Eorl wrote:
The AwesomeBooks listing says paperback in one place and deluxe in another. Which one is it? ?

They don't tend to correct early details. The amazon UK listing said paperback too at first, and 192 pages, it seemed the 2012 paperback details were used as a placeholder.

Some more pictures from HarperCollins twitter account https://twitter.com/HarperCollinsUK

Looks lovely. I had planned on buying this book as a Christmas gift to myself for years - I’m glad I will finally have it this year, and in a special format too :)

Video from Talking Tolkien

Thanks Trotter. Looks like a nice book.

Has anybody who ordered from AwesomeBooks had a shipping notice yet? My order says it will arrive around 31st October.

Got my copy from Amazon today, I really like it.

The Fold Out section at the front shows all the facsimile stamps that Tolkien made for the letters.

Looks like HarperCollins have reacted to past criticism of the printers, by no longer stating who it is printed by or the country it was printed in.

He seems like such a nice guy.

I zoomed in on the copyright page and couldn’t seem to find the printer info either ?

Looks like a lovely book though!

To me that doesn't matter - my 60th anniversary boxed set of The Lord of the Rings (with the Reader's Companion) was printed in China (maybe Hong Kong...) and there's no issues with any of the books in terms of printing quality. (the only two errors is there's no comma in Gandalf's letter to Frodo, and 'The Book of Mazarbul' within the fold-out section isn't spelt correctly)

insurrbution wrote:
To me that doesn't matter - my 60th anniversary boxed set of The Lord of the Rings (with the Reader's Companion) was printed in China (maybe Hong Kong...) and there's no issues with any of the books in terms of printing quality. (the only two errors is there's no comma in Gandalf's letter to Frodo, and 'The Book of Mazarbul' within the fold-out section isn't spelt correctly)

I think that is why they removed the printer or country of printing.

Received mine today. Haven't actually opened it yet, but the omission of the printing information is surprising. I'm struggling to think of any books in my collection that don't have a stated printer & country of printing. Future bibliographers are going to love this move from HarperCollins! Not.