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22 November (edited)
2024-11-22 8:54:29 AM UTC
31 current listings on eBay.com so far and another 30 copies sold If all the flippers were excluded would it still be available ?
22 November
2024-11-22 9:50:14 AM UTC

Gerryt wrote:

31 current listings on eBay.com so far and another 30 copies sold If all the flippers were excluded would it still be available ?

Not a chance in my view. This would still be a very low number out of 1.000 and I am sure it would have sold out
22 November
2024-11-22 2:50:01 PM UTC
A comparison with the previous Deluxe Hobbit illustrated by Alan Lee.

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22 November
2024-11-22 3:40:34 PM UTC

Trotter wrote:

A comparison with the previous Deluxe Hobbit illustrated by Alan Lee.

Have you had time to figure out how many new and reworked paintings there are ?
22 November
2024-11-22 6:23:59 PM UTC
Just an FYI for those are have received their copies or are getting them in the coming days, look through them carefully. Mine arrived yesterday (#340). Unfortunately it is missing a section of seven tipped in illustrations in the middle chapters of the book.

I have been in contact with Folio customer service today and am waiting on a response as to how to resolve this. Be sure to check your copies for this issue, hopefully this is a one off and I am the only one. As you can see the pages are present, just no images for the middle seven. Circled in the second image are the illustrations missing.

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22 November
2024-11-22 7:46:04 PM UTC

Mr. Underhill wrote:

Just an FYI for those are have received their copies or are getting them in the coming days, look through them carefully. Mine arrived yesterday (#340). Unfortunately it is missing a section of seven tipped in illustrations in the middle chapters of the book.

I have been in contact with Folio customer service today and am waiting on a response as to how to resolve this. Be sure to check your copies for this issue, hopefully this is a one off and I am the only one. As you can see the pages are present, just no images for the middle seven. Circled in the second image are the illustrations missing.


I had this idea that after all the problems with LotR that Folio and LEGO would have learned something, yet I haven't seen a picture of a fault-free copy yet (though I'm sure they exist -- maybe Trotter's?). I guess at least with your copy, it can be remanufactured and have the illustrations added fairly easily. With the LoTR remanufacturing by Smith-Settle you didn't get the copies back fixed, you got random other "fixed" (i.e. not actually fixed) copies back, so you could end up in a worse situation than you started. Though in the case of 7 missing illustrations, you would be hard pushed to be worse!!!
23 November
2024-11-23 11:56:17 AM UTC
No problems with my copy!

The late Stu wrote:

Tall Hobbit wrote:

Mine has arrived! They have used a different leather this time as you can clearly see.

Any quality problems? Heard reports of issues from two sources so far this morning. My LotR was an absolute ball-ache with replacement/remanufacturing by Smith-Settle -- not really 100% satisfactory in the end - they were clearly repairing some copies and just sending some back out, but they made you send them all back, so in my case I ended up with minor faults on a volume that had no problems on the set I sent back. I won't put up with imperfections a second time round.
23 November
2024-11-23 12:18:40 PM UTC
One thing I will say is although this edition was very expensive, you can't deny in terms of imagery it is absolutely stacked.

I don't actually own the 2020 edition to compare to but in the new Folio LE there are:

•19 chapter heading b&w watercolour images
•27 tipped in illustrated colour pieces and 1 frontispice
•19 extra b&w water colour images within the chapters
•1 new painting of the thrush outside the lonely mountain (endpapers)
•1 painting of Bilbo in mirkwood within the slipcase

Your barely go a few pages without an illustration!

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23 November
2024-11-23 12:28:51 PM UTC
Thanks for this. Definitely getting a copy of the HC deluxe when it comes out next year, even though I missed this one..
23 November
2024-11-23 12:35:49 PM UTC
Looks great, would love to see a good photo of the new cover painting
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