Ideally, it should have been possible to purchase individual copies of
TT and RK, but while it was easy to find sellers with
TT, no one was selling
RK and no one was selling the full set of three. Toward the end of the year, Zinaida Biro, an on-line book seller of Narta, offered a full set on Njuškalo. I immediately contacted her to see if she would sell them to me. (It is often necessary on these European sites to contact the seller directly by email because the sites themselves do not always accept international financial transactions or ship internationally.) She was a little suspicious of my interest in the books at first so she asked me to send her a photo of my collection to prove that I was, indeed, a Tolkien collector. I did and we struck up an email exchange during which I told her I really only needed
TT and RK, but was willing to buy the whole set. She was happy to sell me just the two volumes I needed (and she sold the third later individually). She has since been a part of my purchases of both
Serbian B and
Macedonian.