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Trotter

26 March
2025-3-26 6:32:04 AM UTC

Tall Hobbit wrote:

Where did this come from?

https://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/n ... ewtopic.php?post_id=55911

Tall Hobbit
Not too shy to talk

26 March
2025-3-26 10:54:18 AM UTC

Trotter wrote:
Tall Hobbit wrote:

Where did this come from?

https://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/n ... ewtopic.php?post_id=55911

I thought that was just for the Folio society limited edition released in November 2024. Not an upcoming edition this year?

Trotter

26 March
2025-3-26 11:22:34 AM UTC

The Folio Society released a limited Alan Lee illustrated edition of The Lord of the Rings. At a later date, HarperCollins released a non-limited Deluxe edition.
The Folio Society then released a limited Alan Lee illustrated edition of The Hobbit. At a later date, HarperCollins.........

Tall Hobbit
Not too shy to talk

26 March
2025-3-26 3:27:48 PM UTC

Yes I'm expecting a HC deluxe Hobbit but the whole "one edition to rule them all" makes me think it's not just Hobbit related.

We will see i suppose.

rosshm16

26 March
2025-3-26 5:45:07 PM UTC

I think it's the rumored illustrated single-volume Book of Lost Tales:

- There was just a deluxe Hobbit last year, and there will surely be a deluxe Hobbit in 2027. Maybe there is enough demand for three deluxe editions of the same book in four years, but I'd be surprised.

- "One edition to rule them all" = single-volume edition of BoLT

- "Something entirely unexpected" = new thing that hasn't been done before (single-volume illustrated BoLT)

DMRoberts

26 March
2025-3-26 7:18:08 PM UTC

Do we have any indication on the timing of the announcement of details of this mysterious release? September? June? Start of next month?

The late Stu
Home away from home

27 March
2025-3-27 12:27:47 AM UTC

Emilien wrote:
"the very start of a brand new adventure"
This sentence makes think about a whole series of books, and I'm thinking about the already mentioned and rumoured illustrated edition of the Book of Lost Tales.

Definitely seems plausible.

Gerryt

27 March
2025-3-27 4:52:28 PM UTC

How soon after the folio LotR was the HC announced ?

rosshm16

27 March
2025-3-27 7:54:37 PM UTC

Gerryt wrote:
How soon after the folio LotR was the HC announced ?

I think it was 2022 for the Folio set and 2024 for the HarperCollins set. The Folio Hobbit was earlier this year.

My hesitation on this upcoming book being a deluxe Hobbit based on the recent Folio Hobbit is that 2027 is the 90th anniversary of the Hobbit's publication, would seemingly be the perfect time for a new HC deluxe Hobbit and I doubt they want to release so many deluxe Hobbits in such a short span. But I'm not a book publisher, what do I know.

2023/24: Tolkien Illustrated deluxe Hobbit (HC/WM)
2025: This thing
2027: Presumably a 90th anniversary Hobbit release

That is a lot of Hobbit in a few years if "this thing" is a Hobbit.

The late Stu
Home away from home

27 March
2025-3-27 8:07:06 PM UTC

rosshm16 wrote:
Gerryt wrote:
How soon after the folio LotR was the HC announced ?

I think it was 2022 for the Folio set and 2024 for the HarperCollins set. The Folio Hobbit was earlier this year.

My hesitation on this upcoming book being a deluxe Hobbit based on the recent Folio Hobbit is that 2027 is the 90th anniversary of the Hobbit's publication, would seemingly be the perfect time for a new HC deluxe Hobbit and I doubt they want to release so many deluxe Hobbits in such a short span. But I'm not a book publisher, what do I know.

2023/24: Tolkien Illustrated deluxe Hobbit (HC/WM)
2025: This thing
2027: Presumably a 90th anniversary Hobbit release

That is a lot of Hobbit in a few years if "this thing" is a Hobbit.

I agree to some extent. Though I could see them wanting to bring the Folio-LE downscaling forward to this year precisely because it gives a small gap until 2027. Right now the market is hot and consuming almost anything HarperCollins throws at it. Two years is a long time and the economy is very uncertain. I'm not sure they would want to push things back if they see a potential for easy money, now. In some ways the 2027 anniversary is support for them getting a Folioesque Hobbit out early, with a 70th anniversary one coming out in October 2027 or thereabouts.

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