Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s not the first time we’re ever seeing these illustrations. Other tomes have collected Tolkien’s drawings in the past.

HarperCollins will publish a new illustrated edition of The Hobbit for the first time since the fantasy novel’s original publication in 1937. It will feature a gallery of 50 paintings, maps, and ...

A new edition of The Lord of the Rings will feature 30 sketches and illustrations created by JRR Tolkien not seen in previous editions of the book. This new release will be the first time that an ...

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 ...

At first glance, these may look like Russian Orthodox iconography from the Middle ages. But they are actually striking illustrations of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Ukrainian artist Sergei Iukhimov.

It’s hard to imagine a world without Harry Potter or Game of Thrones, but we might be living in it if it weren’t for J.R.R. Tolkien. The author is widely credited with giving birth to the modern ...

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Hobbit Day 2021 looks back at various ‘Lord of the Rings’ related media, such as the Gandalf actor Ian McKellen and the 1964 ‘The Hobbit’ comics. However, JRR Tolkien did not like how Gandalf was ...

On Tolkien Reading Day, a look at the varied landscapes of Lancashire and Oxford that helped shape that of The Lord of the ...

When The Lord of the Rings debuted in 1954 it featured two of author J.R.R. Tolkien‘s illustrations: the Doors of Durin and the Inscription on Balin’s Tomb. None of the numerous editions published ...

With the popularity of Amazon’s The Rings of Power, fans have a renewed interest in J.R.R. Tolkien’s world of Middle-earth. The Lord of the Rings trilogy was first published more than 70 years ago and ...