oh horrors

[just_jenni]

I can't find my copy of The Silmarillion!

The most important book in the world and I can't find it anywhere.  I need to write a story about Celegorm and Luthien but have to do some research first, and I cannot have lost my Sil!   I've looked everywhere in this house for it.

I've had that book for at least 10 years, which is not as long as I've

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[lindahoyland]

I do hope it turns up.

[just_jenni]

I found it! When I went down to the basement to gather things for the charity pickup tomorrow, it was in a laundry basket full of books and papers that my husband had taken downstairs!

[lindahoyland]

I'm so glad you found it!

[just_jenni]

Thanks! I'm so relieved.

[curiouswombat]

it is weird the way things just disappear like that.

Buying a new copy should tempt it back though - I find it usually does!

[just_jenni]

That's what I was thinking also.

Fortunately, I found it where my husband had moved it!

[kiwirazzi]

Ugh, that SUCKS that you've lost The Silmarillion!

When I moved to Berlin, I'd pack up all my books as well, bar two novels by Hemingway. I could've sworn I had put them in the boxes, alas, they were nowhere to be found. So I went and re-bought them.

Fast forward to some months later and Yours Truly visiting the fam ... sure enough, I found back those two books at my old place there in Wilderness. Are you fucking kidding me, books?? Where you'd been hiding??

Meanwhile, when I moved to my new flat two years ago, the guys who helped with the move happily threw away (!!) books - books I could've sold on eBay or might have still needed. And they also threw away that one backpack I had once won online, and it's not I was emotionally attached to that one or something, or that it was kinda unique.

[just_jenni]

It's really strange how these things happen. But I found the book last night! My husband had picked it up with some other books and stuff and taken it to the basement in a laundry basket!

I'm sorry you lost your books and special backpack because of someone else! The same thing almost happened to me too!