bombadil wrote:Anybody know how rare this item is? Where it was produced, approximate print run, anything?
It appeared on ebay not long ago, but was the first I had ever seen of it. There were so many of these, mostly underground banned publications, that it's impossible to keep track.
All in all they form a good argument against intellectual property as we know it: what eventually became a gold mine for Tolkien's heirs required a decade of unlicensed product to get the ball rolling.
Imagine if something equivalent to the 'Report sellers who infringe copyrights!' thread had existed to effectively stomp it out. Our entire hobby would have been an abortion.
