Barry Stread, a  writer and teacher of graphics and multimedia in London, who collects posthumous first editions and deluxe editions related to Middle-earth and associated reference books on Tolkien. He confesses that he didn’t actually realise being a collector until a few years ago, when he ended up buying a deluxe edition of The Silmarillion as a treat.

Tim Scholz, is a 44 year old German who started out as a Lord of the Rings movie statue collector, but fast turned into an all-round Tolkien collector. He plans to turn his huge collection of over 10K pieces into a small museum. His collection holds movie collectables, art, books and anything he could acquire that a Tolkien feel to it.

Jean Claude Mouret, aka Estelläer, is a 19 year old French musician, and an avid Tolkien collector living in the United States. He mainly focuses on limited editions, first printings and signed books. He tries not to purchase cheaper materials, because he strives to acquire real long-term possessions, and not cheap memorabilia. We can only support that vision!

A young collector of from the Philippines, who mainly focusses on anything Hobbit related, trying to collect different kinds of covers of the book and "The Hobbit" in other mediums such as audio books and has impressive presentation displays to show of his excellent Hobbit collection.

A young collector of from Örebro in Sweden, who mainly focusses on collecting Scandinavian Tolkien translations, with his first priority on Swedish and Norwegian. He will try to collect every one of Tolkien's books translated into Swedish and Norwegian and with a little help from us all he will of course reach his goal!

A young collector of Italian Tolkien books from Milan in Italy. He mainly focusses on collecting books directly related to the Middle-earth history from The Silmarillion and The History of Middle-earth to The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings. He runs the website tolkienbook.blogspot.it where he catalogs his books and shares all his collecting adventures with all the Tolkien readers interested in collecting. We are proud to feature his profile here!

A collector of German and Japanese Tolkien books from Munich in Germany, who can sit in front of the books and enjoy their beauty, especially the designs drawn by Tolkien himself, which have significant Japanese elements in them.

In the future he'll try to buy every Tolkien book translated into Japanese. If it's worth it, I'll consider a serious collecting of the Japanese editions. Now that is something we all look forward to and we wish him all the best! Hope we many will be inspired by this collection and help him in his quest.

A Tolkien and Middle-earth movie merchandise collector from Connecticut in United States, who primarily collects Tolkien books and while she focused mainly on the movies and merchandise from that, in the last few years started to branch out and look and buy items not exclusively from the movie trilogy like books, calendars, games, art,... She sees herself as a beginning collector but we are very proud to show her collection! It surely is a fabulous collection that can inspire many other collectors.

A Tolkien collector from Essex in England, who primarily collects British editions of Tolkien's fiction and almost owns every different UK edition. His goal is probably about 98% complete and so it has now become very difficult to find missing items. He is now focusing on collecting signed Tolkien items.