Tolkien's Art of The Lord of the Rings -- new book

[Extollager]

http://wayneandchristina.wordpress.com/

For me, this book will simply be a must, to be pre-ordered ASAP.

 

[Boaz]

Just saw this article/blurb/ad/info with eight actual drawings...

 

[Extollager]

My copy's in the mail. I should be able to say something about it soon.

 

[Extollager]

It's out now.

http://www.tolkiensociety.org/2015/10/the-art-of-the-lord-of-the-rings-by-j-r-r-tolkien-published/

Book Hauls!

 

[Extollager]

Beginning to comment:

October 2015: What are you reading?

 

[Extollager]

A little more...

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[Stephen Palmer]

He really was a brilliant watercolourist.

 

[Extollager]

In 1987, I got to see an exhibition of Tolkien's Hobbit art at Marquette University in Milwaukee. It was particularly thrilling to behold the alpine landscape of "Bilbo Woke Up with the Early Morning Sun in His Eyes." I was intrigued by a sketch that wasn't used in the published book, showing a hill under a brooding sky, with red ink for the trolls' distant fire.

 

[Extollager]

I continue with The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien:

November 2015: What Are You Reading?

 

[Extollager]

I wish for a larger reproduction of the first Middle-earth map here, and remark on a discarded idea for an illustration, found in the manuscripts:

November 2015: What Are You Reading?