The Tolkien Collector
From Tolkien Gateway
The Tolkien Collector is a magazine for J.R.R. Tolkien collectors. The magazine is edited by Christina Scull and Wayne Hammond. It was founded in the Fall of 1992 and is still being printed today though less frequently.
Issue 1
- Introductory issue (provisionally titled J.R.R. Tolkien Collecting and Bibliography Special Interest Group Magazine)
- Notes on bibliographical references for Tolkien
- New books
- Sotheby's auction
- 12 pages
Issue 2
- "Italian Tolkien Criticism" by Patricia Reynolds; "A Midwest Tolkien Tour" by Sumner Gary Hunnewell
Issue 3
- "A Collector's Tale" by Sumner Gary Hunnewell; "Dutch Tolkien Illustrators" by René van Rossenberg; "The Ballantine Hobbit" by Richard E. Blackwelder
Issue 4
- "The Dutch One-Volume Lord of the Rings" by Christina Scull and Patrick Vandenhole; "Tolkien in Bulgaria" by Christina Scull
Issue 5
- "Fair Dealing" by Wayne G. Hammond; "Tolkien and Linguaphone" by René van Rossenberg; "Works by and about Tolkien in Czech and Slovak" by Karel Makovsky
Issue 6
- "The Silmarillion in Russian" by Christina Scull; "A Corrigenda to The Lord of the Rings" by David Bratman (published March 1994)
Issue 7
- "The J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar 1994" by Wayne G. Hammond; "The Lord of the Rings in Japanese" by Christina Scull; "A Dutch Stephen Oliver" by René van Rossenberg
Issue 8
- "Where's Tolkien?" by Wayne G. Hammond; "The Revised German Translation of The Lord of the Rings" by "SST"; "Farmer Giles of Ham, Smith of Wootton Major, and Mr. Bliss in Japan" by Christina Scull
Issue 9
- "Translating Tolkien into Hebrew" by Yuval Kfir
Issue 10
- "Too Many Books -- and Never Enough" by Wayne G. Hammond
Issue 11
- "Ake Ohlmarks, Swedish Translator" by Johan Soderberg
Issue 12
- "The 1996 J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar" by Christina Scull; "Dutch Editions of Tolkien's Works" by Johan Vanhecke
Issue 13
- "When the Collecting has to Stop!" by Christina Scull
Issue 14
- All-news issue; no feature article
Issue 15
- "Signatures, Labels, and Values" by Christina Scull; "Corrigenda to J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator" by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
Issue 16
- "Tolkien Dissertations and Theses in English" by Daniel Timmons
Issue 17
- "J.R.R. Tolkien in France" by Jean-Marc Bouilly
Issue 18
- "Tolkien Boom in Poland" by Agniesczka Sylwanowicz; "Caring for Your Tolkien Collection" by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond
Issue 19
- All-news issue, abbreviated (12 pp.); no feature article
Issue 20
- "Identifying First Edition Printings of the Houghton Mifflin Lord of the Rings, Part I" by Steven M. Frisby
Issue 21
- "Identifying First Edition Printings of the Houghton Mifflin Lord of the Rings, Part II" by Steven M. Frisby; "The Tolkien Collector and the Internet" by Wayne G. Hammond
Issue 22
- "Identifying First Edition Printings of the Houghton Mifflin Lord of the Rings, Part III" by Steven M. Frisby
Issue 23
- "Sophisticated Tolkien, or The Integrity of the Book" by Christina Scull
Issue 24
- "Is the Internet Collectible?" by Christina Scull
Issue 25
- All-news issue; no feature article
Issue 26
- All-news issue; no feature article
Issue 27
- News; "A Mad Hobby" by "Garm"
Issue 28
- All-news issue (especially with books about Tolkien and new translations of The Lord of the Rings; no feature article
Issue 29
- All-news issue; no feature article
Issue 30
- "Identifying First and Second Edition Printings of the Houghton Mifflin Hobbit" by Steven M. Frisby
Issue 31
- "The 'Father Christmas' Letters" by Christina Scull
Issue 32
- "A Tolkien Classification System" by David Bratman; published in December 2011