The Fireside

Earlier today, this limited-edition, numbered, slipcased signed edition was announced. Only 3,000 will be printed! Official description follows below: Presenting two richly illustrated books in one elegant slipcase, this deluxe, limited edition boxed set celebrates in words and pictures the beautiful work that award-winning artist Alan Lee has created for J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Sumptuously bound in full cloth, with a miniature colour image embossed into the front board, each large-format volume overflows with hundreds of delicate pencil drawings and conceptual sketches, and dozens of haunting watercolour paintings, including many brand-new Hobbit paintings and drawings that take us deeper into the magical world of Bilbo Baggins. This very special set unlocks the secret of how Alan creates his own Middle-earth magic and provides a fascinating insight into the imagination of the man who breathed new life into Tolkien...

At long last, The Northerner Diaries  Symphonic Sketches by Jeremy Soule is available to everyone, not just Kickstarter backers! This album is a series of sketches for the Soule Symphony No. 1. which means, as incredible as this music is, it's not the finalized, full product. The 12-track, 54 minute album is available essentially everywhere digitally. You can find it on Spotify here:  https://open.spotify.com/album/1hufHkRXl1TvVwPlfI1XLb?si=fINlhyc2S8WDzkT-ZM-bag  and on iTunes / Apple Music here:  https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/the-northerner-diaries-symphonic-sketches/1405557624 . On other sites and sources (digitally, that is) search either 'Jeremy Soule' or 'The Northerner' and it should come up. Pleas enote that so far on his official facebookbook page, he's only given links to the Spotify and and iTunes (or Apple Music) versions. Jeremy Soule is most famous for the video game soundtracks for Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim . More on this (the finaliz...