The Hobbit as JRR Tolkien imagined it
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This drawing is demonstrably set at night, the dragon a stark white against a jet-black sky. Although this and The Lonely Mountain are more finished drawings, neither seems to have been offered to Allen & Unwin for publication – because they were made too late, perhaps, or because they contain varied greys or dense blacks not well suited to line-blocks Photograph: JRR Tolkien, courtesy of the Tolkien estate
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I always loved Tolkien’s illustrations. Something slightly Japanese about them, but still completely individual. I can’t...
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