Tolkien Art Index: colored ink

TAI #18	“Conversation with Smaug”
	Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 30r perspectives black ink colored ink pencil watercolor white body color architecture Cirth dragons rings · jewels · gold weapons Bilbo Smaug Erebor (The Lonely Mountain)	Year	Source	H&A	Page	Figure	Notes
		1938	The Hobbit	A·3·b	228, facing
		1972	’73 Calendar (Ball.)	E·ii·5	June
		1973	’74 Calendar (Unwin)	E·ii·6	July
		1973	’74 Calendar (Ball.)	E·ii·7	June
		1975	’76 Calendar (Unwin)	E·ii·10	December
		1977	’78 Desk Calendar (Ball.)	E·ii·13	December
		1979	Pictures 1	E·i·2	[45]	17
		1987	’88 Calendar (Ball.)	E·ii·27	July
		1987	Hobbit: Drawings, W’colors, MSs	D·ii·66	25	42
		1987	’88 Calendar (Unwin)	E·ii·26	July
		1988	Annotated Hobbit 1	A·3·dd	3		monochrome; as part of first American dust jacket
		1988	Annotated Hobbit 1	A·3·dd	230		monochrome
		1991	Hobbit Birthday Book	E·ii·28	4	April
		1991	’92 Diary	E·ii·29	1992-08-03
		1995	Art. & Ill.		140	133
		2002	Annotated Hobbit 2		third plate, top
		2002	Annotated Hobbit 2		dust jacket		center only
		2002	Annotated Hobbit 2		18		monochrome; as part of first American dust jacket
		2002	Annotated Hobbit 2		277		monochrome
		2007	History of Hobbit		plate XI, top
		2011	Art of Hobbit		104	71
		2011	Art of Hobbit		141	103, center	detail of Bilbo
		2018	Maker of Middle-earth		[288]		enlarged detail showing Smaug, Bilbo, and the Arkenstone
		2018	Maker of Middle-earth		[314]	item 143
		2018	Tolkien Treasures		front cover		detail
		2018	Tolkien Treasures		100
		2018	Tolkien Treasures		[101]		enlarged detail showing Smaug, Bilbo, and the Arkenstone
		2019	Voyage en Terre du Milieu		122	53	as “Conversation avec Smaug, illustration du Hobbit”
TAI #29	“Beleg finds Gwindor in Taur-na-Fúin” — See also TAI #9 Later titled “Fangorn Forest,” an early name for Taur-nu-Fuin (Dorthonion), not to be confused with Treebeard’s Fangorn. The image was later the inspiration for “Mirkwood.”
	Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 89, fol. 14r perspectives black ink colored ink pencil watercolor trees · forests Beleriand Taur-nu-Fuin (Dorthonion)	Year	Source	H&A	Page	Figure	Notes
		1973	’74 Calendar (Unwin)	E·ii·6	December
		1976	’77 Calendar (Unwin)	E·ii·12	May
		1977	’78 Calendar (Unwin)	E·ii·15	August
		1978	’79 Desk Calendar (Ball.)	E·ii·20	March	recto	r/l reversed
		1979	Pictures 1	E·i·2	[85]	37, right
		1991	’92 Diary	E·ii·29	1992-12-30
		1995	Art. & Ill.		58	54
		2011	Art of Hobbit		76	48
		2015	Tolkien Estate web site		Website Illustrations gallery	5th item (“Taur-na-Fúin ~ Fangorn Forest”)
		2018	Maker of Middle-earth		[4–5]		enlarged detail showing Beleg
		2018	Maker of Middle-earth		224–[225]	item 74
		2018	Tolkien Treasures		72
		2018	Tolkien Treasures		[73]		enlarged detail showing Beleg and Gwindor
		2019	Voyage en Terre du Milieu		128–9	58	as “Beleg découvre Flinding à Taur-na-Fúin (« Forêt de Fangorn »)“; two-page spread
		2020	Worlds of Tolkien		124–5
TAI #498	‘Maddo’
	Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 88, fol. 31r tableaux black ink colored ink watercolor moon stars trees · forests	Year	Source	H&A	Page	Figure	Notes
		1995	Art. & Ill.		84	78
		2018	Maker of Middle-earth		178	70

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