What edition is the best?

The Wizard from Milan · 12-27-2005, 09:16 AM

I probably need to buy a new edition of LotR. What edition do you recommend? and why?

brownjenkins · 12-27-2005, 10:20 AM

i always liked the cheap paperbacks 'cause they are easy to carry around and read... hardcovers are a bit unwieldy... but, if your the sit-down-and-read-in-one-spot-type, this might do you good

durinsbane2244 · 12-27-2005, 08:43 PM

there's a set that're white with drawings of scenes on the cover, and each one has a fold out map in the back...don't know what it's called though...hardcover...

Lotesse · 12-27-2005, 08:48 PM

You know, that gorgeous hardcover looks too nice to refer to & have lying around for everyday use. I got my Lord of the Rings all-in-one paperback which I LOVE. It's published ny Houghton-Mifflin, and it's nice because you can open it & it lays flat - very good quality paper & binding. Plus, of course it has pages of maps. It was only $20 and you can get it at Barnes & Noble or also no doubt online. It's black, with the title in big gold letters with a picture of The Ring on the cover.

mithrand1r · 12-27-2005, 09:29 PM

If you have an opportunity, I would reccommend that you go to a library and see what edition they have on their shelves. If you like it, then it is settled.

You could also drop by a few bookstores.

I think it is a matter of personal taste. I personally would prefer a single edition copy, but three individual books would be easier to hold.

Curubethion · 12-27-2005, 10:13 PM

If you've got the money (about $70) or extremely generous parents

, try the Alan Lee Houghton Miller edition. It's very nice, all-in-one, hardcover....
But a good budget choice would be a simpler hardcover all-in-one like Lotesse has.

The Wizard from Milan · 12-29-2005, 10:53 PM

Thanks to all for the advice!
I am of two minds (or several) and while I try to make up my mind I am reareading my old copy that has completely broken out of the spine

King of The Istari · 01-02-2006, 07:40 AM

I have Simarillion through to return of the king in Black Harper Colins Paperback, they look really good on a bookshelf together

but If I was to get a new one I'd get the 50th aniversarry hardback (that also helps if you wanna knock someone out aswell

... It's MASSIVE)

Mercutio · 01-28-2006, 11:04 PM

Yay for cheap paperbacks!

At our library's annual used book sale (they had thousands of books this year), I bought the Hobbit and the Fellowship for 50 cents a piece (very good/decent quality too, and not very old). I also got 12 other paperbacks brining me to a grand total of $7.

Olmer · 01-29-2006, 12:12 AM

For collection purposes buy 1 editions illustrated by Alan Lee or Ted Nasmith books.They will never go down in price.

For working with text it is better to have regular format's paperbacks.You could make some notes on the book without straining to fit them in little space on book's margin.
Just for reading -any pocketbook size is pretty convenient and also unexpensive

LadyHaleth · 01-29-2006, 02:58 PM

I myself have two editions:
The beautiful red collector's edition (which I lovingly call the Red Book of Westmarch), http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039...lance&n=283155,

and a ratty paperback edition that I've written all over and loved and taped back together numerous times.

So my suggestion would be to get another readable paperback edition, and then to save up and splurge on a beautiful hardcover edition that'll last lifetimes.

12-27-2005, 09:16 AM	#1
The Wizard from Milan Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 421	What edition is the best? I probably need to buy a new edition of LotR. What edition do you recommend? and why?

12-27-2005, 10:20 AM	#2
brownjenkins Advocatus Diaboli Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Reality Posts: 3,767	i always liked the cheap paperbacks 'cause they are easy to carry around and read... hardcovers are a bit unwieldy... but, if your the sit-down-and-read-in-one-spot-type, this might do you good __________________ Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.

12-27-2005, 08:43 PM	#3
durinsbane2244 Dreamweaver Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Misty Mountains, where the spirits go... Posts: 3,560	there's a set that're white with drawings of scenes on the cover, and each one has a fold out map in the back...don't know what it's called though...hardcover... __________________ Lord, what fools these mortals be! ---------------- We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ---------------- Shanti, shanti, shantih...

