remy, that's it, sorry if I wasn't clear. The Hobbit Encyclopedia was published earlier in September in English and is a translation of a book I co-directed in 2013 with a new edition in 2022. The Second Age Encyclopedia that is forthcoming in French is of the same kind.

Bergelmir wrote:

Trotter wrote:

Taivo wrote:

Trotter, Do you think that 3 October date is a good one for Le Seigneur des Anneaux? Le Hobbit and Le Silmarillion have been available for about a year now on Amazon.fr, but LSDA isn't listed there yet.

Probably a better question for Bergelmir

Indeed, Trotter !

The publication date has been confirmed for October 3 by the publisher.
I don't know why you couldn't find them, Taivo, but they're definitely available on Amazon.fr here :
- La Fraternité de l'Anneau
- Les Deux Tours
- Le Retour du Roi

As with all things relating to publishing, that 3 October date slipped. The first two volumes were shipped by amazon.fr on 6 October and the third was shipped on 25 October. So all three volumes are now available for purchase. But less than a month of slippage is actually fast compared to other volumes that I've ordered. (I preordered a linguistics book from Oxford University Press in mid-2022 that was due to be published in early 2023. The book was shipped yesterday.)

The cover for the French volume was just published, with its title "Les Mondes de Christopher Tolkien : hommage pour son centenaire" or "The Worlds of Christopher Tolkien: hommage for his centenary" and the contributors :

Vincent Ferré, Daniel Lauzon (traduction), Baillie Tolkien, Alan Lee, Leo Carruthers, Thomas Honegger, Christine Laferrière, Damien Bador, Vivien Stocker, Isabelle Pantin , Richard Ovenden, Jean-Philippe Qadri, Chris Smith, Laurence Lebourg, Lucas Zembrzuski.

For now, only a digital edition is planned, but we hope a real book soon.

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Les Mondes de Christopher Tolkien : Hommage pour son centenaire (French Edition)

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thank you Druss
for those who attended the DTG conference a fortnight ago: the title has changed. Here is a brief presentation (rough translation)

"Christopher Tolkien would have been 100 years old on 21 November. He is best known for having ‘revealed’ the world invented by his father, through the twenty books he published; but this book contains analyses of maps of Middle-earth unknown to the general public ( kept in his archives); essays on the works he co-wrote (including The Silmarillion) without ever putting himself forward; with exceptional testimonies from Baillie Tolkien (who accompanied him for 54 years, throughout the publication of his works), illustrator Alan Lee and his English publisher Chris Smith, 'Bodley Librarian' Richard Ovenden... personal accounts and essays demonstrate that Christopher Tolkien not only edited thousands of pages by J.R.R. Tolkien and mapped his universe: he is also a writer and artist in his own right.
Yet Christopher Tolkien lived fully in our world, where he had a passion for plants, butterflies and architecture. A former fighter pilot during the Second World War, a student and then professor at Oxford, he was also an amateur photographer: a portfolio of 16 photographs reveals his taste for the natural world.'

best wishes
vf

Here is the ToC (Texts are in French. Titles translated into English)

Baillie Tolkien, Preface: “Christopher’s Worlds”

Vincent Ferré, “Christopher Tolkien: Revealing, Unveiling, Inventing... the world”

Part I

Thomas Honegger, “Between Fathers and Sons: The Presence of Christopher in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fictional Works”

Leo Carruthers, “From Théoden to Beorhtnoth: The Old English Heroic Tradition as a Link Between Father and Son”

Jean-Philippe Qadri, “‘Well – Start Writing a Story!’ or How to Resist the Mechanisation of the Imagination”
Part II “Christopher Tolkien: Artist and Writer”

Laurence Lebourg, “Christopher Tolkien and the Maps of Middle-earth: Between Fidelity and Reinvention,”

Vivien Stocker, “Christopher Tolkien and the Challenge of the Silmarillion: Chapter 22 and the Rediscovered Letter”

Lucas Zembrzuski, “Unfinished Tales: A Turning Point in Christopher Tolkien’s Literary Career”

Damien Bador, “Christopher Tolkien and the Elvish Languages: Five Decades of Work”

Isabelle Pantin,“Journeys through Time and Mysterious Transitions from History to Legend and Myth: An Investigation Following the Ariadne’s Thread Prepared by Christopher Tolkien”
Part III

Alan Lee, “Christopher Tolkien”

Christine Laferrière, “All is as it is”

Chris Smith, “In Memory of Christopher Tolkien”

Richard Ovenden, Bodley medal award speech (May 2017)

Envoy: "For Christopher", Vincent Ferré

Following Aelfwine's remark (thank you)
here are some links. Please let me know if you have difficulties to find the book

https://www.furet.com/ebooks/les-monde ... 0198_9782370680198_2.html
https://www.kobo.com/fr/fr/ebook/les-m ... mmage-pour-son-centenaire
https://books.apple.com/fr/book/les-mo ... age-pour-son/id6737415371

https://shop.vivlio.com/product/978237 ... mmage-pour-son-centenaire

https://www.7switch.com/fr/ebook/97823 ... mmage-pour-son-centenaire

https://e-librairie.leclerc/product/97 ... tenaire?listName=&listId=

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Les Mondes de Christopher Tolkien : Hommage pour son centenaire (French Edition)

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€14.99 Amazon.de (Kindle Ausgabe) - Availability: Now

@Prof.VincentFerre
Dear Vincent, a huge thank you for making this book a reality (even if we are all awaiting a printed edition). Already digging into it and that's a fantastic collection of articles about Christopher, his life and works.