Yes exactly Stu. Maybe not a photoshop, most probably a render, but definitely not the actual thing :)

Not sure if posted already, but here is a link to the Tolkien Society's website reporting the news

https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2018/04 ... gondolin-to-be-published/

What colour do you think the deluxe edition will be? The same blue in the image?
It seems a very similar colour to The Silmarillion, CoH and Beowulf deluxe editions. I'm hoping it's a different colour, maybe orange/red or something brighter like TftPR.

Yeah I’m also hoping it’s not going to be another shade of blue, but it seems like it will be.

I’m always excited about the motif - I wonder what it will be this time.

So I picked up the new paperback edition of Beren and Luthien in Waterstones today, but all they had were 4th impressions. Not sure where the first three went.

Interestingly, for this release HC have reverted to the template last used for Sigurd and Gudrun - with the miniature version of the cover on the spine.

Pictures of the Deluxe Facsimile Hobbit, I am probably going to cancel my order today as I was only interested in the CD and this just appears to be Tolkien reading Riddles in the Dark, so does not appear to have any new audio.

Trotter wrote:
Pictures of the Deluxe Facsimile Hobbit, I am probably going to cancel my order today as I was only interested in the CD and this just appears to be Tolkien reading Riddles in the Dark, so does not appear to have any new audio.

How do you know the contents of the CD (I can't find anything myself) ? Thanks in advance for your answer

From the second picture, the CD cover says J.R.R. Tolkien reads an excerpt from The Hobbit, and on the inside from what you can see it mentions the author's reading of the riddle scene from The Hobbit.

Oh right, I haven't seen the title was at singular (and the text inside is too small for me to read it). It's a shame if the reading isn't an exclusive. I thought that HarperCollins had some unpublished excerpts from this lecture...

Blimey, that box is rubbish. Hopefully a pre-release mockup, but I expect the design - which is dismal - is final.