Budget Xmas Gift Ideas – 3 Great Calendars
2010 Calendars for Fans of Beryl Cook, JR Tolkien and Train Travel
Oct 20, 2009
Calendars make really useful Xmas gifts, especially now that people are being more careful with their spending. Everyone needs a calendar and a diary, and it looks like the variety available will certainly meet every taste. 3 great wall calendars have been selected here, representing completely different interests.
Lord of the Rings Calendar
The Tolkien 2010 calendar features 16 beautifully illustrated fantasy scenes. The artist, Canadian Ted Nasmith is well-known to Tolkien fans for his evocative scenes and the 2010 calendar features work depicting scenes from the Third Age of Middle-earth. The centre fold out picture of The Pillars of the Kings is bound to be a favourite.
J.R. Tolkien famously wrote The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and a complex and imaginative history of the Elves and of the Silmarils. These were magical jewels which were stolen by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. The tales of battles between good and evil, forces of light and dark and the conflict with Sauron in The Lord of the Rings have enchanted readers for more than half a century.
The stories are filled with invented languages, poems and imagined landscapes, all of which contributed towards the success of the trilogy of films based on the Lord of the Rings.
The Tolkien calendar is produced by HarperCollins and costs £9.99 / US$16.30. It is available to order online and would make a great gift for any Tolkien fan.
2010 Calendar for Him
Railway enthusiasts and Anglophiles will love this England By Rail calendar. Its 12 poster-style illustrations are painted by Norman Wilkinson and show scenes of castles, countryside, rivers and mountains. A rare train appears in one or two illustrations but one can imagine theses posters enticing people to travel across the country in bygone days. The calendar has space to write in squares for each day, with a month to a page.
2010 Calendar for Her
Finding a Christmas gift for the woman who has everything can be challenging. Beryl Cook always brings a smile, and this Gallery 5 wall calendar has a variety of amusing pictures. There is the grey-haired tennis party, large ladies at the hairdressers and the moon-faced children watching the cat as she does her morning wash. All 12 pictures are delightful and the calendar would make a fun gift for any woman.
Both these calendars are sold by The British Heart Foundation, which helps them raise money too. Heart and circulatory disease is the UK’s biggest killer. Around 90,000 people die of a heart attack in Britain each year. That means every 6 minutes someone is dying of a heart attack. The money raised by The British heart Foundation goes towards research and health initiatives that help save lives.
Both calendars are 11.8 x 23.6 inches / 30 x 60 cms when open and cost £9.99 / US$16.30. They can be ordered online.
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