Book title: The Fellowship of the Ring
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Film director: Peter Jackson
Crosspatch Artist: Bracatus
Bookdrop location: TBD
Bookdrop date: TBD
Note: There would seem to be an infinite supply of movie tie-in covers associated with The Lord of the Rings trilogy—particularly with The Fellowship of the Ring—and there is only so much one can say about them. The scene depicted on this particular cover shows Frodo confronting Shelob, which Tolkien called “an evil thing in spider-form." When we showed this cover to the young honorary Crosspatch Earthworm, he scrunched up his face and said, “That doesn’t even happen in that book." Indeed. Shelob appears in the book The Two Towers and in the film The Return of the King, which causes one to wonder if anyone at Random House ever bothered to watch the movies or read the books.