As part of the 75th anniversary celebrations of J.R.R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit, never seen before sketches and drawings from the author have been released. As part of the process of writing the ...

A swath of JRR Tolkien's original illustrations for The Hobbit are to be published for the first time this week as part of celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of the book's publication. The ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. In addition to writing the epic fantasy series The Lord of the Rings ...

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J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973), “The Shores of Faery, 10 May 1915,” watercolor, black ink, pencil (Tolkien Trust, MS,Tolkien Drawings 87, fol. 22r., © The ...

Writing convincing fantasy fiction is harder than it looks, argued J.R.R. Tolkien in an essay in 1947. Any old writer, he said, could describe a “green sun”. Many of them could even imagine it. But ...

Two related images from The Book of Ishness, a sketchbook of abstract paintings that Tolkien began while he was an undergraduate at Exeter College, Oxford. The images date from early 1914 when Tolkien ...

The show is a fan letter to Tolkien from the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, which organized it, and delivered by the Morgan Library in its characteristically elegant way. It’s mostly ...

The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit author was also a gifted illustrator, creating abstract and subtly beautiful works of art The film series of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit is unlikely to come anywhere near ...