You have to think that somehow the publishers at Harper Collins are in the same mood as many Tolkien fans these days. And now that I see the cover they have produced for the special collector's edition a big smile appeared on my face. Here we have a cover that has nothing to do with the movies and shows us a scene of Demsterwold. Above the trees we see the butterflies that Bilbo was lucky enough to see, after climbing up in the trees, leaving the dwarves below in the darkness of the forest.

I must say that this cover looks fantastic and I'm happy to see a minimalistic cover like this. The publishers could have chosen any character or film picture from the first movie, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, but wisely turned away from that. It seems to many that turning The Hobbit into a trilogy was a bridge too far for many and that even big The Lord of the Rings movie fans now feel that Peter Jackson has finally lost his mind.

So here you have it. The cover of the special collector's edition that ties in with the first movie, and we get a cover that could have been made any day... no link to be seen with the movie at all! May I congratulate the publishers since the cover looks just amazing.