The 2004 Royal Mail issue related to the Lord of the Rings marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of the first books in the series. Consequently they focussed on the books and showed the author'sdrawings illustrating locations in the books. This set, incidentally, was one of many consisting of 10 x 1st class.
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| 2004 set of 10 x 1st class Lord of the Rings stamps. |
Now, it's 25 years since The Fellowshop of the Ring hit a screen near you bringing New Zealand director Peter Jackson to our notice - not his first film, but the series which has featured most on stamps, notably those of New Zealand.
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| Selection of New Zealand Lord of the Rings stamps depicting Frodo, Gandalf, Aragon and Legolas. |
New Zealand Post has issued several sets of LOTR stamps. How will Royal Mail's stamps compare? Time will tell, and they will be revealed around 11 March.
(Incidentally, in each of NZ Post's LOTR issues they had six gummed stamps, the same six stamps in individual miniature sheets, the same six stamps in a single self-adhesive miniature sheet, and a self-adhesive folded booklet containing four of the lowest value, two of one other, and one each of the rest. There are also official maximum cards which had a stamp stuck to the picture side and postmarked, and also printed in black & white on the address side; the cards are thus prepaid for posting to anywhere in the world.)
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