After the Tolkien calendar for The Lord of the Rings (2007) and The Children of Hurin (2008), the 2009 Calendar will focus on The Silmarillion and will feature illustrations from the revised illustration edition by Ted Nasmith. While we celebrated The Silmarillion's 30th anniversary last year, it is great to see it is now in the picture again.

In this article I told a bit more about the artist Ted Nasmith and released a small interview I did with the artist in September 2007 where we talked about the Tolkien Calendar 2009.

Tolkien artist Ted Nasmith

Of course, like we are used from Harper Collins Publishers, there will be published a reprint of the illustrated edition of The Silmarillion. So that one can enjoy the calendar images in large size and have a book with the same images to enjoy the book itself.

This time, it will not a new edition, but a new printing of the same illustrated edition as was published in 2004. The 2004 edition contains more than twice the number of illustrations as the one published in 1998, by the way.

Tolkien Calendar 2009

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