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2024 Lord of the Rings 70th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Unboxing - Tuesday September 24th

19 September
2024-9-19 12:13:59 AM UTC

Join us for a special early peek at the 70th anniversary deluxe slipcased three-volume edition of The Lord of the Rings, due to be released on Oct 1 in the USA from William Morrow, and Oct 10 in the UK from HarperCollins. I have a William Morrow set in hand that we will be unboxing, and we will answer questions about this latest "sumptuous" edition. It is more expensive than many other recent deluxe editions, so hopefully we can help collectors decide if this is worth getting.

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 5:00 PM GMT

You can watch the livestream on Facebook or on our YouTube channel:



19 September
2024-9-19 2:46:56 PM UTC
Awesome! Can't wait to see it. Any initial impressions?
19 September (edited)
2024-9-19 2:49:29 PM UTC

Swamp Donkey wrote:

Awesome! Can't wait to see it. Any initial impressions?

From looking at Jeremy's picture, the main initial impression is that it was delivered in a big cardboard box, not much else until he unboxes it next Tuesday.

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19 September
2024-9-19 3:29:04 PM UTC
I am saving it all boxed up until the livestream, yes - so we can all enjoy opening it together. My initial impression it's ship weight is 9 pounds- quite hefty.
24 September
2024-9-24 8:13:45 AM UTC
Very much looking forward to this! Trouble is I'll be even more impatient after watching until the 10th October!
24 September
2024-9-24 9:56:13 AM UTC
Is it 5pm or 6 ? When you look at the thumbnail on YouTube it says 1800
24 September
2024-9-24 10:32:23 AM UTC

Gerryt wrote:

Is it 5pm or 6 ? When you look at the thumbnail on YouTube it says 1800

That depends upon your Timezone, but is 6pm BST
24 September
2024-9-24 12:08:43 PM UTC

Gerryt wrote:

Is it 5pm or 6 ? When you look at the thumbnail on YouTube it says 1800

If you have a look at your account, in the private details you should see the timezone. If it correct for your location then the time you see on the announcement will be your time zone.
24 September
2024-9-24 5:58:18 PM UTC
Looks great, thanks guys.
24 September (edited)
2024-9-24 6:19:33 PM UTC
Thank you for the livestream. All my questions were answered. Personally I'm of two minds about it. Alan Lee is the best of the Tolkien illustrators now working, so far as I have seen. (I'd have liked a Pauline Baynes edition done no later than the early Sixties -- later on her work seemed to get a bit too colorful and the eyeshadow on the Elves didn't appeal to me. But imitation Baynes would not be a good idea.) On the other hand, I would fear that his paintings would damage my impressions derived from the text alone. In "On Fairy-Stories" -- as I recall -- Tolkien actually tends to discourage illustrations, preferring that the reader visualize "the Hill" etc. as effected by the text working on his (reader's) own memories, etc. But I do often like Lee's pictures when I see them now and again.

(Then how could Tolkien illustrate The Hobbit, if he's wary of illustrations? I don't actually think he was inconsistent: because his pictures are mostly rather stylized, and also, of course, are the author's own attempt to evoke -- not exactly to photo-represent -- the scenes as he imagined them. Tolkien's drawings for The Hobbit are decorative. They do not suggest someone at large in Middle-earth with a camera.)
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