It's going to hurt the wallet : https://twitter.com/HarperCollinsUK/status/1375063697232695302

Not sure that HarperCollins using my suggestions for marketing is a good idea. It was suggested yesterday on this forum, they over-used 'Sumptuous' so I suggested 'Resplendent' instead.

Trotter wrote:

Not sure that HarperCollins using my suggestions for marketing is a good idea. It was suggested yesterday on this forum, they over-used 'Sumptuous' so I suggested 'Resplendent' instead.

The coincidence is too much. That word is all you! ?

Oh! Looks like they'll be using a new term for each edition that is nicer than usual! *that's meant in good humor*.

All in all, in seriousness here, from 1991 - present, HarperCollins has done an overall fantastic job in providing Tolkien titles for us. Sure, there may have been the odd flub from time to time (some examples that I can think of include The Hobbit 80th Anniversary Facsimile Edition, the level of quality and appearance of The History of Middle-earth collector's edition, as well as a few other things from time to time, as long-time collectors can recall).

No matter if I get a Tolkien item or not, I look forward to seeing the new editions, thanks to both the internet and this website.

Wow, looks like they're really doing a big PR effort for these.

Don't think the US Trade release date has been posted here yet, 19th October 2021. $75 from Amazon. No mention of a Deluxe edition as yet.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0358653037/? ... collsguid-20&linkCode=osi


NEW YORK (AP) — An upcoming edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy will include paintings, drawings and other illustrations by the British author for the first time since it was published in the mid-1950s.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media announced Thursday that the new version will come out Oct. 19. Deb Brody, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s vice president and publisher, noted that Tolkien was already known for his illustrations which appeared in “The Hobbit” and that his artwork for “The Lord of the Rings” had been exhibited in 2018 in New York, Paris and in Oxford, England.

’Yet the author himself was characteristically modest, dismissive of the obvious and rare artistic talent he possessed despite having had no formal training,” Brody said in a statement. “This modesty meant that relatively little else of his artwork was known of or seen during his lifetime, and generally only in scholarly books afterwards.”

“The Lord of the Rings” books, which include “The Fellowship of the Ring,” “The Two Towers” and “The Return of the King,” are among the best-selling fantasy novels in history. They were adapted into a blockbuster trilogy of films by director Peter Jackson.

https://apnews.com/article/oxford-jrr- ... 1f5589297c7256aa294eb8667

Do we know what the inscription on the page edges says?

St. Troy wrote:

Do we know what the inscription on the page edges says?

The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here. But this in the Common Tongue is what is said, close enough:

"The product images shown are for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product".

Odd...

Thorongil wrote:

The language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here. But this in the Common Tongue is what is said, close enough:

"The product images shown are for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product".

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