Agreed about getting John Howe to sign ANYTHING these days - unless you're in either in Switzerland or France :P

If anyone notices any book signings by John at book stores or on-line book sellers, please post here? For me this is the signing that I would like to get first.

I wouldn't be surprised if Blackwell's, Waterstones or Foyles (or other UK bookstores) offer triple-signed copies. I'm basing that on the fact that with Alan Lee's illustrated contribution (Beren and Luthien, The Fall of Gondolin, Hobbit Sketchbook...) signed copies were offered at launch.

"original artwork" doesn't mean anything at all here. The phrase appears to be being used outside of its accepted definition. The blurb also states that each artist is contributing new artwork -- it doesn't say that all the artwork will be new. There might simply be 3 new images in total.

As fun as speculation is, you might as well just wait and see, as trying to decode the language of the blurb into anything concrete is a fool's errand, I think.

insurrbution wrote:
I wouldn't be surprised if Blackwell's, Waterstones or Foyles (or other UK bookstores) offer triple-signed copies. I'm basing that on the fact that with Alan Lee's illustrated contribution (Beren and Luthien, The Fall of Gondolin, Hobbit Sketchbook...) signed copies were offered at launch.

I would - getting those copies signed by multiple authors would be far more difficult logistically.

Stu wrote:

insurrbution wrote:
I wouldn't be surprised if Blackwell's, Waterstones or Foyles (or other UK bookstores) offer triple-signed copies. I'm basing that on the fact that with Alan Lee's illustrated contribution (Beren and Luthien, The Fall of Gondolin, Hobbit Sketchbook...) signed copies were offered at launch.

I would - getting those copies signed by multiple authors would be far more difficult logistically.

I agree - getting Alan Lee to sign for a UK launch is pretty easy, as he is local and quite willing. Ted is in Canada, and John is in Switzerland, and international travel is... a bit hairy this year.

Unless the publisher sends signature sheets around the world before binding, I don't expect there to be triple-signed copies except for intrepid fans that figure out how to get their personal copies in front of all three individually.

Unless all 3 share a book tour

....though that doesn't seem likely because of covid.

Amazon UK have now added an image for the deluxe.

Beautiful !
But I don't see the match with any line known so far. Maybe the Signed sketchbooks set of Alan Lee's LotR & Hobbit.
Even so, that big Tolkien monogram is absent from the sketchbooks set. But I think this is the best chance of matchong anyway : I can imagine the book to have tissu cloth with pasted picture of John Howe's nazgul.

Well that's interesting not the direction I thought they'd go.
Looks like it's similar in design style the deluxe boxed set from The Hobbit Sketchbook & The Lord of the Rings Sketchbooks

Wonder what size it'll be, dimensions on Amazon UK don't look accurate at this point.