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 ...

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.

“In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit” is the famous first line of The Hobbit, so it seems natural that visitors to the Morgan Library’s new J.R.R. Tolkien exhibit enter by walking through ...

British auction house Sotheby’s is gearing up for a huge sale of “antiquarian books and manuscripts from an English country house” December 9. The collection includes several items that you’ll wish ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...