Mister Underhill those covers by John Jude Palencar certainly are striking, clean lines and colors. I wonder if it the original artwork could be watercolor? I saw an another work that I assume is related on the Houghton Mifflin website's
Tolkien page.
Lalwendë, I agree it is fun to see all the different editions that our fellow Downers read. My new set (dare I say it was a ‘birthday present’?) is so beautiful I am afraid to use it. Too precious.
The set is the second edition Houghton Mifflin hardbacks (in the
lotrscrapbook link they appear as last book in the 5th row and first and second in the 6th row.) I have also gotten the hardback copy of
The Hobbit with Tolkien’s artwork on the dust cover. I had not before seen an edition with the red sun that is on this link, though I do remember reading somewhere that Tolkien made note about the possibly.
And how about those covers that seem to be done in charcoal? I certainally can't see them reflecting the colorful tale held within! Frighteningly misleading, I'd say!