Interesting that they are flipping the title of the work and the author's name on the spine from the other two volumes

JRR Tolkien
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Unfinished Tales

to

Guide to Middle-earth
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Robert Foster

I would guess that is because Tolkien's name is not on the spine, only the monogram.

Mr. Underhill wrote:

Interesting that they are flipping the title of the work and the author's name on the spine from the other two volumes

JRR Tolkien
--{}{}{}---
Unfinished Tales

to

Guide to Middle-earth
--{}{}{}---
Robert Foster

Makes sense. You read from top to bottom. Most people won't know who Robert Foster is, so the key thing to read is the bit with "Middle-earth" in it, whereas with the others "Tolkien" is the selling point.

Stu wrote:

Mr. Underhill wrote:

Interesting that they are flipping the title of the work and the author's name on the spine from the other two volumes

JRR Tolkien
--{}{}{}---
Unfinished Tales

to

Guide to Middle-earth
--{}{}{}---
Robert Foster

Makes sense. You read from top to bottom. Most people won't know who Robert Foster is, so the key thing to read is the bit with "Middle-earth" in it, whereas with the others "Tolkien" is the selling point.

Makes sense, to your earlier point, I do hope the green ends up being a bit darker than this mock up.

Stu wrote:

This is sooner than I expected. Looking forward to this. Glad they have experience with this format, so they are likely to do a reasonable job (though until the green isn’t proven to be dayglo…)

Maybe it will be released in a lovely orange colour..

Any word on whether there'll be an ebook?

I always thought it odd we have Tyler's book but not Foster's.

Starting to see some price movement on the Deluxe, Speedyhen have it listed for £63.37, but no pre-order as yet https://www.speedyhen.com/Product/Robe ... efinitive-Guide-/27508795

Will probably order if I see it for less than £60 for sale.

Ecthelion wrote:

I wonder if it has been updated with Silmarillion and UT material or if this has already been done before...

The Complete edition of 2003 was H to S, no UT.

Appears the release date has been pushed back about a month to September 1st...it's almost like there is something else happening around that time

Have ordered both of these from Awesome books, who do World-Wide shipping.

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