Eee! I'm trying to imagine what that would be like (like waiting for the next Harry Potter book, I guess, a little bit, but at least those don't end on such nasty cliffhangers).

I don't go back that far, but I remember reading my dad's old copies in the basement - the Ballantine ones, with Tolkien's own watercolors on the cover and that little screed about Ace. I loved the fact that Bored of the Rings parodied that as well.