"Deluxe" Sketchooks

It's also available via Amazon, and other UK booksellers for pre-order. All copies of the boxed set sketchbooks are signed.

insurrbution wrote:
It's also available via Amazon, and other UK booksellers for pre-order. All copies of the boxed set sketchbooks are signed.

Yes, it is widely available (No need to pay more than about £45 for it). I only posted that auction for the images, as it includes actual photos, rather than the renders that have been seen up to now.

Not something I'm buying myself. It isn't tat as such, but I'm just not a fan of this kind of book.

ah fair enough :) The standard edition (of The Hobbit Sketchbook) is good for me - partly because I already own The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook!

insurrbution wrote:
ah fair enough :) The standard edition (of The Hobbit Sketchbook) is good for me - partly because I already own The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook!

That's my view. If I ever pick them up for a browse, I'm happy to get the standard editions (used on eBay most likely). I don't mind Alan's sketches (I actually think they are better than his paintings), but I don't feel the need for a whole book of them unless it is very cheap.

John Howe has one out, Alan Lee now has two.....if more sketchbooks are released, here's what could be neat:

- The Silmarillion Sketchbook by Ted Nasmith (at the very least, feature his original pieces from the 1998 Silmarillion in full colour)

- The Great Tales of Middle-earth Sketchbook by Alan Lee. Would collect all the artwork (incl. calendars, etc.) from The Children of Hurin, Beren and Luthien and The Fall of Gondolin. Between those three books, with pencil sketches and ful-colour illustrations, it could be possible to have content for a book.

Stu wrote:
That's my view. If I ever pick them up for a browse, I'm happy to get the standard editions (used on eBay most likely). I don't mind Alan's sketches (I actually think they are better than his paintings), but I don't feel the need for a whole book of them unless it is very cheap.

I went ahead and ordered the boxed set today (from Book Depository this time, as they have done acceptably in the past for me with packaging and customer service). I never got the sketchbooks separately so this seems like a nicely packaged opportunity to get both and a pretty slipcase.

Urulókë wrote:

Stu wrote:
That's my view. If I ever pick them up for a browse, I'm happy to get the standard editions (used on eBay most likely). I don't mind Alan's sketches (I actually think they are better than his paintings), but I don't feel the need for a whole book of them unless it is very cheap.

I went ahead and ordered the boxed set today (from Book Depository this time, as they have done acceptably in the past for me with packaging and customer service). I never got the sketchbooks separately so this seems like a nicely packaged opportunity to get both and a pretty slipcase.

Yeah, for anyone who collects/enjoys this kind of thing, at £45 from BD, I don't think it is a bad deal relative to the standard editions. The slipcase looks pretty solid.

insurrbution wrote:
John Howe has one out, Alan Lee now has two.....if more sketchbooks are released, here's what could be neat:

- The Silmarillion Sketchbook by Ted Nasmith (at the very least, feature his original pieces from the 1998 Silmarillion in full colour)

- The Great Tales of Middle-earth Sketchbook by Alan Lee. Would collect all the artwork (incl. calendars, etc.) from The Children of Hurin, Beren and Luthien and The Fall of Gondolin. Between those three books, with pencil sketches and ful-colour illustrations, it could be possible to have content for a book.

You are a publishers wet dream