Why You Should Consider the Deluxe Middle-earth Guide

[Barliman]

Deluxe edition due for release Sept 1, 2022.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Will this be of the third revised edition from 2003, I wonder, or a new 4th?

 

[1stvermont]

You have got to be kidding me, of all the ways to steal my money. Now even Foster is doing it.

 

[Olorgando]

Will this be of the third revised edition from 2003, I wonder, or a new 4th?

I already have the 2003 edition (illustrated by Ted Nasmith), which looks very much like a companion to my 2002 three-volume (continuously paginated) edition of LoTR, illustrated by Alan Lee (though the copyright of the Alan Lee illustrations is given as 1991). At over 500 pages in the same format, it tops even RoTK by over 90 pages. That brick looks like a one-volume-edition of LoTR!. Unless it's a seriously different format from the 252 by 200 millimeters (about 10 by 8 inches) of my 2003 edition, they must have stuffed it with - well, what? 🤨

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Looks like there will be the usual two editions; I assume this will be the "regular" edition, due in August:

Both are listed as having 512 pages:

Robert Foster, The Complete Guide to Middle-earth 2022

New editions of Robert Foster, The Complete Guide to Middle-earth illustrated by Ted Nasmith Standard hardback (1st September 2022) A peerless A–Z gui...

www.tolkienguide.com

 

[Olorgando]

Looks like there will be the usual two editions; I assume this will be the "regular" edition, due in August:
Both are listed as having 512 pages

My 2003 edition has 514 pages, plus Roman numerals up to 12 (xii) at the beginning.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Here's a review by the Tolkien Guide guy, with a video interview with Foster and Naismith:

Tolkien Collector's Guide

J. R. R. Tolkien Collecting guides, forums, articles, and news. A database of Tolkien related collectibles, rare items, ephemera. A community of like-minded collectors who share ideas, trade, and stay informed of interesting Tolkien related news.

www.tolkienguide.com

 

[Elthir]

I prefer my "A Guide to Middle-Earth" by Robert Foster, Ballantine Books, cover price $1.50
copyright 1971 (paperback version, published before the Silmarillion was published).

🐾

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

But, that one isn't Complete.

 

[Elthir]

Ah but it is to me, as it covers author-published work

 

[Ent]

AHA. So you see, what's "complete" for one is not "complete" for another.
Again I can't help but recall "Bert and Ernie" always enjoying 'the same things in different ways.'

Anyway, I found myself dismayed that I did not have ANY "Foster" in my collection by some fluke or other.
I just resolved that little issue...!
Thanks.