remy wrote:

Many thanks Matt & Uruloke. Info much appreciated.

I will keep an eye out for the 1971 Ringens Värld. I am pretty sure I have seen it come up sale regularly enough. Looks familiar anyway!

[Edit Add] Found a copy on Bokborsen. Many thanks again!

Varsågod! Glad you found a copy so readily.

Is this newer edition of "Ringens Värld" the same as the older one that was posted (the Appendices to LOTR)? Or is this something different?

I don't have either of them, but they are different - the one posted before, first published in 1971, is only the Appendices, whereas that edition you've shown was published for the first time in 1980, and is significantly longer (309 pages as opposed to 160).

The longer edition contains the Appendices as well as The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Tree and Leaf, and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth:

https://libris.kb.se/bib/7219204

There are a few different covers for the longer edition - the first one in 1980, then a "jubilee edition" in 1989, then the one you've shown, which first came out in 2001. That one is mentioned as a "new edition" though the content appears to be the same:

https://libris.kb.se/bib/8373031

Predictable Matt wrote:

I don't have either of them, but they are different - the one posted before, first published in 1971, is only the Appendices, whereas that edition you've shown was published for the first time in 1980, and is significantly longer (309 pages as opposed to 160).

The longer edition contains the Appendices as well as The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Tree and Leaf, and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth:

https://libris.kb.se/bib/7219204

There are a few different covers for the longer edition - the first one in 1980, then a "jubilee edition" in 1989, then the one you've shown, which first came out in 2001. That one is mentioned as a "new edition" though the content appears to be the same:

https://libris.kb.se/bib/8373031

Thank you, Predictable Matt!! I found copies of all four of these on Bokbörsen (including the original one without the extras) and ordered them. I'm still waiting for confirmation from all the different sellers to pay for them, but assuming that the purchases are successful, this will complete some of the sets I already have. Since I've collected from so many different languages, I'm not always aware of whether the Appendices are bound with ROTK or not so hearing about volumes like this is exciting. (In one Russian edition the Appendices are bound as an introduction to FOTR.)

Excellent Taivo! Glad to hear it

This one is quite interesting too, in case you haven't come across it - it collects some of the same essays that appeared in The Monsters and the Critics (1983) but pre-dated that collection by 8 years:

https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Om_Beowulfsagan