The frontispiece?

Gerryt wrote:

Looks great, would love to see a good photo of the new cover painting

Tall Hobbit wrote:

The frontispiece?

Gerryt wrote:

Looks great, would love to see a good photo of the new cover painting

Thank you :)

The late Stu wrote:

Mr. Underhill wrote:

Just an FYI for those are have received their copies or are getting them in the coming days, look through them carefully. Mine arrived yesterday (#340). Unfortunately it is missing a section of seven tipped in illustrations in the middle chapters of the book.

I have been in contact with Folio customer service today and am waiting on a response as to how to resolve this. Be sure to check your copies for this issue, hopefully this is a one off and I am the only one. As you can see the pages are present, just no images for the middle seven. Circled in the second image are the illustrations missing.

I had this idea that after all the problems with LotR that Folio and LEGO would have learned something, yet I haven't seen a picture of a fault-free copy yet (though I'm sure they exist -- maybe Trotter's?). I guess at least with your copy, it can be remanufactured and have the illustrations added fairly easily. With the LoTR remanufacturing by Smith-Settle you didn't get the copies back fixed, you got random other "fixed" (i.e. not actually fixed) copies back, so you could end up in a worse situation than you started. Though in the case of 7 missing illustrations, you would be hard pushed to be worse!!!

I have gotten a stock response from Folio yesterday evening my time. They are forwarding my images to the "design team" to see how to "best address this issue" but probably won't hear anything until early next week. I'm sure they will want me to send it back so it can be repaired.

Oh bother!