DMRoberts wrote:

Oh, wow, that's a serious cool adaptation of the Book of Mazarbul page to another language and documentary tradition!

The actual content is the beginning part of the Biography's Introduction, and it imitates the format of Classical Chinese. It is very cool

I just notice Temu provides nice price for many Chinese books. For instance, https://www.temu.com/search_result.htm ... _items=101%3A7094%7C0%3A1 Most prices are less than half compared with Amazon.

zionius wrote:

I just notice Temu provides nice price for many Chinese books. For instance, https://www.temu.com/search_result.htm ... _items=101%3A7094%7C0%3A1 Most prices are less than half compared with Amazon.

We buy from Temu all the time, but I never searched for books. I ordered three sets of LOTR from your listing that I didn't already have. China is probably the most prolific publisher of Tolkien's works right now.

Taivo wrote:

zionius wrote:

I just notice Temu provides nice price for many Chinese books. For instance, https://www.temu.com/search_result.htm ... _items=101%3A7094%7C0%3A1 Most prices are less than half compared with Amazon.

We buy from Temu all the time, but I never searched for books. I ordered three sets of LOTR from your listing that I didn't already have. China is probably the most prolific publisher of Tolkien's works right now.

Two more can be found here: https://www.temu.com/search_result.htm ... %AF%B4&search_method=user

As China enters the first year of Tolkien in public domain, so far they have published 8 new editions of LR (9 more are announced), 10 of Hobbit, 3 of short stories. 70% of those are crap though.

Urdu translation of Lord of the Rings, available February 2, 2026. Available for pre-order now.

https://bookcorner.shop/book/LOTR-Collector

Tuor son of Huor. Thank you! I placed my order right away.

Those Urdu books arrived and I'm very impressed with the publication quality. I also noticed that the translator wrote a thank you message on the title page of Fellowship. I assume that all the preordered copies included that. The Book Corner did a great job of shipping this out on the precise day of publication (2 Feb), but there was a mixup on my order at the shipping company and I got another person's order of the Travel Diaries of Ibn Battuta and he got my LOTR. Fortunately (?) he lives in Illinois so the Book Corner manager got right on the problem and arranged for us to exchange our packages directly (by mail, of course) rather than going through the trouble of shipping to and from Pakistan again. The problem was addressed very professionally and efficiently so I couldn't be happier with the service and the books.