# Tolkien Fans - what are the 'must haves' in terms of his books?

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**Created:** [December 11, 2007, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tolkien-fans-what-are-the-must-haves-in-terms-of-his-books/429635 "2007-12-11T18:11:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 12, 2007, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tolkien-fans-what-are-the-must-haves-in-terms-of-his-books/429635/21 "2007-12-12T11:41:09Z")

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I have everything, and I would say the single edition LOTR and the really nice hardback of the Hobbit. I also add the audio books of both. I never pop the others open at all. [OK, I also have LOTR and Hobbit as ebooks also, from a massive scan and OCR session about 8 years ago…]

I have had LOTR and Hobbit since I was about 8 years old and the peripheral stuff just doesnt interest me. I read them for entertainment, not some deep inner meaning. I dont have the burning need to know why elven sounds the way it does or how it was derived from an odd welsh dialect only spoken on a single small island when combined with old norse. Really, I dont give a crap.

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