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The crossing guard's nightmare



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.


16-bit hero


Book title: The Fellowship of the Ring
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Film director: Peter Jackson
Crosspatch Artist: Earthworm
Bookdrop location: TBD
Bookdrop date: TBD
Note: Hedgehogs are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, who have from the beginning possessed the art of running swiftly and silently for long stretches, collecting rings as they go and taunting opponents who try to stop them. We know very little about them other than what can be gleaned from mystic runes and vintage TV spots.

Additional Note: This is the second contribution from the 11-year-old Earthworm (with a little help from Fidelia), his first being another video-game-themed cover concerning The Godfather. This is also the first time a moviebook cover has appeared twice in this space. The Fellowship of the Ring featuring Elijah Wood was the volume that inspired the idea of The Cloistered Vandal and was our first vandalized cover.

Frodo's Lament

Book title: The Fellowship of the Ring
Author: J.R.R. Tolkein
Film director: Peter Jackson
Crosspatch Artist: Bracatus
Bookdrop location: Fat Cats Organic Coffee and Desserts, Austin, TX
Bookdrop date: 3/21/2016
Reference: Original (mercifully unavailable) | Non-horrible cover
Note: He stared in astonishment, trying not to believe what he was seeing in the mirror. A brilliant, red, north-star pimple had appeared on his face—his 50-year-old face—right as he was about to meet the queen of the elves. His brain numbed at the injustice his skin and hormones were inflicting upon him. Why this? Why now?

Little did he know two more would follow soon, that they would be epic, and that for centuries, generation after generation would tell tales of them in Middle Earth and beyond.

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