Tolkien Visual Collecting Guide: Trading Cards

This guide does not include Card Games, Postcards, larger art prints, stationary/greetings cards or stickers (although some cards are combined with some stickers, these are mentioned here).

I'm not going to list or show pictures of every card within the sets, there are specific websites which do this (I will try to link to some of the best of these within this guide).

This searchable site has great card details

http://www.tradingcarddb.com

This site has great lists of cards

http://www.nslists.com/movietv.htm#lotr

Hobbit cards

David Wenzel

Shows images from the corresponding graphic novel

Comes as a full boxed set (36 cards, sample shown)

Hildebrandt cards

See Musing for more details

Comic Images

http://www.nslists.com/hildbros.htm

Wizard Gandalf Sub Set: 9, 16, 23, 38, 48, 75

Mysterious Towers: 32, 43, 57, 70, 88

3, 22, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 39, 47, 50, 53, 56, 64, 73, 80, 83, 84, 85, 89

Comic Images Chase Set

1994

includes 3 Tolkien images

Tolkien Art Preview Set

http://www.nslists.com/hildprev.htm

Boxed

Limited Edition

6 cards

Tolkien Art Bonus Set

Limited Edition 1000

Signed

2 cards

The Best Comic Images

Chromium

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?652049

https://www.nslists.com/hildbest.htm

2, 5, 7, 18, 31, 36, 43, 46, 51, 59, 62, 75, 83

MagnaChrome Chase Subset

1 card in set of 3

MagnaChrome Chase Subset

Keepsake Collection

6 cards, plus mini press sheet

Mike Ploog cards

See Musing for more details

FPG Cards

Chris Achilleos cards

See Musing for more details

FPG Fantasy Art Series 1

FPG Achilleos Colossal Cards Series

2 cards with Tolkien images.
packaging features Tolkien image.

Michael Kaluta cards

See Musing for more details

Kaluta Series 1

Kaluta Series 2

1 Tolkien card only

Darrell Sweet cards

See Darrell Sweet for more details

Darrell Sweet Set

Oversized Promo Card

Colossal Cards - Series 1

Large size 6.5x10”

2 cards feature Tolkien Sweet Images

Michael Whelan cards

Adventures in Fantasy Series 1

1 Tolkien card only

Frank Frazzeta

Comic Images Series 1991

1 Tolkien card only #71

Best Off Series 1994

1 Tolkien card only #6

Gold Collectors cards

Danbury mint

Limited edition

Sold 2 at a time by subscription (24 cards)

Topps Collectors Movie cards

Lord of the Rings movies

Mainly sold in blind packs. This is a huge series with a wide veritably of cards including autograph, material, art, promo etc.

This trading card site has very good details of the cards

Fellowship movie

Original (2001), update (2002)

binders

sample card

Two Towers movie

Original (2002), update (2003)

binders

sample card

Return of the King movie

Original (2003), update (2004)

binders

sample card

limited edition set

2000

20 cards

limited edition trilogy set

2000

60 cards (20 each movie)

Trilogy (2004)

sample card

Evolution

http://www.lotrsketchcards.com/evolution/index.html

Original (2006), A (2006), B (2006), Stained Glass (2006)

sample card

stained glass set

Masterpieces

http://www.lotrsketchcards.com/masterpieces/index.html

I (2006), II (2008)

sample cards

masterpieces I silver foil set

masterpieces II silver foil set

etched foil set

sample sketch cards

Autograph cards

http://www.cardboardconnection.com/lord-of-the-rings-trading-card-autographs-guide

sample cards

Memorabilia cards

Promo Cards

There are a lot of other individual and other promotional cards, specific examples include:

Australian Cadbury Promo sets

UK Cadbury Promo set

Video 2000 Promo set

Japanese Versions

These are the same cards but printed and published by Hobby Japan

there were also some alternative albums

Magazines

Non-Sports Update

Vol 12 No 6

Vol 14 No 6

Cryptozoic Collectors cards

Hobbit movies

Mainly sold in blind packs. This is a huge series with a wide veritably of cards including autograph, material, art, promo etc.

Unexpected Journey

https://www.cryptozoic.com/trading-cards/hobbit-unexpected-journey-trading-cards

binder

sample cards (base, foil, 3D lenticular, auto, art, large dual auto).

Desolation of Smaug

https://www.cryptozoic.com/trading-cards/hobbit-desolation-smaug-trading-cards

binder

sample cards (base, character chase, laketown chase, Smaug chase, 3D lenticular poster, dwarfs, poster auto, illustration auto, art, large triple auto).