WHAT'S NEW ON THIS SITE? RARITY SCALE THE Calendar! CALENDAR OF THE MONTH for MAY! CHRONOLOGICAL LISTS 1969 - 1977 1978 - 1980 1981 - 1984 1985 - 1988 1989 - 1992 1993 - 1995 1996 - 1998 1999 - 2001 2002 - 2004 2005 - 2006 2007 2008 COUNTRY/SOCIETY LISTS AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND BEYOND BREE CANADA COLIN WILLIAMS CZECH ELDALIE FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY HOLLIN DESIGNS ITALY ME FELLOWSHIP NETHERLANDS POLAND SHIRE POST SPAIN TOLKIENDIL TOLKIEN'S RING

After many years of collecting Tolkien calendars and encouragement from several other collectors, I have put together this website. I had the name made up before I ever started typing this text. So it is a bit presumptuous to call it a complete guide. However, I do encourage comments and additions from visitors and other collectors in the hope that it will become so. Especially, you will note many "variant" calendars throughout the list: different versions of the same calendar (changes in format, language, etc.) Would love to hear from you if you know of or have such calendars. Please email me! "THANK YOU!" to many people without whom this website would not have gotten to where it is: Jan Boom (aka - Fangorn) who humors my obsession and without whom I would never have acquired many of these; Joe Kraemer (my best Tolkien-calendar-collecting buddy); Gary Hunnewell (aka - Hildifons Took) for adding to the list and sending photos of some rarities; Sherry Pennington for adding to the list and sending photos of those calendars; Nancy Martsch at Beyond Bree for her suggestions and contacts (and calendar compilation) and the calendars that she has most generously donated. I am very much in her debt for doing so; Tim Kirk for graciously providing a copy of his 1969 calendar (You can't be first, but you can be next ... except for that 1969!); Vaclav Satava (of the Czech Tolkien Society) who generously sent six of the Czech calendars; Laura Cooper (aka - Laithaine) for support above any reasonable requests I made and beyond my wildest hopes to collect the Hollin Designs calendars; Michael from whose Tolkien Boardgames Collecting website I borrowed the idea of a RARITY SCALE. (If you like this site, you should also like his!); Vee for sending the "2005 Discover England's Two Towers" calendar; Miikka Uotila of the Finnish Tolkien Society for making certain that I have all of their issues and informing their membership of this site; Mundee Baggins and Mayor Whitfoot for sending the ShirePost calendars; Dan Smith for contacting me, information on the Middle-earth Fellowship, and the three Middle-earth Fellowship calendars; elfy for helping me find and collect issues from Poland; Stormrider of Tolkien's Ring for her knowledge of that group and her support; Kristi Rowell for parting with the 2003 Tolkien's Ring calendar (and her drawing of Old Man Willow); Varnafindė for her translation of the 1984 Arthedain calendar; Colin Williams for a complete collection of his calendars!. Special thanks to Bridget and Dominic Welsh who parted with THE Calendar. It is the jewel of my collection. One note: I am not a collector of the Lord of the Rings movie-related calendars (with a few exceptions.) There was an excellent compilation by Sean at collecttolkien.com. Jeremy has made a first attempt at rebuilding that list on his Tolkien Collector's Guide website. Last update: 3 May 2008 When you note a change in the date of the last update, check out WHAT'S NEW ON THIS SITE? As of this date, there are 277 calendars listed here. While some are variants of one another (same illustrations but different publisher, language, ISBN, etc), there are many rare ones (and in one case, unique) catalogued here. v4.2 : 20 Apr 2007