Mr. Underhill wrote:

Emilien wrote:

Was also thinking about one thing : the spine now matches the cloth deluxe illustrated series (UT, S, Complete Guide of Middle Earth), with the same device.

I'd say that's a stretch to call this LoTR matching with those other volumes.

It seems pretty similar to me.
(the same line separator between author and titles. With the diamond device. (As per the pictures showed, the new Lord of the rings books use it as a counter for the different volumes : 1 diamond for book 1, two for book 2, etc...)

Emilien wrote:

Was also thinking about one thing : the spine now matches the cloth deluxe illustrated series (UT, S, Complete Guide of Middle Earth), with the same device.

I completely agree

I do like the look of those cloth-bound Sil/UT/Complete Guide hmm...

But they will not have a slipcase.

Now I'm conflicted!

What do you mean? The deluxe editions of Ted Nasmith illustrated Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales and The Complete Guide have slipcases….

Eye_of_the_Black_Tower wrote:

What do you mean? The deluxe editions of Ted Nasmith illustrated Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales and The Complete Guide have slipcases….

Talking about the book's spine only...

Rosshm said ‘but they will not have a slipcase.’

They already do.

Eye_of_the_Black_Tower wrote:

Rosshm said ‘but they will not have a slipcase.’

They already do.

I guess by 'they will not have slipcase', rosshm16 spoke about the upcoming Lord of the rings books Limited edition (housed in a clamshell), not the clothbound illustrated series.

Eye_of_the_Black_Tower wrote:

Rosshm said ‘but they will not have a slipcase.’

They already do.

I think the point is that the Clamshell books do not have a slipcase, not that the (clearly) slipcased editions don't.

It kind of makes them matching fairly moot as they aren't ever going to sit next to each other with the spines facing out on the shelf.

It is the same with the first deluxes (1969-1981) : LotR (first and second printings) was issued in a slipcase, then The Hobbit and Poems and stories in a box (and then LotR issued in a box to match). But technically it doesn't prevent their spine from matching, from a pure design perspective. But agreed few of this new limited books will sit directly to the other clothbounds, unless the clamshell and drawers are put away for being unpractical in the long term.

Emilien wrote:

Mr. Underhill wrote:

Emilien wrote:

Was also thinking about one thing : the spine now matches the cloth deluxe illustrated series (UT, S, Complete Guide of Middle Earth), with the same device.

I'd say that's a stretch to call this LoTR matching with those other volumes.

It seems pretty similar to me.
(the same line separator between author and titles. With the diamond device. (As per the pictures showed, the new Lord of the rings books use it as a counter for the different volumes : 1 diamond for book 1, two for book 2, etc...)

Oh sure, I agree with you that the font on the spine is the same, but that's where the matching ends. There's just nothing else about them that matches to those other three volumes.