Silmarillion Speculation: The Finer Points

 

Now that I've provided the ISBN and the news that The Silmarillion illustrated edition will be joining - and completing - The Tolkien Illustrated Collection: Ver. 2, it's time for me to ponder some of the finer points about this edition in both standard hardback and collector's edition formats.

- which illustrations will be included, and which new ones will there be?
- which image would be used on the rear of the dustjacket for the standard edition?
- what colour would be used for the book, ink, and ribbon marker? For Unfinished Tales, it was blue. Would blue be used again, or another colour?
- For the collector's edition, which image would be used to wrap around the slipcase?
- For the collector's edition, which image would be stamped onto the book itself? I've noticed that the image that appears on the rear of the Unfinished Tales standard edition's dustjacket was used as the front cover to the collector's edition.
- For the collector's edition, which other goodies would be included? For Unfinished Tales, we got a double-sided map, and an art print of the image used as the cover to the standard edition. Based on this, we could expect a map of Beleriand and the Lands to the North for the map (there's only one map for The Silmarillion) and a print of Ted Nasmith's 'Ships of the Faithful', which is used for the standard edition's front cover.
- can we we expect the 2022 calendar to be 'themed' around this publication? If yes, perhaps A Middle-earth Traveller would be the theme of the 2023 calendar....

All will be answered closer to when the book is published - and those that have ordered it receive their copies. It's fun to speculate until then, though.

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