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Tolkien R.R.J
The Shire
Feb 13 2018, 10:29pm
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I am looking for a illustrated copy of Lord of the Rings and am leaning towards Alan Lee's version
http://www.tolkien.co.uk/product/9780007525546/The+Lord+of+the+Rings
I am specifically looking for a version that will present middle earth in a realistic non cartoon/fantacy manner. Tolkien viewed middle earth as real history and did not like the normal fantasy/Disney portrayal of "fantasy" books. So i am also looking for any version by artists he generally approved of. Any ideas or suggestions would help, thanks.
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit, eventually I thought I’d better find out what hobbits were like. But that’s only the beginning”
- J.R.R Tolkien
“If you really want to know what middle earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as is, particularity the natural earth”
-J.R.R Tolkien
“If literature teaches us anything at all, it is this that we have in us an eternal element.”
-J.R.R Tolkien
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grammaboodawg
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Feb 14 2018, 3:29pm
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Here are some of my favourites
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While this first one is a bit more animated, it is the first authorized version used for paperbacks. These 3 covers together also became a very popular LARGE poster (which I have on my wall ;)
1965 Ballantine paperback - cover by Barbara Remington (first authorized edition)
This is my all-time favourite cover
1973 Ballantine paperback – cover by J.R.R. Tolkien
1999 Ballantine/Del Rey paperback – cover by Ted Nasmith. This is a really great set of pics. Nasmith is a prolific Tolkien artist.
1999 Houghton Mifflin paperback – cover by Alan Lee. Anything you get by Alan Lee is top knotch. Even the 1-volume editions.
You can find any of these as singles or set on ebay as well as Amazon, Abe Books, Barnes & Noble, etc.
Your best best is to do a Google search on Lord of the Rings books, click on images at the top of the page, and scroll through ALL the variations. It's really very fun :D HAPPY HUNTING!
We have been there and back again.
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6th draft of TH:AUJ Geeky Observations List - November 28, 2013
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TORn's Geeky Observations Lists for LotR and The Hobbit
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