Cover art for For Beginners book is terrible. Truly amateurish.

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Tolkien Focused books for 2022

gobbledygook wrote:

Cover art for For Beginners book is terrible. Truly amateurish.

Yes, I think the illustrator had just read "Adobe Illustrator for beginners". It really is bad.

gobbledygook wrote:

Cover art for For Beginners book is terrible. Truly amateurish.

Gollum only has 4 fingers. Lol.

On a positive note, I really disliked the original cover for Tolkien's Library, and I think the new one is much, much, better.

J.R.R. Tolkien, Tolkien Anthology, HarperCollins, 06 Oct 2022. 9780008537838 (Hardback, £25.00), 9780008537845 (Deluxe, £75.00)

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The Fall of Númenor (HC) (2022)

HarperCollins (2022-11-10)

$26.01 Blackwell's (hardback) - Availability: Usually dispatched within 10 days

$29.06 Amazon.com (Hardcover) - Availability: Now

£21.79 Amazon.co.uk (Hardcover) - Availability: Now

£22.29 AbeBooks - Availability: Click to check

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The Fall of Númenor: Deluxe (UK, HB)

HarperCollins (2022-11-10)

$95.87 Blackwell's (hardback (slipcased)) - Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours

$71.30 Amazon.com (Hardcover) - Availability: Now

£53.37 Amazon.co.uk (Hardcover) - Availability: Now

£58.23 AbeBooks - Availability: Click to check

zionius wrote:

No idea what's this

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The Fall of Númenor (WM) (2022)

William Morrow (2022-11-15)

$44.74 Blackwell's (hardback) - Availability: Usually dispatched within 72 hours

$23.20 Amazon.com (Hardcover) - Availability: Now

£26.44 Amazon.co.uk (Hardcover) - Availability: Now

$25.70 AbeBooks - Availability: Click to check

$19.00 eBay US - Availability: Click to check

I would love to know this, too, particularly why this would be published by yet another HC imprint, William Morrow, and Urulókë mentioned on a LETTERS edition coming out on Sept 1 (?) there is a bit of a mix-up?

This is supposed to be published on Oct 4.

Olwe wrote:

zionius wrote:

No idea what's this

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The Fall of Númenor (WM) (2022)

William Morrow (2022-11-15)

$44.74 Blackwell's (hardback) - Availability: Usually dispatched within 72 hours

$23.20 Amazon.com (Hardcover) - Availability: Now

£26.44 Amazon.co.uk (Hardcover) - Availability: Now

$25.70 AbeBooks - Availability: Click to check

$19.00 eBay US - Availability: Click to check

I would love to know this, too, particularly why this would be published by yet another HC imprint, William Morrow, and Urulókë mentioned on a LETTERS edition coming out on Sept 1 (?) there is a bit of a mix-up?

This is supposed to be published on Oct 4.

William Morrow is the new name for the bit of HMH that HC acquired. I think the use of Mariner was a temporary "fix".

My guess is that this might be the boxed set of re-issued 2013 Hobbit/LoTR.

Olwe wrote:

I would love to know this, too, particularly why this would be published by yet another HC imprint, William Morrow, and Urulókë mentioned on a LETTERS edition coming out on Sept 1 (?) there is a bit of a mix-up?

This is supposed to be published on Oct 4.

HC itself will publish a similar title 2 days later: Tolkien Anthology

What puzzles me is the 320 page count. If that's correct, it has to be a full-color book, and can't be Hobbit/LoTR box set. Could it be the Marquette exhibition book?

320 pages maybe for shorter works as in A Tolkien Miscellany.
Wonder what they chose?