The Fireside

  The above image was created by Astral_Taurus on reddit on the tolkienbooks reddit, so first: many thanks for your work, and posting that. This is essentially how I would see an edition of The Hobbit to fit in with the new 'illustrated by the author' series by HarperCollins. This began last year with The Lord of the Rings , and continued this year with The Silmarillion . So, next year would be The Hobbit ....? Going by how the other two titles looked, here's how I envision The Hobbit appearing, and having: - the colour of the foil on the spine, the cover, and page-edging would be bronze, or copper. - the 'main' colour of the book would be a nice, dark, emerald (much like in the photo above). This would also used for the coloured ink inside the book, as well as the ribbon-marker. - the same booklet about The Hobbit that came with the Facsimile Gift Set a few years ago (though perhaps with a different cover image to best suit this release.) - large posters of Thro...