I've been looking for some nice paperback copies of LotR (I can't afford the awesome 50th anniversary Hardcovers with Tolkien's art on them), and it's very confusing. It does say 'revised'.ĮDIT: I have another question. I know MM paperbacks usually have more pages, so maybe they added quite a lot for the new version? I just don't understand - if it still doesn't include post-Silmarillion material, what did it add/change? Was it just a re-release to cash in on the movie? (Plus the option to put it back in print, presumably.) I don't know. I got the old 1978 edition in a mass market paperback at a sale - it has 575 pages. It says the new, 2001 trade paperback has 569 pages. Which says that it doesn't include post-Silmarillion material, and that it has been revised in 2001 to coincide with the release of the first movie (according to Amazon, which says 'Del Rey Revised edition (December 4, 2001)'). I believe the first major revision to The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth (by Robert Foster) was published in 1978.
