I thought that I have nothing like that when the thread is started.
"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal" is a motto I can identify myself with, and speaking of purely material "treasures" there is hardly anything I could call like that. However, when I was younger I used to have lots of Middle-Earth collectible game cards (don't confuse with these silly LotR movie cards; the ones I have come from around half of the 90's, they were issued by Iron Crown Enterprises before they went bankrupt). Several years ago (around the time the movies came out) I ceased to care about them much (also for that new editions were not released anymore). Around that time, one of my younger brother's nassty friends stole a pack of them from me - he probably did not even know what it is, I believe he mistook them for
Magic. I don't know which one of his friends it was and the cards are still lost - there were all the Items I had in that pack; all these swords and Hauberks of Bright Mail that I don't care of that much, but also my three Dwarven Rings, Glamdring, Orcrist, Palantír of Orthanc and Palantír of Elostirion and Palantír of Minas Tirith, I believe (?), well and Aiglos, yes... A few years after that, I realized that someone probably stole from me even most of the rest
and I was left only with a few (well... let's say 60 or 70, but most of them were the same) silly Event cards. And all my beautiful Characters, like my fine collection of all the five Fallen-Wizards (fallen Saruman, fallen Radagast, fallen Alatar... even fallen Gandalf, yes, in the game that was possible) were gone.
But since I considered them hopelessly lost, I forgot about them, mostly, only from time to time I complained that I can't look at them. The art was beautiful, the composition of the cards, the pictures... *sigh* And a few days before, once again this feeling came on me. And tonight, I had a very vivid dream, imagining lots of the cards' names and pictures, seeing exactly how they looked like, and in the dream I pitied, oh, how could that be that you'll no longer see that... I precisely remembered how some of the cards looked like, and however odd (or dangerous) this may seem to you, it is fact that it was beautiful when I was collecting them, always opened the pack I bought and saw: "Wow! I have the Witch-King! Wow! I have Isengard!" It's the memories... well, at least you have the memories, I said to myself. No one's gonna steal you them. But it will be nice to have at least a look at them, to hold them - maybe I could find that brother's friend if he still has them, whoever it was, I could find who it was, he probably does not even care for them...
And with these thoughts I awakened to a sunny morning, and lead by an unconscious impulse, I went and opened the bed (we have a bed that you can open and inside there is a space where you can put things into. I used to place old stuff in it). I dug deep and found a large paper box - what's that? I thought - and opened it. And there they were!!! No one stole them (just that first pack, these Items, that's true, they were really stolen) - but silly me put them probably a long time ago in that box and then thought that they were lost! Oh, how happy I was! How happy I am! I have them all now with me. All the five Fallen-Wizards! All the places - Isengard, Moria, Lórien - with beautiful illustrations! Orcs, trolls - Grishnakh, Lugdush, Gorbag, Shagrat!!! Boromir, Wormtongue, Éowyn, Balin, Sam... Smaug... my seven Ringwraiths... I will put them now all in these protective card sleeves... for they... are my precious.