# LOTR volume wanted - does it even exist? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 6, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-volume-wanted-does-it-even-exist/347281 "2006-03-06T19:33:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-volume-wanted-does-it-even-exist/347281/21 "2006-03-07T19:10:34Z")
Wow - that would be quite a project. But I’d love to see it when it’s done! Slightly off-topic: I’d highly recommend you get _The Annotated Hobbit_, which has a lot of very useful info and derivations of virtually every character, place, riddle, etc. in the book, as well as examples of foreign illustrations (some excellent, some horrible). Definitely worth a look. ---
**Author:** ![Calion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@Calion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calion)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-volume-wanted-does-it-even-exist/347281/22 "2011-02-28T03:08:52Z")
[It’s been done](http://www.indyprops.com/pp-rb.htm). Wow. Unfortunately it’s not for sale. But still…wow. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-volume-wanted-does-it-even-exist/347281/23 "2011-02-28T03:26:51Z")
It hasn’t been done, at least not there. At only 300 pages, and with that little on each page, it can’t be anything more than excerpts. Full-length, that sucker’d be _huge_. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-volume-wanted-does-it-even-exist/347281/24 "2011-02-28T03:40:28Z")
> [@Calion](#): > > [It’s been done](http://www.indyprops.com/pp-rb.htm). Wow. Unfortunately it’s not for sale. > > But still…wow. > [@Chronos](#): > > It hasn’t been done, at least not there. At only 300 pages, and with that little on each page, it can’t be anything more than excerpts. Full-length, that sucker’d be _huge_. Pity they don’t expand it to 8 volumes. There and Back Again, Books I to VI and the Appendix. They could go smaller on the font of course then what they showed. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-volume-wanted-does-it-even-exist/347281/25 "2011-02-28T04:25:33Z")
I’d love to work on a project like that but I’d need someone else to do the pages themselves. I’m not much of a calligrapher and I think that might take more patience than I have. I’d bind it, though, in a shot – that bit I can do. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-volume-wanted-does-it-even-exist/347281/26 "2011-02-28T12:25:28Z")
The closest thing you’ll find that’s affordable (aside from the red-bound LOTR in the second post) is the Dover edition of William Morris’ **The Wood Beyond the World** : > **[The Wood Beyond the World: Morris, William: 9780486227917: Amazon.com: Books](https://www.amazon.com/Wood-Beyond-World-William-Morris/dp/048622791X)** > > The Wood Beyond the World \[Morris, William\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. The Wood Beyond the World It’s a fantasy novel that some think a big influence on Tolkien. Morris thought that such works should be presented in such a way as to be consistent with the contents – a craftsmanlike product with neatly calligraphied pages that celebrated the virtues of the craftsman, and so he set up a press to make such books. Unfortunately, such a product tends to be too expensive for the craftsmen themselves to be able to afford it, so I was lucky that a soulless megacorporation decided to reprint the book – calligraphy and all – in an inexpensive edition so a shlub like me could afford it. I find that the nifty lettering looks cool and all, but isn’t my preferred style – the usual typefaces seem easier to read, or more familiar. But this is where you can get a fantasy novel i the sort of typeface you’re looking for. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lotr-volume-wanted-does-it-even-exist/347281.md?page=1)