A book of drawings of Tolkien is published in England

In England, John Ronald Tolkien’s author’s drawings will be published for the first time for his famous story “Hobbit, or back and vice versa,” which will celebrate its 75th birthday in 2012, writes The Guardian .

On October 27, the collection of oil, watercolor and pencil drawings Tolkien will be under the general name “The Art of the Hobbit”. Until the end of the month, a new anniversary edition of the Hobbit should appear.

In the collection, readers will see the author’s sketches of covers, old versions of Middle -earth maps and pages, where the author experiments with runic writing.

The initial author’s version, published in 1937, included about 20 drawings, but the exclusive publisher of Tolkien David Brown from the Harpercollins publishing house, starting preparations for the writer’s anniversary, found more than a hundred images in Oxford, many of which no one had seen before.

“All this shows how far Tolkien’s talent went beyond the limits of literature, and also proves that the author comprehensively worked out the plan of the book,” David Brown said about his collection, “for example, when Tolkien wrote about the hobbistic hole, he painted how it should look like. He was an excellent amateur artist. "