TAI #1 | Dust-jacket for The Hobbit, final art | ||||||
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Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 32r tableaux black ink pencil watercolor white body color birds · eagles bridges · fords clouds · mists · snow dragons moon mountains · hills rivers · lakes · seas stars sun trees · forests Erebor (The Lonely Mountain) Esgaroth (Lake-town) Long Lake | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1937 | The Hobbit | A·3·a | dust jacket | ||||
1975 | ’76 Calendar (Unwin) | E·ii·10 | front cover | ||||
1988 | Annotated Hobbit 1 | A·3·dd | 3 | monochrome | |||
1992 | Life & Legend | 54 | 99 | ||||
1992 | Family Album | 70 | top | right 45% only (front cover) | |||
1993 | Descriptive Bibliography | 6 | III | ||||
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 151 | 144 | ||||
2002 | Annotated Hobbit 2 | plate three, bottom | |||||
2002 | Annotated Hobbit 2 | 17 | monochrome | ||||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | slipcase front | central 40% only | ||||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | [5] | spine only | ||||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 138 | 101 | ||||
2018 | Maker of Middle-earth | [324–25] | item 146 | ||||
2018 | Tolkien Treasures | [84] | detail of back cover and spine | ||||
2018 | Tolkien Treasures | [102 –] 3 | |||||
2018 | Writer’s Map | 161 | |||||
2019 | Voyage en Terre du Milieu | 62–3 | 1 | as “Maquette de la jaquette pour Le Hobbit”; two-page spread | |||
2020 | Worlds of Tolkien | 8 | |||||
TAI #2 | The Hobbit, final binding | ||||||
friezes tableaux finished binding Cirth dragons moon mountains · hills sun | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1937 | The Hobbit | A·3·a | covers | ||||
1988 | Annotated Hobbit 1 | A·3·dd | front cover | dragon from front cover only | |||
1988 | Annotated Hobbit 1 | A·3·dd | 3 | monochrome | |||
1991 | ’92 Diary | E·ii·29 | 1992-05-29 | dragon from back cover only | |||
1991 | ’92 Diary | E·ii·29 | 1992-07-10 | part of frieze only | |||
1991 | ’92 Diary | E·ii·29 | 1992-09-18 | dragon from front cover only | |||
1993 | Descriptive Bibliography | 5 | II | ||||
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 148 | 142 | monochrome | |||
2002 | Annotated Hobbit 2 | [i] | dragon from front cover only | ||||
2002 | Annotated Hobbit 2 | [xiii] | dragon from front cover only | ||||
2002 | Annotated Hobbit 2 | 16, right | monochrome | ||||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 135 | 98 | ||||
2018 | Maker of Middle-earth | 320 | 106 | Bodleian Arch. AA e. 143 | |||
TAI #23 | Death of Smaug | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 31r perspectives black ink colored pencil pencil red ink architecture buildings dragons fire moon rivers · lakes · seas Smaug Esgaroth (Lake-town) Long Lake | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1972 | ’73 Calendar (Ball.) | E·ii·5 | July | ||||
1973 | ’74 Calendar (Unwin) | E·ii·6 | September | ||||
1973 | ’74 Calendar (Ball.) | E·ii·7 | July | ||||
1979 | Pictures 1 | E·i·2 | [49] | 19 | |||
1988 | Annotated Hobbit 1 | A·3·dd | 261 | monochrome | |||
1992 | Life & Legend | 54 | 111 | ||||
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 144 | 137 | ||||
2002 | Annotated Hobbit 2 | fifth plate, top | |||||
2002 | Annotated Hobbit 2 | 306 | monochrome | ||||
2007 | History of Hobbit | plate XII, top | |||||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 113 | 78 | ||||
2018 | Maker of Middle-earth | [315] | 104 | ||||
2019 | Voyage en Terre du Milieu | 123 | 54 | as “La Mort de Smaug” | |||
TAI #39 | “The Lonely Mountain” | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 102r perspectives black ink pencil buildings dragons moon mountains · hills rivers · lakes · seas stars Smaug Celduin (River Running) Dale The Desolation of Smaug Erebor (The Lonely Mountain) Ered Mithrin (Grey Mountains) Rhovanion (Wilderland) | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1974 | Lonely Mountain (poster) | E·ii·8 | |||||
1987 | The Hobbit | A·3·y | i11 | per Hammond & Scull’s blog entry, “Foreword to the Hobbit” | |||
1987 | Hobbit: Drawings, W’colors, MSs | D·ii·66 | 32 | 41 | |||
1988 | Annotated Hobbit 1 | A·3·dd | 230 | ||||
