Check Out The One Ring 2E’s Cover Art!

lyle.spade · Jul 18, 2019

Caption: "Quick, let the big people do the fighting while we run away!"

GrahamWills · Jul 18, 2019

lyle.spade said:
Caption: "Quick, let the big people do the fighting while we run away!"

Contrast with MERP 2E's cover:

Both quite pretty however -- definitely look forward to seeing this new edition on my bookshelf

Hurin70 · Jul 18, 2019

I don't have my LotR books with me, but can anyone remind me what chapter it was when Gimli got his reassignment surgery?

dave2008 · Jul 18, 2019

Hurin88 said:
I don't have my LotR books with me, but can anyone remind me what chapter it was when Gimli got his reassignment surgery?

That is not the "Fellowship" in that picture so I am betting that is not Gimli

GMMichael · Jul 18, 2019

There are no dwarf-women. Dwarves just spring out of the ground.

Ramaster · Jul 18, 2019

dave2008 said:
That is not the "Fellowship" in that picture so I am betting that is no Gimli

Yeah, but while all the others are generic enough, those two "fellows" front and center sure look a lot like Bilbo and Gandalf. Check out their weapons!

Not complaining, though. This is an awesome piece.

dave2008 · Jul 18, 2019

Ramaster said:
Yeah, but while all the others are generic enough, those two "fellows" front and center sure look a lot like Bilbo and Gandalf. Check out their weapons!

Agreed, but the others clearly are not. The hobbit is fairly generic, except it's weapon certainly is reminiscent of Sting.

Enevhar Aldarion · Jul 18, 2019

Ramaster said:
Yeah, but while all the others are generic enough, those two "fellows" front and center sure look a lot like Bilbo and Gandalf. Check out their weapons!

Not complaining, though. This is an awesome piece.

Well, that is probably Gandalf. Same as with the cover for Adventures in Middle-Earth. Maybe something in their deal to use the IP requires Gandalf to be illustrated on some of the covers.

BronzeDragon · Jul 18, 2019

DMMike said:
There are no dwarf-women. Dwarves just spring out of the ground.

You haven't read Appendix A to the Lord of the Rings, have you?

There are dwarven women, but they are rare and stay underground.

I agree there shouldn't be a dwarven woman adventurer on the cover, since that would constitute a breach of canon to rival the ridiculous elven-dwarven romance in the Hobbit movies.