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posted by martyb on Friday March 15 2019, @03:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the images-of-imagination dept.

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 15 2019, @03:40AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 15 2019, @03:40AM (#814642)

     

  • (Score: 2) by black6host on Friday March 15 2019, @05:40AM (1 child)

    by black6host (3827) on Friday March 15 2019, @05:40AM (#814678) Journal

    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

      by hemocyanin (186) on Friday March 15 2019, @05:48AM (#814679) Journal

      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.

  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Friday March 15 2019, @02:21PM (3 children)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Friday March 15 2019, @02:21PM (#814766) Journal

    The article had a few scans of Tolkien's art, so that's something.

    But what I want to know, is when will the public have high quality scans of famous visual art available online, just a quick search away? I have occasionally gone looking, and too often find people are clutching the originals like they're gold. They offer samples that are barely better than thumbnails. Even when the art is out of copyright, as all Van Gogh and Monet paintings are (or should be) now, they still grudge the public a decent scan. You maybe can buy a good scan, for lots of money, and if you promise not to let anyone else have a copy.

    I can understand them saying flashes harm the paintings, and have no problem not using a flash. Last time I was at a museum, they were doing a Van Gogh display, and actually had no issue with people taking photos-- of some of the paintings. But you still can't take a photo of some other Van Gogh's, they say, and the lame reason is that those paintings are privately owned, and only on loan to the museum.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 15 2019, @04:02PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 15 2019, @04:02PM (#814835)

      It's a way to ensure that only those who live in or can travel to big cities maintain their stranglehold on culture. They don't want the unwashed masses to be able to access such information because it helps them maintain their elite and special status.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 15 2019, @05:13PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 15 2019, @05:13PM (#814889)

        those who live in or can travel to big cities

        a.k.a. the bourgeoisie

        (etymologically!)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 15 2019, @05:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 15 2019, @05:56PM (#814918)

      I got to see it MANY years ago.
      No photograph can do justice to it.
      The thickness and iridescence of the paint is amazing.

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