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Originally Posted by Sauron the White
The publishers, which deal with the approval of the Tolkien Estate, should be given some type of award at being the worlds best in squeezing every last dime out of material that has been seen over and over again and paid for over and over again.
Paul Simon wrote and sang "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover". These folks should adopt as their motto "Fifty Ways to sell you the same product over and over and over again".
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Quite - but nobody has to buy it. Everyone who buys this edition knows exactly what they're getting - in this case an investment or a work of Tolkien related art. Whatever you think of HC's/The Tolkien Estate's repeated offering of this tale you can't argue that this won't be a unique one off edition of CoH. HC must have at least half a dozen different editions of LotR & TH in Paperback & hardback both (with a new paperback edition out next April to match the CoH paperback - all with the Lee illustrations). All in all, there will be four different editions of CoH, & two different editions (HB & PB) of UT - less than either LotR or TH. BTW - as far as I'm aware the illustrated LotR paperbacks will be the 50th anniversary text - unlike the Lee illustrated HB which has the older 1992 text, unrevised by Hammond & Scull - so it will be yet another one that collectors will want...(& then, I've no doubt, we'll see a new HB illustrated edition with the 50th ann. text...)
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I see where the 2008 Tolkien Calendar will feature SIL paintings by one of my favorite illustrators - Ted Naismith. Sadly, every painting will be taken from a book which has sat on our shelves for some time now. No new paintings were commissioned. Why spend money when you have a press in the basement ready to turn out newly minted bills at your whim?
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I wondered about that - of course, over the last few years we've seen Hobbit, LotR & CoH calendars, so The Sil was next in line, & if they have some paitings available why not use them - they've only appeared so far in the deluxe special edition HB.
Unless we can draw from the decision to produce a Sil calendar that the next 'super de-luxe' edition will be The Sil, next year?