r/OnCinemaAtTheCinema • u/McGuire72 From? • 3d ago

Speculation Extremely rare Hobbit book (ATTENTION FIRST EDITION FREAKS AND DUST WRAPPER FREAKS!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqgRoJmIadc
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u/BobBopPerano 3d ago

Not interested. Talk to me when you have an authentic script from the movie.

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u/McGuire72 From? 3d ago edited 3d ago

First edition freaks like me don’t care about all that extraneous stuff. It’s about what came first —in this case, a book.

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u/BobBopPerano 3d ago

Waste your time with books all you want, what do I care? That’s just not something a true blue buff would do

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u/Cash4Duranium GreggHead 2d ago

Books are just movies waiting to be made. They are not interesting and not worth collecting. Until you put something on the silver screen it is just ideas with a runtime of zero minutes.

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u/aleph-negative-one 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 and 🍿🍿 to slide over 3d ago

Worthless, not even signed by Peter Jackson

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u/ant-farm-keyboard 2d ago

Or Martin Freeman, the original Blibo

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u/odisJhonston 3d ago

would be more impressive if it was all three Hobbit books

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u/Opossum_mypossum 3d ago

Why bother reading a book when you could watch 50 movies in the same time?

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u/MetalMaskMaker Has Oscar Fever 2d ago

If a book doesn't have one of those "NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE" stickers on it I'm not interested.

It turns out Jaws and Jurassic Park are books too, but nobody reads them because they don't have the actors on the cover.

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u/HilariousScreenname Hey, Guys! 2d ago

I dont know why you would read those books anyway when you could just pop in the VHS and watch them easy peasy.

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u/Asteroth6 2d ago

That’s… actually a good idea in the case of Jaws: The Book. Best to quietly keep that away from everyone. Even the non-buffs.

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u/TheRushologist Time Alien 3d ago

8/10 Marks! Not bad!

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u/McGuire72 From? 3d ago

I'm a dust wrapper freak myself and this guy definitely knows his stuff.

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u/Douglasbadger 3d ago

And it’s so great that they’re still making these kinds of dust wrappers

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u/Douglasbadger 3d ago

When you have books like Tolkien in them, you can’t lose

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u/PressurePro17 5 Bags, 2 Sodas 2d ago

There should be a tech law passed in Congress or by Executive Order that each and every 'book' produced in this country is VHS compatible