Earl wrote:
Roverandom is already in Tales From The Perilous Realm, right?

As for Letters and Mr. Bliss, the current paperbacks/hardbacks have more pages than Kullervo if my recollection is correct.

So it is conceivable they could get the deluxe treatment. All speculation :)

True about the Harry Potter editions - those are just sad :-/

Make the text big enough and anything is possible...

Lol, true that

Ewwwwwww!!! This has to be the most uninspired of all the motifs in the deluxe series.

Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Hist ... collsguid-21&linkCode=osi

I am sorely disappointed. They could have easily come up with a nice motif based on Tolkien's many art pieces. How terrible! :(

Edit: Also, the spine does not match the rest of the books. Whoever approved this design?

Earl wrote:
Ewwwwwww!!! This has to be the most uninspired of all the motifs in the deluxe series.

Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Hist ... collsguid-21&linkCode=osi

I am sorely disappointed. They could have easily come up with a nice motif based on Tolkien's many art pieces. How terrible! :(

Just looks like an updated version of the existing trade box but with a bit of added "fluff". Pointless release and considering that the original box is littered with errors I would be won over with a totally revamped and updated version. But alas, I have more than enough HoME volumes.

Let's hope it's just a temporary placeholder image...

Individual Slips for each volume, ideally with slightly different shades of gray/grey for each volume. Then if you want to give us a larger slipcase for the 3 volumes like they did with the 4 and 5 book deluxe collections, sure.

But I'd rather have individual slips for each volume and miss out on the larger one for consistency. I'd be much more tempted to pick this up if that was the only change from the 2002 set (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0007105088 ... collsguid-21&linkCode=osi).

I suspect this is essentially just a replacement for the existing "standard" HoME boxed set. Same thing, with some (different) paper covering.

I don't see the point (especially if the spine design doesn't match the deluxe series-- though these early renders are not always accurate).

Individually slipcased volumes, I'd almost see the point. I think I'll be sticking with my 2000 India paper editions.

The way we tell a publisher if something is worth having or not having is by buying or not buying, so I think the key is resist the need to be completist if the product isn't in-and-of-itself a worthwhile purchase (and of course, coversely, snapping up the good stuff).

I thought I'd be quite interested in this set, but if that's roughly what it's going to look like and that is the price then there is no way I'll be buying this set.

BH

Even something like this (excuse crappy 10 minute render) would look better...

And a front board...