Springlering on eBay

We have completed nearly 11,000 buy/sell transactions on Ebay under various IDs since April 1997. During these eleven years, we have had a grand total of 9 negatives and six neutrals. Six of these were from nonpaying bidders. You may verify this information here.

We provide this information only as a reference, so you'll know who you're buying from.  We no longer use Ebay because, frankly, the site has become schizophrenic.

www.katieburnsthings.com

My teenage daughter Katie's website:  part school portfolio, part crazy fun, with a good dose of her band photos thrown in. Yes, she IS brilliant.

Great Big Sea

Great Big Sea is the best band you've probably never heard of. Darn Canadians, you want to keep 'em all to yourselves, don't you?!    

GBS does a unique mixture of can't-stay-in-your-seat original music, and updated versions of traditional tunes from their rich Newfoundland musical heritage.  There's a reason every single one of their albums have gone gold,and why fans (including us!) breathlessly await tour dates.

Sample their albums here. 

Concert Photo of Sean McCann, courtesy of my daughter, Katie Burnett.

Daniel Reeve

Site & Shop for Daniel Reeve, Official Calligrapher and Cartographer for The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy.  Daniel is responsible for much of the "look" of the material that we collect.

Informative blog by Kristin Thompson, author of The Frodo Franchise , currently available on Amazon.  Kristin studied the marketing of the movies throughout the production and releases, and has written a most interesting book about it all.

Marvelous website by Australian artist Anne Pickersgill, featuring her beautiful oil, pastel, and pencil portraits of Frodo, Sam, and others, as well as photos of her handmade Frodo dolls (not for sale, sadly), including Elijah Wood holding the Frodo she made for him.

Be sure to take a moment to look at the photos of her incredible garden, too. There's no doubt, this lady is part Hobbit.

Tolkien Collector's Guide

The Tolkien Collector's Guide, home of Rown's Books.  Jeremy Edmonds is a noted collector of Tolkieana. Resources for collectors, from first editions up to current items.

Dave Ramsey Total Money Makeover

Totally on a personal note, and comletely unrelated to Tolkiena (other than those of you running up your credit cards in the pursuit of) this man's advise works.

Popular national radio host Dave Ramsey will teach you to live within your means. His goal is for you to live your life debt free, without credit cards, or, in his words, to "live like no one else, so you can live like no one else". He will not try to sell you stocks, bonds, or multi-level marketing schemes. He will preach at you, gently (or sometimes not), and what he says make sense.

Click Listen Live  from 3-7 pm eastern on WGST Atlanta.  Um, apologies in advance. Great radio station, juvenile webpage.