkienguide.com/pages/Father...

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Chad High @mr.underhill.tolkienguide.com · 28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving US friends and all others who celebrate. A good theme for today is the Quenya word Eruhantalë - which translates to "Thanksgiving to Eru". Artwork by David Greset