12-27-2005, 09:29 PM	#5
mithrand1r Cyber Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Left of Rock, Right of Hard Place Posts: 986	If you have an opportunity, I would reccommend that you go to a library and see what edition they have on their shelves. If you like it, then it is settled. You could also drop by a few bookstores. I think it is a matter of personal taste. I personally would prefer a single edition copy, but three individual books would be easier to hold. __________________ Sincerely, Anthony 'Many are my names in many countries,' he said. 'Mithrandir among the Elves, Tharkûn to the Drarves; Olórin I was in my youth in the West that is forgotten, in the South Incánus, in the North Gandalf; to the East I go not.' Faramir What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? Cicero (106BC-43BC)

12-27-2005, 10:13 PM	#6
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	If you've got the money (about $70) or extremely generous parents , try the Alan Lee Houghton Miller edition. It's very nice, all-in-one, hardcover.... But a good budget choice would be a simpler hardcover all-in-one like Lotesse has. __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

12-27-2005, 08:48 PM	#4
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	You know, that gorgeous hardcover looks too nice to refer to & have lying around for everyday use. I got my Lord of the Rings all-in-one paperback which I LOVE. It's published ny Houghton-Mifflin, and it's nice because you can open it & it lays flat - very good quality paper & binding. Plus, of course it has pages of maps. It was only $20 and you can get it at Barnes & Noble or also no doubt online. It's black, with the title in big gold letters with a picture of The Ring on the cover.

12-29-2005, 10:53 PM	#7
The Wizard from Milan Elven Warrior Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 421	Thanks to all for the advice! I am of two minds (or several) and while I try to make up my mind I am reareading my old copy that has completely broken out of the spine

01-02-2006, 07:40 AM	#8
King of The Istari Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Some where quite interesting with psychedelic trees Posts: 124	I have Simarillion through to return of the king in Black Harper Colins Paperback, they look really good on a bookshelf together but If I was to get a new one I'd get the 50th aniversarry hardback (that also helps if you wanna knock someone out aswell ... It's MASSIVE) __________________ So do all who see such times, but that is not for us to decide, all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us Gandalf And what happened to the rest of your party, killed, eaten, gone home? Beorn, The Hobbit Dark and difficult Times lie ahead Harry, soon we must all face a choice, a choice between what is right and what is easy! Dumbledore Neo Are you listening to Me? Or are you too busy looking at the Woman in the Red Dress? Morpheus, The Matrix

01-28-2006, 11:04 PM	#9
Mercutio Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Narnia Posts: 1,656	Yay for cheap paperbacks! At our library's annual used book sale (they had thousands of books this year), I bought the Hobbit and the Fellowship for 50 cents a piece (very good/decent quality too, and not very old). I also got 12 other paperbacks brining me to a grand total of $7. __________________ Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?". Interested in C.S. Lewis? Visit the forum dedicated to one of Tolkien's greatest contemporaries.

01-29-2006, 12:12 AM	#10
Olmer Elf Lord Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: LI-woods, NY Posts: 653	For collection purposes buy 1 editions illustrated by Alan Lee or Ted Nasmith books.They will never go down in price. For working with text it is better to have regular format's paperbacks.You could make some notes on the book without straining to fit them in little space on book's margin. Just for reading -any pocketbook size is pretty convenient and also unexpensive

01-29-2006, 02:58 PM	#11
LadyHaleth Sapling Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6	I myself have two editions: The beautiful red collector's edition (which I lovingly call the Red Book of Westmarch), http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039...lance&n=283155, and a ratty paperback edition that I've written all over and loved and taped back together numerous times. So my suggestion would be to get another readable paperback edition, and then to save up and splurge on a beautiful hardcover edition that'll last lifetimes. __________________ Fiqwit Lives! if you're really good, i'll tell you about the sex lives of sheep *"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." Tolkien*

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