gobbledygook wrote:

Ecthelion wrote:

I wonder if they'll publish A&I in the same format...

Does A&I fall into the same category as these three books (Art books and Pictures)? I was under the impression that A&I is of a somewhat different format - more text to accompany pictures - whereas Art books are heavier on pictures.

Also, if there's someone who has - like myself - somehow managed to miss out on the Art books - Waterstones webshop states that the publisher is reprinting the Art of the Hobbit. It was available in a few shops (WS, Bodleian, Foyles) until maybe a few weeks ago. Now it's nowhere to be found.

This looks to be the UK edition at a sensible price https://biblio.co.uk/book/art-hobbit-j-r-r-tolkien/d/604070616

Mr. Underhill - Thanks for that explanation.

Mr. Underhill wrote:

eorl wrote:

gobbledygook wrote:

Also, if there's someone who has - like myself - somehow managed to miss out on the Art books - Waterstones webshop states that the publisher is reprinting the Art of the Hobbit. It was available in a few shops (WS, Bodleian, Foyles) until maybe a few weeks ago. Now it's nowhere to be found.

I’m seeing the Art of the Hobbit is available at BookDepository and the Nile. Am I missing something?

The HoughtonMifflin edition is available at BookDepository but the HarperCollins edition is not.
The HMH edition does not come with the slipcase.
https://www.bookdepository.com/Art-Hob ... &qid=1627564250271&sr=1-1

https://www.bookdepository.com/Art-Hob ... &qid=1627564443019&sr=1-2

Trivially easy to pick up on eBay if anyone doesn't want to wait for the next reprint. Not like there haven't been lots of the these printed.

This book looks quite interesting but am unable to find it for sale as a printed book only as an eBook from Google. If you find it for sale as a printed book, please post the link.

Switzerland in Tolkien's Middle-Earth: In the footsteps of his adventurous summer journey in 1911—with hiking suggestions

Author & Publisher : Martin S. Monsch

ISBN : 978-3907323021

In 1911, at the age of nineteen, J. R. R. Tolkien embarked on an adventurous journey through the Swiss Alps; with a heavy pack, he hiked over many high passes. More than fifty years later, he mentioned in a letter to his son Michael that this trip had deeply affected him. Bilbo's journey in The Hobbit from Rivendell to the other side of the Misty Mountains, he said, was based on his own adventures in 1911.

Tolkien himself named a few specific sources of inspiration, most explicitly the Silberhorn (Silverhorn). So I wondered: Was this perhaps only the tip of the iceberg? Following in Tolkien's footsteps, I myself set out into the spectacular mountain world with its stories, myths, and legends, in search of his sources of inspiration; and little by little, a vivid and mysterious world revealed itself to me: a world that helped shape Middle-earth.

More than 100 color images accompany the author's research and discovery journey, along with 11 hiking and 3 road trip suggestions that allow readers to recreate Tolkien's experience with all its impressions themselves in the Swiss mountains.

"This book is above all else an invitation to step into Tolkien's hiking shoes, shoulder his pack, and step back a century into a world which is as far from today as Middle-earth is from our world; a guidebook of impressions, a walking tour of the nature of imagination and the imagination of nature." - John Howe

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Switzerland in Tolkien's Middle-Earth

Martin S. Monsch (2021-07-29)

$30.46 Blackwell's (paperback) - Availability: Unknown

$25.20 Biblio (Trade Paperback) - Availability: Click to check

$27.88 Amazon.com (Paperback) - Availability: Now

£22.72 Amazon.co.uk (Paperback) - Availability: Now

€31.73 Amazon.de (Taschenbuch) - Availability: Now

£25.49 AbeBooks - Availability: Click to check

£23.88 eBay UK - Availability: Click to check

https://play.google.com/store/books/de ... gnid=books_booksearch_atb

There it is : https://www.amazon.com/Switzerland-Tol ... collsguid-20&linkCode=osi

Also available in UK

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/3907323025 ... collsguid-21&linkCode=osi

In Germany it is also available as hardback

Druss and Ithildin Thanks the ISBN was wrong in the article that I quoted

Apologies if this was posted elsewhere, but any idea how accurate this may be?

The Annotated Hobbit, Third Edition, listed on Book Depository with a release date of 25 Feb 2022. It has an ISBN of 9781328497598 and there's a book description.

https://www.bookdepository.com/Annotat ... &qid=1628868003561&sr=1-7

Don’t hold your breath! It may be right but it’s been touted for several years, and even though it is being worked on the author said in an interview recently, he doesn’t like to give dates as lots of things can happen in between.

huan68 wrote:

Don’t hold your breath! It may be right but it’s been touted for several years, and even though it is being worked on the author said in an interview recently, he doesn’t like to give dates as lots of things can happen in between.

Could not agree more, will be pleased to see this when released but I don't believe that date will happen.