Thanks for doing this, Trotter. I was happy to wait, as all TCG admin suggested 🙂

Thank you for your work!

I think the Bridge of Khazad-dum should not be featured in the 1992 edition as it was painted for the Folio.

Other than that, the only missing info is whether the new 2024 deluxe edition features the new illustrations of Caradhras, The Scouring of the Shire, and The Grey Havens.

PlainVanilla wrote:

I think the Bridge of Khazad-dum should not be featured in the 1992 edition as it was painted for the Folio.

Fixed

Thanks! So if I count correctly, there are 56 paintings throughout the story plus the winged nazgul as the opening page, plus three new illustrations as covers, plus Mount Doom inside the case and the ring at the bottom of the Anduin on the for edge.

Speaking of artwork, one thing to point out:

To this date, the 2014 illustrated slipcased edition is the only place you can find the Nazgûl frontispiece in full, as a 3-panel (page?) fold-out sheet.

This likely isn’t of great importance, but still worth observing.


Ending note: up to and including 2014 most deluxe editions had a fold-out of some kind. Even though the 2014 illustrated slipcased LotR isn’t technically a ‘deluxe’ edition (it still has some traits of one) as it doesn’t match the usual line-up, having a fold-out in it was a nice touch.

The flying nazgul artwork is presented in full inside the box of the Folio limited edition.

Scarlet_Sorcerer wrote:

Even though the 2014 illustrated slipcased LotR isn’t technically a ‘deluxe’ edition (it still has some traits of one) as it doesn’t match the usual line-up, having a fold-out in it was a nice touch.

To my knowledge, the publisher has never described this edition as a 'deluxe' edition.

Trotter wrote:

Scarlet_Sorcerer wrote:

Even though the 2014 illustrated slipcased LotR isn’t technically a ‘deluxe’ edition (it still has some traits of one) as it doesn’t match the usual line-up, having a fold-out in it was a nice touch.

To my knowledge, the publisher has never described this edition as a 'deluxe' edition.

Yes, I don’t think the publisher would put a book with a plastic slipcase as “deluxe” also not sure why you are comparing a one volume book to a boxset. Makes no sense.

I never implied it was one or that they called it as such: just that it had *similar traits* to the *usual* line-up of deluxe editions:

- a slipcase
- a ribbon-marker
- something that folds out.

I even stated that it does *not* match the others.


PlainVanilla: that’s right, I forgot that the FS edition had interior box art!

Scarlet_Sorcerer wrote:

I never implied it was one or that they called it as such: just that it had *similar traits* to the *usual* line-up of deluxe editions:

- a slipcase
- a ribbon-marker
- something that folds out.

I even stated that it does *not* match the others.

Those criteria would make a lot of Tolkien books 'deluxe' editions when they are not, including the book you referenced.