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Originally Posted by johnboy3434
Just a quick question: I noticed on Amazon.co.uk (while I live in America, new copies of The Road Goes Ever On are hard to come by on this side of the pond) that a printing of the Silmarillion was released in July 2006 that is said to contain a "preface" by Tolkien the elder. Is this something new, or is it the same letter to Milton Waldman they've been printing for the past 8 years? If anyone happened to buy it or look through it at the bookstore, I'd like to know if it us American fans were missing something (although I suppose that would be justice, since we get video games so much earlier than you).
Oh, and another question: Is there anything new in that huge three-volume History of Middle-earth set? Like a new forward or something?
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Same old same old. The 2006 Sil is the revised second ed. with the Waldman letter & there's nothing new in the 3 vol HoM-e. The Sil edition is much better quality in terms of production & materials used than Harper-Collin's previous editions & is part of a uniform edition of Tolkien's M-e works (3 vol. LotR, Sil, UT & forthcoming Hobbit 70th anniversary) with matte dustjackets showing Tolkien's original paintings. I've read there may be a new foreword by CT for the 70th anniversary Hobbit...