Cover art for For Beginners book is terrible. Truly amateurish.

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Tolkien Focused books for 2022

gobbledygook wrote:

Cover art for For Beginners book is terrible. Truly amateurish.

Yes, I think the illustrator had just read "Adobe Illustrator for beginners". It really is bad.

gobbledygook wrote:

Cover art for For Beginners book is terrible. Truly amateurish.

Gollum only has 4 fingers. Lol.

On a positive note, I really disliked the original cover for Tolkien's Library, and I think the new one is much, much, better.

J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien Anthology, HarperCollins, 06 Oct 2022. 9780008537838 (Hardback, £25.00), 9780008537845 (Deluxe, £75.00)

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The Fall of Númenor (HC) (2022)

HarperCollins (2022-11-10)

£25.00 HarperCollins (Hardback) - Availability: Click to check

$26.02 Blackwell's (hardback) - Availability: Usually dispatched within 7 days

$18.50 Amazon.com (Hardcover) - Availability: Now

£20.21 Amazon.co.uk (Hardcover) - Availability: Now

€20.97 Amazon.de (Gebundene Ausgabe) - Availability: Now

€21.49 AbeBooks - Availability: Click to check

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The Fall of Númenor: Deluxe (UK, HB)

HarperCollins (2022-11-10)

£75.00 HarperCollins (Hardback) - Availability: Click to check

$94.84 Blackwell's (hardback (slipcased)) - Availability: Usually dispatched within 7 days

$66.48 Amazon.com (Hardcover) - Availability: Now

£47.97 Amazon.co.uk (Hardcover) - Availability: Now

€60.97 Amazon.de (Gebundene Ausgabe) - Availability: Now

€55.15 AbeBooks - Availability: Click to check

zionius wrote:

No idea what's this

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The Fall of Númenor (WM) (2022)

William Morrow (2022-11-15)

$35.68 Blackwell's (hardback) - Availability: Usually dispatched within 72 hours

$16.93 Amazon.com (Hardcover) - Availability: Now

£unknown Amazon.co.uk (Hardcover) - Availability: unknown

€11.99 Amazon.de (Kindle Ausgabe) - Availability: Now

$14.76 AbeBooks - Availability: Click to check

$14.76 eBay US - Availability: Click to check

I would love to know this, too, particularly why this would be published by yet another HC imprint, William Morrow, and Urulókë mentioned on a LETTERS edition coming out on Sept 1 (?) there is a bit of a mix-up?

This is supposed to be published on Oct 4.

Olwe wrote:

zionius wrote:

No idea what's this

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The Fall of Númenor (WM) (2022)

William Morrow (2022-11-15)

$35.68 Blackwell's (hardback) - Availability: Usually dispatched within 72 hours

$16.93 Amazon.com (Hardcover) - Availability: Now

£unknown Amazon.co.uk (Hardcover) - Availability: unknown

€11.99 Amazon.de (Kindle Ausgabe) - Availability: Now

$14.76 AbeBooks - Availability: Click to check

$14.76 eBay US - Availability: Click to check

I would love to know this, too, particularly why this would be published by yet another HC imprint, William Morrow, and Urulókë mentioned on a LETTERS edition coming out on Sept 1 (?) there is a bit of a mix-up?

This is supposed to be published on Oct 4.

William Morrow is the new name for the bit of HMH that HC acquired. I think the use of Mariner was a temporary "fix".

My guess is that this might be the boxed set of re-issued 2013 Hobbit/LoTR.

Olwe wrote:

I would love to know this, too, particularly why this would be published by yet another HC imprint, William Morrow, and Urulókë mentioned on a LETTERS edition coming out on Sept 1 (?) there is a bit of a mix-up?

This is supposed to be published on Oct 4.

HC itself will publish a similar title 2 days later: Tolkien Anthology

What puzzles me is the 320 page count. If that's correct, it has to be a full-color book, and can't be Hobbit/LoTR box set. Could it be the Marquette exhibition book?

320 pages maybe for shorter works as in A Tolkien Miscellany.
Wonder what they chose?