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Six (Or Maybe Three?) Degrees to Tolkien -- Aesthetic Inspirations
Below, a rare beautiful binding of The Hobbit from abebooks.com. J.R.R. Tolkien fascinates me for many reasons. I think of him as a super-talented Renaissance man. He created an elaborate fictional world in Middle Earth. Not only did he show himself a master of letters in his Lord of the Rings trilogy, he illustrated his stories himself with skill. He is a writer, illustrator, cartographer,letterer, philologist, simply a creator on many levels. Tolkien's illustration of Rivendell, a region…
