Lord of the Rings: Collector's Ed

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Players also have a chance to find surge foil versions of the Realms and Relics Box Toppers from the original Tales of Middle-earth set. There are also 100 serialized versions of each Realms and Relics card in a double rainbow foil treatment. These are the rarest cards in these boosters and will likely be pretty valuable, especially for cards like Ancient Tomb. Later revised impressions include the 2004 ‘50th Anniversary Edition’ emended text, set in a different typeface ( Birka?). These do not appear to be the 2004 edition: possibly the same as the Houghton Mifflin 2002 illustrated edition?

HarperCollins illustrated hardcover edition, 2020. (See Notes, below, for discussion of similarities between this edition and the emended 2014 three-volume edition.) The Lord of the Rings (‘60th Anniversary Edition’ slipcased set including all three volumes plus 2014 second revised edition of Hammond and Scull’s The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion): Front inner flap and cover: ‘The West of Middle-earth at the End of the Third Age’ (1980 Unfinished Tales map, colourised) Prefatory material includes ‘Note on the Text’ (emended 2004), by Douglas A. Anderson, and ‘Note on the Revised Text’ (2014 revision of 2004 ‘Note on the 50th Anniversary Edition’) by Hammond and Scull. Index revised by Scull and Hammond, 2004 (updated 2014).p. 1150: Index entry for ‘Desolation of the Morannon’: Missing citations for pp. 619, 631, 648, 887. The Lord of the Rings: Hardcover Illustrated Book (Collector's Edition. set of 7 volumes) (Oscar Laureate film Lord of the Rings trilogy original novel)(Chinese Edition) p. 1157: Index entry for ‘Gardner, Holfast’: Should be cross-reference: ‘ see Gamgee, Holfast (Holfast Gardner)’. Hardcover (242 mm × 162 mm); single volume with gold-stamped cover and matching slipcase, 1216 pp., paginated as three separate volumes:

Hardcover (252 mm × 171 mm); single volume with slipcase, 1246 pp. (i–xxviii prefatory; 1–1217 text; 1 pp. addendum) plus 50 colour plates (see Maps & Illustrations, below). Collector’s Edition bound in red leatherette with gold, blue, and green foil stamping; matching red leatherette slipcase. Adverising slip: Specifies ‘revised and updated index’ ( i.e., 2005 index by Scull and Hammond), but index is unrevised, identical to that in 2004 Houghton Mifflin release (below). Facing pp. 428, 462, 474, 492, 508, 538, 552, 574, 616, 634, 648, 662, 680, 712, 726, and 742: colour illustrations by Alan Lee.Translucent plastic slipcase with white text on front cover (author, title, illustrator credit) and rear cover (advertising copy), blue text and images on spine (JRRT monogram, author, title, Ring with inscription, volume titles, publisher logo). Hardcover (240 mm × 165 mm); single volume with slipcase, 1184 pp. (i–xxvi prefatory; 1–1157 text; 1 p. addendum). Addenda (2 pp.): Rohan, Gondor, and Mordor (large-scale map redrawn by Stephen Raw, 1994, emended 2004). Does not include ‘Note on the Text’ by Douglas A. Anderson, unlike most releases of the 1994 HarperCollins edition. There are also some surge foil versions of specific extended-art cards from the original set that can only be found in the Special Edition. Finally, the Special Edition contains the 29 new-to-Magic cards from the Scene Boxes and Tales of Middle-earth Jumpstart Volume 2. Are LotR Special Edition Collector Boosters Worth Buying?

The answer is yes, Tales of Middle-earth Special Edition Collector Boosters have a mixture of new cards and reprints. That said, reprints make up a much larger proportion of the cards found here than new ones. There’s only one slot in each of these boosters for one of the new cards, and there are only 29 new cards that can be found in this set. The rest are reprints. Retroactive ISBNs for this edition were created in 1970, though they are not specific to this impression: pp. i, 20, 51, 82, 113, 129, 161, 177, 192, 208, 225, 257, 287, 303, 319, 335, 352, 366, and 399: colour illustrations by Alan Lee.Prefatory material includes ‘Note on the Text’ (emended 2004), by Douglas A. Anderson, and ‘Note on the 50th Anniversary Edition’ by Hammond and Scull.