Who collected LotR figures?

[Lindale]

Oh my, this may reduce me to tears... during sixth grade (when the first movie came out), I saved and saved to get a Frodo. All I could afford at the time--student on a meager allowance, see. I kept it for ages, until my first year in college, where I lived in a dorm... evil dormmates, to make it short, knew of my Tolkien obsession, and...