History of Middle-earth Box Set 2 - REVIEW

Box Set 2

Box Set 1

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[thebrowneyesofmandalore]

What I love about the classic book covers is that they give off a very regal look. But I agree that John Howe’s work is too much to cover up.

[nikkik]

I’ve always found the battles for Beleriand and 1st age tales more epic than the latter ages, maybe because I didn’t know much about the earlier stuff before I started watching NOTR, credit to you Matt keep up the good work 👍

[tr]

you should totally do a tolkien collection video

[pspboy]

I love John Howe's art! He knew how to depict Tolkien's world!

[adamswierszcz]

That Ulmo art is superb. Thanks for the video, Matt. Great as always

[nicholasczech]

Had received mine today as well, Incredible and worth the money. Looks remarkable on the shelves. Hope everyone can snag also the Maps of Middle Earth to. Which includes 4 fold-out maps by John Howe himself.

[colinleat]

I love the Art of my fellow Canadian John Howe! He's a huge influence in my own Fantasy Illustrations. I'm embarrassed to say I haven't read The History of Middle Earth...yet. My summer reading list 😉. 🤘😎🖖🇨🇦🕊️

[Epic_Kingdom]

Cool! I can't wait to get this set!
Also, happy birthday, my friend! 🎉

[DoctorMckay]

Today is one of the happiest days in my life.

I've been trying to complete the History of Middle Earth collection in the old spanish print of these books for the last 10 years.
Minotauro, the spanish distributor, has not reprinted them since the late 2000s. I'm only missing The War of the Jewels.


Now that I know they are reprinting them in english I'll probably sell all my spanish copies to collectors and buy the new prints.


It is damn time I had the entire collection.

(Did not buy the print on demand versions from Harper Collins because the covers were kinda dull)

[Pixellated-kbvx]

Those books look amazing for collecting, I'm glad they made new versions! I was wondering if you could do an updated vid on minecraft Middle-Earth?

[VoiceoftheRings]

Amazing!!!! They look so good next to each other! Thanks for reviewing them, Matt!

[johngerardi]

Matt--is the Amandil-Elendil dialogue content you mention starting around 8:50 also in the Fall of Numenor book that was just published last year?

[Pickle]

Does it look like the letter print has improved at all? That was the one downside i found with the first set is that the letters look zoomed in and smooth and filler in.
One comment i saw described it was the paperback print stretched to fill the fuller size page, which i could see it being.

[NevsBookChannel]

Great video! I’m currently reading volume 4 so I was curious to see if the eastern and western expansion maps would be reproduced any better in these new editions compared to my paperback. Doesn’t look like it. The eastern extension is still illegible!

[JezzLundkvist]

Gosh I need to get my hands on these box sets!

[neilbakshi]

Strangely enough, the first two of those three covers are actually sort of...my least favorite John Howe images. Oh well. The cover for Volume 6 is really cool.

[stevenboettcher]

Those books look beautiful. I have the original hardcovers. The Book of Lost Tales Vol 1 was my first Tolkien book. The Lost Road was my favorite of the early books. I'm interested to see what Volume 3 will look like. Original the covers had brilliant artwork by Alan Lee and not the single color covers.

[MastinoNapoletano]

I have all of these on my amazon wishlist. Thanks for the review. Hope all is well! God bless!

[TheTableOfDurin]

Amazing book covering, always great to see new book versions 😊

[michaelminch]

I have Box Set One. My only complaint is that the pages are thinner than I would like. I'm keeping mine with the John Howe art showing. That's pretty much the whole reason for this set. I already have that 3-volume set that was published a few years ago, which I now need to re-home.