Lord of the Rings
Some fandoms you grow out of. This one doesn’t care. It clings to you, gathers around you from the age of twelve and never really lets go. We’ve seen friends cycle through the books every couple of years. Rewatch the extended cuts on binge weekends. Name their children, or their cats, after characters from the stories they loved when they were young. The passion is infectious and it's intense, and that means that gifts for these enthusiasts require care. Choose something they love and you’ve given someone a trinket that will sit on their shelf or desk and will mean something to them. Choose something they don’t, and you’ll have bought something from the downstairs Giftorama that goes straight into a drawer.
We wanted to avoid that drawer at all costs.
So everything we’ve recommended here has been curated with that kind of fanatic in mind. Not your casual audiences who watched the films once and decided Aragorn was dreamy. We mean the person who can quote Tolkien at you, and know instantly what JD shows changed. Who has opinions on Tom Bombadil. Fans like that deserve more than a chocolate frog from souvenir shop at the stopping off point before the motorway. We wanted gifts that honoThanksr uded that kind of devotion. Delicately crafted things that suit what Tolkien’s world presents itself as; epic. Because Middle Earth is a meticulously constructed place, with its own language, its own history, its own sense of honour and morality. Good gifts for it should feel like they get that.
And let’s be real: there’s occasion to consider. Birthdays, Christmas, house warming, that sort of gift you get for someone who is feeling down but you want to cheer up with something that somehow feels like an inside joke. The right Lord of the Rings gift can do both of those things quietly, and admirably.
That’s why we’ve kept this list brief. We prefer a small selection of wonderful gifts that we would buy ourselves over a huge list filled with junk. And nobody who has ever stood in wonder at Rivendell for the first time deserves junk.