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JRR Tolkien's original illustrations are on display at the Morgan Library in New York City until May 12. A handful are described online in The Economist article describing the exhibit:
This exhibition is a slightly more compact version of last year's at the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford, where Tolkien studied and taught, and where the bulk of his archive is stored. It brings together original manuscripts of "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Silmarillion" with illustrations and maps that take you right inside his Legendarium. Walking through it, you feel as though you're peering over his shoulder in his study, watching an elvish conjuror at work. In Tolkien's hands, fantasy has never seemed more real.
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Exhibition at Morgan Library in New York of Original JRR Tolkien Illustrations
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The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand.
-- Fred Allen
(Score: 2) by black6host on Friday March 15 2019, @05:40AM (1 child)
Now that I'm getting older I find myself nesting more. I'm cooking away and yelling at the kids to get off my lawn. While I bake cookies for them. I think, perhaps, when I've got a nice hot batch of oatmeal raisin cookies to munch on that perhaps I'll curl up with some Tolkien. It's been 40 years or more, it's time.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Friday March 15 2019, @05:48AM
Try the audiobooks with a hot cup of tea and a nice fire. As I age, I find that reading makes me as sleepy as Bilbo when he retired to Rivendale.