“Get over here!” just doesn’t do this image justice.

"Come here!"

Whenever I get fancy bookends, I struggle to decide what goes between them.  Do I take the Sword of Truth series from the shelf?  The Star Trek hardcovers?  Shannara?  Deathstalker?  Graphic novels or RPG manuals?  The list goes on.  I figure my Tolkien collection deserves a special spot, but why stop with just one copy?  You can tell I love these works by the state of the books.  In that stack shown above, are the paperbacks my father handed down to me when I was just eight – I’ve read them every summer since.  The only ones missing are my collection of Tolkien’s letters and his translation of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” – which is on a different shelf, dedicated to medieval poetry.

I’ll admit, I have yet to read “The Return of the Shadow” or “The Treason of Isengard” — the summer is young yet.

-SnowytheGeek

*Bonus points if you identified the Lego minifig as Raistlin Majere, after he switched to the black.