Beautiful photos Trotter, thanks for sharing! This set really looks good together. I do still think it would look better if Peoples had been in blue rather than the History of LOTR grey, but it's a minor quibble.

So apart from these thirteen HoMe books we also have so far the four grey LotR & Hobbit books, three Great Tales in red and a Tales from the Perilous Realm in green. Do we know yet if the Farmer Giles anniversary book will follow this format?

They have also issued Unfinished Tales and The Silmarillion in this format. I expect Farmer Giles will be in this format, but need to wait for the cover to be certain.

Oh of course Sil & UT too. I forgot I’ve seen those too 🙂

Has anyone ordered the paperback HoMe Index from Blackwell's that can confirm if they are shipping the new purple signature paperback yet?

Tuor son of Huor wrote:

Has anyone ordered the paperback HoMe Index from Blackwell's that can confirm if they are shipping the new purple signature paperback yet?

Can confirm, yes. Ordered a couple of weeks ago.

Why are the WM editions a different size to the UK paperbacks?

Trotter wrote:

Why are the WM editions a different size to the UK paperbacks?

Ya, they are a bit taller(about a 1/2 inch) and a tad bit thinner.

Mr. Underhill wrote:

Can confirm, yes. Ordered a couple of weeks ago.

Excellent, thank you!