Alatar wrote:I'm looking at buying it also, but then I came across this:
Can anyone recommend it?
I got the LotR Readers Companion in the post yesterday. Looking forward to reading it! It's a very attractive book apart from anything else. One of the very first things worth mentioning is the cover art which is a Tolkien Illustration, similar to many of his others, which shows the elvish script of another section of the ring verse. The words "Mordor" and "Shadow" are reversed, giving us the line "in the land of Shadows where the Mordor lies". Still, it's nice to see more of the ring verse in Tengwar!
EDIT: My apologies, its actually the Runic letters, not the tengwar that show that line.
It's hard to see here: