Tolkien Art Index: green body color

TAI #269	Dust-jacket design for Return of the King On verso: body color trials, signature “JRRTolkien”, eye motif
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”

Dust-jacket design for Return of the King

On verso: body color trials, signature “JRRTolkien”, eye motif

Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 90, fol. 30r

Year

Source

H&A

Page

Figure

Notes

1992

171

monochrome

1995

183

182

cast as dark green

2015

dust jacket front

2015

230

184

2018

[374]

item 169

2018

108

2018

[109]

enlarged detail

2019

as “Maquette de la jaquette pour Le Retour du roi”

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