The Great Tales of Middle-earth Boxed Set

Thank you for the update! Great news!

Info from HC on this set, thanks onthetrail for letting me know about it

Our books will of course be the HarperCollins hardbacks, which are all slightly larger than the American printings, but it’s an opportunity for those who have missed out on getting the three in hardback to have them in a nice slipcased edition.

Do we think this will be mixed later impressions?

Khamûl wrote:
Do we think this will be mixed later impressions?

Would have to be. CoH is on about the zillionth impression, now, and the others have gone to reprint, I believe.

They won't be first printings, but could well be very rare editions in the future as they are not signed by Alan Lee

They will definitely all MATCH, for sure (matte & glossy dustjackets over the years, etc)

(Also I've rejoined the site after a slight abscence. I'm leafing through the posts, which is why older ones may be cropping up. But I'll keep it to the 2019 year)

insurrbution wrote:
They will definitely all MATCH, for sure (matte & glossy dustjackets over the years, etc)

(Also I've rejoined the site after a slight abscence. I'm leafing through the posts, which is why older ones may be cropping up. But I'll keep it to the 2019 year)

We don't have any fixed dates on a UK printing of this box-set at the moment. The only currently available box-set is the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt edition.

We all know that what a book's info SAYS, and what we actually GET are two different things. Remember the Hobbit Facsimile delays?

Here is the product info for the HarperCollins set (if I'm repeating this from earlier in the post, I apologize):

ISBN: 9780008360108

Publication date: August 19

No product photo yet. Description follows:

This sumptuous gift set collects together hardback editions of the three most recently published tales of Middle-earth – The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, and The Fall of Gondolin – and presents them in a matching slipcase decorated with the stunning artwork of the books’ artist, Alan Lee.

THE CHILDREN OF HÚRIN
Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwells in the vast fortress of Angband in the North; and within the shadow of the fear of Angband, and the war waged by Morgoth against the Elves, the fates of Túrin and his sister will be tragically entwined. Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Húrin, the man who dared defy him to his face. Against them Morgoth sends his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire, in an attempt to fulfil his curse and destroy the children of Húrin.

BEREN AND LÚTHIEN
Deeply opposed to the marriage of Beren, a mortal man, to his daughter Lúthien, the great Elvish lord, Thingol, imposes an impossible task that Beren must perform before they might wed. Undaunted by Lord Thingol’s challenge, Beren and Lúthien embark on the supremely heroic attempt to rob Morgoth, the greatest of all evil beings, of a Silmaril, one of the hallowed jewels that adorn the Black Enemy’s crown.

THE FALL OF GONDOLIN
Central to the enmity of two of the greatest powers in the world – Morgoth and Ulmo – is the Elvish city of Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable. Turgon King of Gondolin is hated and feared above all his enemies by Morgoth, who seeks in vain to discover the marvellously hidden city, while the gods in Valinor largely refuse to support Ulmo. Into this world comes Tuor, cousin of Túrin, the instrument of Ulmo's designs. Guided unseen by him Tuor sets out on the fearful journey to Gondolin, where he becomes great; he is wedded to Idril, Turgon's daughter, and their son is Eärendel, whose birth and profound importance in days to come is foreseen by Ulmo. Then Morgoth learns through an act of supreme treachery all that he needs to mount a devastating attack on the city, with Balrogs and dragons and numberless Orcs.

The HarperCollins boxed set is delayed indefinitely, is what I have heard.