Mathom (Disambiguation)

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(Did you mean a clubzine or a fanzine)

A term introduced by Tolkien in the Prologue of The Fellowship of the Ring:

for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom. 

See Collector.