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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Toronto
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See http://www.planet-tolkien.com/board/...arillion-cover for a fan discussion of what I think to be the same illustration, with the same lack of conclusions to the discussion as in this forum. For artistic screw-ups, see this interview with Barbara Remington about how she came to illustrate the covers to the original Ballantine paperback editions of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings without even reading the books: http://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/...Brem+Interview , not her usual practice. |
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Aug 2012
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How I hate referencing my Harper Collins editions in academic work and having to reproduce their ridiculous 'all one word with the last one in italics' publisher title. It looks absurd and unprofessional in my opinion, and doesn't help when one's intention is encouraging people to take the texts seriously.
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Loremaster of Annúminas
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Unwin -> Harper Collins have always been remarkably deferential to Tolkien pere et fils in the matter of book covers. Most publishers never consult the authors and don't give a fig what they think. Certainly that has always been the case with Ballantine/Del Ray (who are a sublicensee of a sublicensee).
Remember what Capitol Records did with the Beatles?
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Curmudgeonly Wordwraith
Join Date: Jun 2007
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