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These two I can't wait for:

http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/998-The_Art_of_The_Hobbit.php

http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/991-A_Tolkien_Tapestry.php

This is for the scholars here:

http://lingwe.blogspot.com/2011/01/bones-of-ox.html

Also, didn't know if anyone else knew, but the 2012 calendar will also feature Cor Blok!

http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/988-Tolkien_Calendar_2012_Cor_Blok.php

I love Cor Blok!!
 
I really enjoy my current Tolkien calendar; Blok's work is so emotive and simple. I love the way the hobbits almost look like little bells. So I'm glad to see more work from him next year.
 
I would love to see the comics adaptation collected that was produced by Rankin-Bass character designer Lester Abrams in the 1970s for Children's DIgest. Unfortunately, I don't think that it covered the entire book.

It would also be nice to see a collection of the illustrated and condensed Hobbit that was adapted for Princess magazine in the 1960s. Truthfully, though, I'm more interested in the Abrams material.
 
Here is a somewhat fresher and more professional announcement than the one on my blog (not that I'm not grateful for that link too):

Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays, edited by Jason Fisher

Here's the complete table of contents —
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface / Jason Fisher
  • Introduction: Why Source Criticism? / Tom Shippey
  • Source Criticism: Background and Applications / E. L. Risden
  • Tolkien and Source Criticism: Remarking and Remaking / Jason Fisher
  • The Stones and the Book: Tolkien, Mesopotamia, and Biblical Mythopoeia / Nicholas Birns
  • Sea Birds and Morning Stars: Ceyx, Alcyone, and the Many Metamorphoses of Eärendil and Elwing / Kristine Larsen
  • “Byzantium, New Rome!” Goths, Langobards, and Byzantium in The Lord of the Rings / Miryam Librán-Moreno
  • The Rohirrim: “Anglo-Saxons on Horseback”? An Inquiry into Tolkien’s Use of Sources / Thomas Honegger
  • William Caxton’s The Golden Legend as a Source for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings / Judy Ann Ford
  • She and Tolkien, Revisited / John D. Rateliff
  • Reading John Buchan in Search of J.R.R. Tolkien / Mark T. Hooker
  • Biography as Source: Niggles and Notions / Diana Pavlac Glyer and Josh B. Long
  • About the Contributors
  • Index
I'm also happy to let people know that the book includes quotations from previously unpublished letters as well as from Tolkien's unpublished lecture notes on the Goths and Huns (printed with the kind permission of the Tolkien Estate). It's not a huge amount of new primary material, but if you're like me, then any new primary material is of great interest!
 
...a few critical books to be published in the mid-term future as well, ioncluding Dr. Corey Olsen's Exploring the Hobbit, Prof. Michael Drout's The Tower and the Ruin, and according to Olsen, Dr. John D. Rateliff is working on a book about Tolkien's creative methods, whatever that entails. Sounds exciting. Olsen's book is slated for a September 2012 release, and Drout's "late 2012 or early 2013" (personal correspondence). Rateliff's I'm not sure about, possibly around the same time...
 
Any list of upcoming scholarly books about Tolkien would be incomplete without mentioning Verlyn Flieger's forthcoming new book, Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien. Verlyn is, in my humble opinion, second to none in her insights about Tolkien's work, and any new work from her is a reason to celebrate. Here's a link to a post about it at visualweasel's "Lingwe" blog: http://lingwe.blogspot.com/2011/02/verlyn-fliegers-forthcoming-collection.html

I am also looking forward to John Rateliff and Michael Drout's new books, and of course, to the exciting new collection on Tolkien source studies by our own visualweasel. As well as several other books on the horizon.
 
There's an illustrated edition of TH, based on the Rankin Bass cartoon. Here's a link to a site which has several examples for sale:

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=tolkien&bi=0&bx=off&ds=30&kn=abrams&recentlyadded=all&sortby=17&sts=t&x=0&y=0
 
...which includes cell art from the animated movie. That's not what I was referring to, Several years before the TV movie, Lester Abrams (possibly paired with a scripter) drew an comics adaptation of at least one or more chapters from The Hobbit for the magazine Children's Digest. That is what I'd like to see collected.
 
...is a highly regarded Tolkien critic. So far he hasn't produced the standard monologue, but he is well regarded for his incisive, perspicacious essays. The Tower and the Ruin will apparently consist of a personal "reader response" critical approach to the whole of Tolkien's ouvre, much as he did in his essay in the anthology "The Silmarillion: 30 Years On"
 
I've been corresponding with Prof. Drout for several years (as you have been) actually, but I hadn't heard about TT&TR. Sounds interesting, thanks! I'm a big fan of his scholarly edition of Tolkien's Beowulf lecture & I've been hoping for his edition of Tolkien's prose Beowulf translation. I'll be sure to check out TT&TR when it is released!
 
Drout is publishing a fully revised second edition of Beowulf and the Critics. It was supposed to be out by now (it was in press last September), but there have evidently been some delays. You know how scholarly publishing works. The latest update is July 2011 — er, which is now; we'll see. I like the new cover! Here's the publisher's announcement.
 
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Drout is really interesting, I absolutely cannot wait for his monograph - Malveth the Eternal there is some information about it on Drout's blog (which hasn't been contributed to since April). I'm glad Drout has revised Beowulf and the Critics - although it is not so interesting to me it is useful to have an informative edition of Tolkien's thoughts on Beowulf on print. I greatly enjoyed Rateliff's History of the Hobbit, so I'm hoping his book comes out soon as well, although I don't know much more about it than that!
 
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