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 143 | 136 | ||||
2002 | Annotated Hobbit 2 | 273 | |||||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 111 | 77 | ||||
2019 | Voyage en Terre du Milieu | [104] | detail; on green paper | ||||
2019 | Voyage en Terre du Milieu | 118 | 50 | as “La Montagne Solitaire” | |||
TAI #75 | Tol Sirion | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 87, fol. 51 perspectives pencil architecture bridges · fords buildings moon mountains · hills rivers · lakes · seas roads · paths sun trees · forests Ered Wethrin Taur-nu-Fuin (Dorthonion) Tol Sirion | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1977 | ’78 Calendar (Unwin) | E·ii·15 | September | colorized | |||
1978 | ’79 Desk Calendar (Ball.) | E·ii·20 | May | recto | colorized | ||
1979 | Pictures 1 | E·i·2 | [82] | 36, left | |||
1979 | Pictures 1 | E·i·2 | [83] | 36, right | colorized | ||
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 59 | 55 | ||||
2019 | Voyage en Terre du Milieu | [97] | 29 | as “Le Val du Sirion” | |||
TAI #88 | The Elvenking’s gate from across the river Verso: runes for Thror’s map; see Art of the Hobbit fig. 31, p. 57. | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 89, fol. 36r elvenking’s gate perspectives black ink pencil watercolor architecture bridges · fords clouds · mists · snow moon rivers · lakes · seas roads · paths spiders · insects trees · forests The Forest River Mirkwood Rhovanion (Wilderland) | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1978 | ’79 Calendar (Unwin) | E·ii·18 | April | ||||
1979 | Pictures 1 | E·i·2 | [33] | 11 | |||
1988 | Annotated Hobbit 1 | A·3·dd | 185 | monochrome | |||
2002 | Annotated Hobbit 2 | 224 | monochrome | ||||
2007 | History of Hobbit | plate VII, bottom | |||||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 79 | 50 | ||||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 89 | 59, top right | detail of entrance | |||
TAI #104 | ‘Sketch for The Forest River’ | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 21r barrel rider perspectives black ink pencil watercolor architecture buildings moon mountains · hills rivers · lakes · seas trees · forests Bilbo The Forest River Mirkwood Rhovanion (Wilderland) | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1978 | ’79 Calendar (Unwin) | E·ii·18 | August | ||||
1979 | Pictures 1 | E·i·2 | [37] | 13 | |||
1988 | Annotated Hobbit 1 | A·3·dd | 198 | monochrome | |||
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 129 | 122 | ||||
2002 | Annotated Hobbit 2 | 238 | monochrome | ||||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 92 | 61 | ||||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 141 | 103, center left | detail of Bilbo | |||
2018 | Maker of Middle-earth | [310] | 102 | ||||
TAI #111 | “Smaug flies round the Mountain” | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 89, fol. 24r perspectives black ink pencil watercolor white body color architecture buildings moon mountains · hills rivers · lakes · seas stars Celduin (River Running) Dale The Desolation of Smaug Erebor (The Lonely Mountain) Ered Mithrin (Grey Mountains) Rhovanion (Wilderland) | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1978 | ’79 Calendar (Unwin) | E·ii·18 | October | ||||
1979 | Pictures 1 | E·i·2 | [47] | 18 | |||
1991 | ’92 Diary | E·ii·29 | 1992-11-02 | ||||
2007 | History of Hobbit | plate X, bottom | |||||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 109 | 75 | ||||
TAI #116 | mountains & trees frieze | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 87, fol. 52 friezes tableaux colored pencil pencil clouds · mists · snow moon mountains · hills rivers · lakes · seas trees · forests | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1978 | ’79 Calendar (Unwin) | E·ii·7 | November | bottom | |||
1979 | Pictures 1 | E·i·2 | [95] | 42, bottom | |||
1983 | The Silmarillion | A·15·j | front cover | detail | |||
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 62 | 59, middle | ||||
TAI #117 | Eärendil heraldic device | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 91, fol. 30 heraldic devices pencil emblems · insignia moon stars Eärendil | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1978 | ’79 Desk Calendar (Ball.) | E·ii·20 | April | verso (left) | |||
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 193 | 190 (top left) | ||||
TAI #121 | ‘I Vene Kemen’ In A·21·a and A·21·b, this was redrawn and printed in-line on page 84. | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien S 2/III, fol. 9r diagrams · designs maps pencil architecture buildings moon rivers · lakes · seas ships · boats stars | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1983 | HM1: Lost Tales I | A·21 | frontispiece | half-tone plate | |||
1984 | HM1: Lost Tales I | A·21·c | 84 | half-tone plate | |||
1992 | Life & Legend | 70 | 201 | ||||
2018 | Maker of Middle-earth | 210–[11] | item 68 | ||||
2019 | Voyage en Terre du Milieu | 208 | 131 | as “Carte du vaisseau du monde, vers 1916–1920” | |||
2020 | Worlds of Tolkien | 68 | |||||
TAI #122 | Doors of Durin, later manuscript | ||||||
Marquette 3/4/15/1a Durin’s doors diagrams · designs blue ink pencil crowns · hats · helms moon stars Tengwar tools · instruments trees · forests Eregion (Hollin) Moria | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1984 | CatalogOfMSs | E·i·3 | front cover | ||||
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 158 | 151 | monochrome | |||
2015 | Art of LR | 67 | 42 | ||||
2019 | Voyage en Terre du Milieu | 112 | 44 | as “Les Portes de Durin ou Porte de la Moria (version à l’encre)” | |||
TAI #143 | The Hobbit trial dust-jacket | ||||||
Marquette MS. Tolkien 1/2/4 tableaux black ink pencil watercolor birds · eagles dragons moon mountains · hills rivers · lakes · seas sun trees · forests Erebor (The Lonely Mountain) Long Lake | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1987 | Hobbit: Drawings, W’colors, MSs | D·ii·66 | 8–9 | 1 | monochrome | ||
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 149 | 143 | monochrome | |||
2007 | History of Hobbit | dust jacket front | monochrome on yellow; dragon, central mountain & next five peaks w/neighboring trees | ||||
2007 | History of Hobbit | dust jacket front fly leaf | monochrome on yellow; five mountains w/neighboring trees | ||||
2007 | History of Hobbit | dust jacket back fly leaf | monochrome on yellow; reversed; five mountains w/neighboring trees | ||||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 137 | 100 | ||||
2018 | Maker of Middle-earth | [321] | item 145 | ||||
TAI #150 | The West Gate of Moria: earliest drawing of the inscription and signs — See also TAI #151 | ||||||
Marquette MS. Tolkien 3/3/10 Durin’s doors diagrams · designs black ink pencil crowns · hats · helms moon stars Tengwar tools · instruments trees · forests Eregion (Hollin) Moria | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1989 | HM7: Treason | 182 | monochrome | ||||
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 158 | 150 | monochrome | |||
2004 | Invented Worlds | 13 | |||||
2015 | Art of LR | 67 | 41 | ||||
2018 | Maker of Middle-earth | [342] | 111 | ||||
TAI #151 | tree by Doors of Durin — See also TAI #150 | ||||||
Marquette MS. Tolkien 3/3/10/11b Durin’s doors diagrams · designs pencil moon trees · forests Eregion (Hollin) Moria | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1989 | HM7: Treason | 182 | upper right | monochrome | |||
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 158 | 150, upper right | monochrome | |||
2004 | Invented Worlds | 13 | |||||
2015 | Art of LR | 67 | 41, upper right | ||||
2018 | Maker of Middle-earth | [342] | 111, upper right | ||||
TAI #211 | The shores of Faëry | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 87, fol. 22r perspectives black ink pencil watercolor buildings moon mountains · hills stars sun | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 48 | 44 | ||||
2015 | Tolkien Estate web site | Landscapes gallery | 5th item | ||||
2018 | Maker of Middle-earth | [203] | item 65 | ||||
2018 | Tolkien Treasures | [4–5] | detail | ||||
2018 | Tolkien Treasures | 64 | |||||
2019 | Voyage en Terre du Milieu | 210 | 133 | as “Les Rivages de Faërie” | |||
2020 | Worlds of Tolkien | 29 | |||||
TAI #212 | The man in the moon | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 87, fol. 23r perspectives pencil silver paint watercolor moon mountains · hills tools · instruments | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 49 | 45 | ||||
