{"id":79960,"date":"2013-10-02T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T22:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=79960"},"modified":"2013-10-02T12:27:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T17:27:07","slug":"new-illustrated-edition-of-the-hobbit-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/10\/02\/79960-new-illustrated-edition-of-the-hobbit-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"New illustrated edition of The Hobbit now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Yesterday saw not only the launch of the new <em>The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug<\/em> trailer, but also another exciting release for Tolkien fans &#8211; the publication of the latest edition of the book which started it all!\u00a0 You may remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/09\/02\/78138-jemima-caitlin-on-illustrating-the-hobbit\/\" target=\"_blank\">TORn&#8217;s post about Jemima Catlin<\/a>, the young illustrator behind the first new illustrated edition of <em>The Hobbit<\/em> since Alan Lee&#8217;s iconic version in 1997.\u00a0 (Catlin is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/05\/31\/72346-another-smaug-to-enjoy-and-a-calendar-and-new-hobbit-edition-to-preorder\/\" target=\"_blank\">the featured illustrator for the 2014 Tolkien Calendar<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>This book is now available for purchase in the US!\u00a0 (It was released by HarperCollins in the UK in September.) \u00a0It&#8217;s a beautiful edition.\u00a0 The hardcover, with cloth binding, is charmingly old fashioned, and the cover illustrations have gold accents, which shimmer with the promise of the magic contained within.\u00a0 Catlin&#8217;s images are a combination of pencil, ink and watercolour; there are many little pictures decorating the text, as well as more than ten full page, full colour pieces.\u00a0 The story is interpretated in lively, delightful drawings which show a new interpretation of old friends.<\/p>\n<p>This is an edition to treasure,\u00a0and would particularly be a wonderful introduction to <em>The Hobbit<\/em> for children.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great reminder\u00a0that, as spectacular as the movies are, the enchantment began in the pages of a fabulous book.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re thinking about holiday shopping already, add this to the list!\u00a0 I for one feel I can never have too many editions of <em>The Hobbit<\/em>; this beautiful new edition is certainly worth adding to your collection.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0544174224\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0544174224&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=theoneringnet\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to order the new illustrated edition of The Hobbit<\/a>.]\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062287354\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0062287354&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=theoneringnet\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to order the 2014 Tolkien Calendar<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday saw not only the launch of the new The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug trailer, but also&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1362,163,1192,1365,7,153,18,1359,148,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-merchandise-books","category-calendars","category-calendars-shop","category-hobbit-book","category-tolkien-life","category-merchandise","category-shop","category-hobbit","category-tolkien"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/The-Hobbit-illustrated-by-Jemima-Catlin-221x300.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-kNG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79960"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79966,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79960\/revisions\/79966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}