Wish Fulfillment: Five Years of the Wish List (Fantasy)

It might be stretching a point to call all of these Fantasy (I would particularly instance Mickelsson's Ghosts), but eh. 

Wish Fulfillment: Five Years of the Wish List (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett)

I suppose Gaiman and Pratchett will always be double-billed, just like Tolkien and Lewis or Chesterton and Belloc. Terry Pratchett has been dead for years now, but his heirs and assigns have proven quite adept at collecting 'new' found material to publish, as well as art inspired by his work. Neil Gaiman seems to have slowed his output quite a bit, no doubt connected with his busy television work and ... other considerations.

Wish Fulfillment: Five Years of the Wish List (C S. Lewis and Other Inklings)

Okay, technically G. K. Chesterton and Dorothy L. Sayers were not Inklings, but I tend to think of them in the same category. Perhaps because they are among the 'Sacred Seven' that Wheaton College have made their particular study. Barfield and Williams were Inklings, of course. Joy Davidman was Lewis's wife. In general, I'm judging the Wish List acquisitions by what I got after the main Archive entries were recorded. I don't know exactly why I feel compelled to do this sort of thing; somehow it fascinates me.

Unfulfilled Wishes: Five Years of the Wishlist (Tolkien and the Inklings)

No sooner had I thought about what I didn't get from the Wish List, that I felt compelled to go back and look into that. I was especially interested in what Tolkien-related tomes I hadn't bought. It was a vanishingly small number compared to what I did get, usually because of rarity (The Old English Exodus), price (those deluxe editions), or attenuated subject matter (did I really need another book about Christianity and the Tolkien mythos?). That one Hobbit book is a reproduction of the First Edition. Could I justify the expense when I basically had the edited material in The Annotated Hobbit? To plump out the post I've included material by and about the Inklings, mainly C. S. Lewis and Owen Barfield. But if I ever unexpectedly become fabulously wealthy, you can bet I'd get every item here.