This is a weekly meme created by Books by Proxy, but currently run by Lynn’s Book Blog.
“A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.”
This weeks theme: A cover featuring a king
My Choice: The Return of the King
There are over 450 different editions of The Return of the King so I picked the 20 most rated editions on Goodreads, plus a couple other random covers that caught my eye!
Covers:
Del Rey 2003 | HarperCollins 1999 | Houghton Mifflin 1994 | Houghton Mifflin 2012
Mariner Books 2005 | Mariner 2003 | Houghton Mifflin 1988 | Minotauro 2006
Metis Yayınları 1996 | Ballantine Books 1973 | HarperCollins 2012 | Martins Fontes 2001
J.G. Cotta’sche 2001 | HarperCollins 2001 | HarperCollins 1997 | Ballantine Books 1984
Houghton Mifflin 2001 | Unwin Paperbacks 1981 | HarperCollins 2008 | Ballantine 1986
Uitgerverij 2002 | Klett Cotta 2012 | Christian Bourgois 1991 | Nhã Nam 2014
Pocket 1991 | Norstedts 2012 | Uitgeverij M 2003 | Gondolat 1981
Amber 2009 | Pocket 2006 | Quality Paperback 1995 | Κέδρος 1995
HarperCollins 2013 | HarperCollins 2003 | Gramedia Pustaka 2016 | BBC 1981
Least Favorites:
I really just don’t like the lime green circle!
Favorites:
This is super hard! There are a lot of covers that I like!
Winner:
Perfectly Tolerable 
So many good covers! The Martins Fontes cover caught my eye😁
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I love the colors of that one!! ❤
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I love some of the cleaner simpler designs. The HarperCollins 2013 is nice!
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That one is awesome! That was probably my fourth favorite haha
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Harper Collins 2012, which was one of your favorites is the one that caught my eye. I am glad you did not pick one that was from the movie.
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Haha I am not usually a movie cover person, though I do love Viggo Mortensen so I don’t mind those covers, but they are definitely not my favorites!
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I agree totally, I also love Viggo Motensen, but I just can’t go with a movie tie-in cover.
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Ballantine Books 1973 ’cause that was the edition I first bought and read when I was 10.
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Thats awesome!!! I am always partial to the covers I own 🙂
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I love how Mariner 2003 is just a random closeup shot of Viggo Mortenson’s face 😀 And I’d have to go with HarperCollins 2013. It looks so clean and pretty!
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Haha right! 😂 It could be worse tho! At least Viggo Mortenson is good looking 😂😂 And I like that one too!
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I got to go with my instinct here and admit I prefer the ones with Viggo on the cover 🙂
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Haha I definitely don’t mind those ones 😉
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Hm. I’m with bookbeachbunny – it’s Viggo alllll the way. Nothing to do with the book design and a LOT to do with the fact that I think he’s gorgeous…
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Haha he really is ❤ I don't mind those covers!
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Neither do I:))
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My favorite is Uitgevrij!
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Thats a good one too!
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I like the one with the Eye of Mordor on it. 🙂
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I liked that one too 🙂
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Ooh what a great line up of covers! I like the second and third ones, also the Houghton Mifflin 1988 cover and the Metis Yayinlari ’96 one as well. The Ballantine one is the cover I had when I first read them so that one is partial to me, even if it’s not very distinctive.
The Norstedt and Harper Collins 2008 are nice as well. Even the Ballantine ’84- not exactly how I picture Aragorn lol, but I still like it in that vaguely throwback 80’s fantasy cover way haha!
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Haha so basically you like a lot of the covers!! You are the second person who has said they owned the Ballantine edition. I think I own one of the movie tie in covers. Obviously the cover I own didn’t make that great of an impression because I can’t even remember which one I have!
I really liked the Houghton Mifflin 1988 too, but it is kind of subtle and not very eye catching compared to the others. If I wanted a nice collector’s edition I would probably get that one, but for reading and enjoying the cover I like some of the others better!
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Wow, I had no idea there were so many covers for this book. I really like the Houghton Mifflin 1988, but I also agree with those who are drawn to the Viggo covers, lol.
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I really liked that cover as well! I debated putting it in as one of my favorites, but it is too subtle when looking at a small picture of it and not as eye catching as some of the others
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We’re book twins! I chose this but went for the blue collector’s edition. TBH – I was a tad lazy and only checked out the first couple of pages so I didn’t even see your favourite – which is gorgeous.
Lynn 😀
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I really liked the blue collector’s edition one too! It was fourth on my list haha so it barely didn’t make my favorites. I tried to do only the first few pages, but I was so anxious about missing a really good one that I ended up looking through most of them 😂
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Oh, I really love that cover for it! It’s simple and yet conveys so much about the story. 🙂
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Right?!?! I thought so too ❤
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