10 Books A Day: #147

Tolkien Quest: Night Of The Nazgul...John David Ruemmler...Berkley Books
The Tolkien Quiz Book...Bart Andrews...Signet

The Tolkien Quiz Book...Andrew Murray...Harper Collins

Bored Of The Rings...Henry N. Beard & Douglas C. Kenney of The Harvard Lampoon...Signet

Bored Of The Rings...Henry N. beard & Douglas C. Kenney of The Harvard Lampoon...Signet

Bored Of The Rings...Henry N. Beard & Douglas C. Kenney of The Harvard Lampoon...Roc
The Sellamillion..."A. R. R. R. Roberts" (Adam Roberts)...Gollancz
Tales Before Tolkien...ed. Douglas A. Anderson...Del Rey

A Hobbit's Travels...Michael Green...Running Press

A Hobbit's Journal...Michael Green...Running Press

A Walk Through The Shire...Michael Green...Running Press

Final Witness...Simon Tolkien...Random House

Today's books have very tenuous (if obvious) connections indeed to Tolkien's "legendarium." Quiz books, a which-way adventure, parodies, blank journals decorated with art marginalia. If The Tolkien Fan's Medieval Reader is a look at the professor's roots in older myth and literature, Tales Before Tolkien is a reader in "modern fantasy," showing stories that came before him and that he acknowledged were influences or favorites. Final Witness is a legal crime story by one of JRRT's grandsons, and has nothing to do with LOTR at all; I got it as a curiosity (to me; I am no fan or judge of this particular genre) and keep it in my Tolkien collection as such.

Book Count: 1747.