Grognardia surveys The Covers of The Lord of the Rings in the U.S. paperbacks. From the perspective of the UK I don’t recognise any of these, but they probably mean a lot to American readers. But they’re interesting, as I’d never seen the covers for Donald A. Wollheim’s pirated Ace Books paperbacks. The American paperback covers get noticeably worse over the years, with the Barbara Remington / Ballantine covers being the best in a sort of Moomintroll-ish way — though rather puzzling as to what they actually show…