| TAI #269 | Dust-jacket design for Return of the King On verso: body color trials, signature “JRRTolkien”, eye motif | ||||||
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| Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 90, fol. 30r diagrams · designs tableaux black ink gold paint green body color red body color white body color mountains · hills stars trees · forests Sauron Ered Nimrais (White Mountains) | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
| 1992 | Life & Legend | 61 | 171 | monochrome | |||
| 1995 | Art. & Ill. | 183 | 182 | cast as dark green | |||
| 2015 | Art of LR | dust jacket front | |||||
| 2015 | Art of LR | 230 | 184 | ||||
| 2018 | Maker of Middle-earth | [374] | item 169 | ||||
| 2018 | Tolkien Treasures | 108 | |||||
| 2018 | Tolkien Treasures | [109] | enlarged detail | ||||
| 2019 | Voyage en Terre du Milieu | 67 | 4 | as “Maquette de la jaquette pour Le Retour du roi” | |||
| TAI #354 | Dust-jacket design for The Fellowship of the Ring | ||||||
| Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 90, fol. 24r diagrams · designs black ink colored pencil gold paint pencil red ink eyes rings · jewels · gold Tengwar Sauron | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
| 1992 | Life & Legend | [2] | monochrome | ||||
| 2015 | Art of LR | [16] | the One Ring, Narya, lidless eye, and Tengwar only | ||||
| 2015 | Art of LR | 214 | 170 | ||||
| 2018 | Maker of Middle-earth | [367] | item 167 | ||||
| 2018 | Tolkien Treasures | 106 | |||||
| 2019 | Voyage en Terre du Milieu | front cover | the One Ring, Narya, lidless eye, and Tengwar only; on black background | ||||
| 2019 | Voyage en Terre du Milieu | 64 | 2 | as “Maquette de la jaquette pour La Fraternité de l’Anneau” | |||
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