LotR 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, Harper Collins
2 November
2024-11-2 6:33:59 AM UTC
2024-11-2 6:33:59 AM UTC
I recently purchased the deluxe, slipcase edition of LotR (only three more deluxe editions to go to complete my collection of them!), and while it is a beautiful book (the pictures simply do not do the maroon of the binding justice), something has been bothering me about it.
I believe the marketing materials for the book state there are two fold-out maps in the book. There is only one in mine: the zoomed-in map of Rohan, Gondor, and Mordor before the first page of Chapter 1 of Book Five, Minas Tirith. There is another map (not a fold-out) of A Part of the Shire before the first page of Chapter 1 of Book One, A Long-Expected Party. Also, there is a fold-out printed on glossy paper of the leaves from the Book of Mazarbul (just now realizing the glossy pages name it as 'Marzabul') at the end of Chapter 4 of Book Two, A Journey in the Dark.
Am I missing something? Doesn't LotR usually have the full map of Middle-earth that Christopher Tolkien did for Unfinished Tales (i.e., The West of Middle-earth at the End of the Third Age)?
Not a huge deal, as I have several copies of the map in other editions of LotR and other books, but I didn't know if this was a known issue or something.
Thank you in advance!
I believe the marketing materials for the book state there are two fold-out maps in the book. There is only one in mine: the zoomed-in map of Rohan, Gondor, and Mordor before the first page of Chapter 1 of Book Five, Minas Tirith. There is another map (not a fold-out) of A Part of the Shire before the first page of Chapter 1 of Book One, A Long-Expected Party. Also, there is a fold-out printed on glossy paper of the leaves from the Book of Mazarbul (just now realizing the glossy pages name it as 'Marzabul') at the end of Chapter 4 of Book Two, A Journey in the Dark.
Am I missing something? Doesn't LotR usually have the full map of Middle-earth that Christopher Tolkien did for Unfinished Tales (i.e., The West of Middle-earth at the End of the Third Age)?
Not a huge deal, as I have several copies of the map in other editions of LotR and other books, but I didn't know if this was a known issue or something.
Thank you in advance!
21
2012