Thread: Tolkien's Illustrations present (& not!) in versio..

External Since: Feb 19, 2004 Posts: 5

I'd like to begin a new thread that hopefully will eventually contain
a full list of all illustrations/maps/plans/manuscript pages
reproduced in the various printings/versions of the History of Middle
Earth series. Thus, people who don't have the volumes could find out
some of what they're missing!

I do need some help in this project in that I do not own all the
volumes in this series, and some that I do own do not include the
illustrations (for example, I have the American hardcover printing of
Vol. XII 'The Peoples of Middle-Earth' in which Houghton Mifflin
failed to include the frontispiece).

Once all information concerning this topic has appeared I'll collect
it all into a single file and perhaps one of you fine folks out there
with a Tolkien website can put it up for everyone.

For each volume I'd like to get as much information as possible
concerning different printings - UK, US, foreign (do translations even
exist?), hardcover/trade paperback/mass-market paperback, detail of
dustjacket if present, and anything else anyone would like to include.
And I'd like to know of any editions that DO NOT include the
illustrations (I know that some printings of the mass-market 'The
Shaping of Middle-Earth' do not include the maps!).

For each illustration I think we'd need a title, page on which it
appears, and any pages in the volume which describe the illustration.

I hope some folks out there in Usenetland will help me out!

Cheers,
Michael 'Elentirmo'

External Since: Jan 31, 2004 Posts: 2048

Michael Doyle <gmike.DeleteThis@grex.org> wrote:

> And I'd like to know of any editions that DO NOT include the
> illustrations (I know that some printings of the mass-market 'The
> Shaping of Middle-Earth' do not include the maps!).

Wow! I have the HarperCollins paperback 2002 edition of the Shaping of
ME. It has at least 7 B&W maps in the main body of the book, as well as
2 colour inserts of the two halves of the first Silmarillion map. I hope
they are all there...

Christopher

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