2015 | Tolkien Estate web site | Landscapes gallery | 9th item | ||||
TAI #242 | The Front Door | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 89, fol. 23r friezes perspectives black ink brown ink pencil watercolor buildings dragons moon mountains · hills rivers · lakes · seas trees · forests Celduin (River Running) Dale The Desolation of Smaug Erebor (The Lonely Mountain) Ered Mithrin (Grey Mountains) Rhovanion (Wilderland) | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 142 | 135 | ||||
2007 | History of Hobbit | plate X, top | |||||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 110 | 76 | ||||
TAI #244 | Design for Hobbit back cover and spine | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 89, fol. 43r diagrams · designs friezes tableaux black ink pencil Cirth dragons moon mountains · hills Erebor (The Lonely Mountain) Rhovanion (Wilderland) | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 147 | 141 | monochrome | |||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 134 | 97 | ||||
TAI #245 | Hobbit cover sketch: sun with moon and rune | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 89, fol. 43r diagrams · designs tableaux pencil Cirth moon mountains · hills sun | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 147 | 141, left | monochrome | |||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 134 | 97, left | ||||
TAI #246 | Hobbit cover sketch: moon and rune | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 89, fol. 43r diagrams · designs black ink Cirth moon | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 147 | 141, upper center | monochrome | |||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 134 | 97, upper center | ||||
TAI #247 | Hobbit cover sketch: moon and rune | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 89, fol. 43r diagrams · designs pencil Cirth moon | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 147 | 141, center | monochrome | |||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 134 | 97, center | ||||
TAI #248 | Hobbit cover sketch: moon and rune | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 89, fol. 43r diagrams · designs black ink pencil Cirth moon | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 147 | 141, right | ||||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 134 | 97, right | ||||
TAI #249 | Hobbit cover sketch: moon and rune | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 89, fol. 43r diagrams · designs black ink pencil Cirth moon | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 147 | 141, lower center | monochrome | |||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 134 | 97, lower center | ||||
TAI #252 | Doors of Durin, revised drawing | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 90, fol. 36r Durin’s doors diagrams · designs blue ink pencil crowns · hats · helms moon stars Tengwar tools · instruments trees · forests Eregion (Hollin) Moria | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 158 | 152 | monochrome | |||
2015 | Art of LR | 67 | 43 | ||||
2015 | Art of LR | back cover | without inscription; rendered as white on black | ||||
2018 | Maker of Middle-earth | [340] | item 153 | ||||
2018 | Tolkien Treasures | 114 | |||||
2019 | Voyage en Terre du Milieu | 113 | 45 | as “Les Portes de Durin ou Porte de la Moria (version à l’encre)” | |||
TAI #265 | Dust-jacket design for The Two Towers | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 90, fol. 28r diagrams · designs objects tableaux black ink pencil red ink architecture buildings moon rings · jewels · gold sun Nazgûl Barad-dûr (Dark Tower) Mordor Orodruin (Mt. Doom) | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 180 | 179 | monochrome | |||
2015 | Art of LR | 221 | 178 | ||||
2018 | Maker of Middle-earth | [372] | 118 | ||||
TAI #266 | Dust-jacket design for The Two Towers | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 90, fol. 29r diagrams · designs tableaux black ink gray body color pencil red body color white body color architecture buildings moon mountains · hills rings · jewels · gold stars Nazgûl Barad-dûr (Dark Tower) Mordor Orodruin (Mt. Doom) | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
1992 | Life & Legend | 87 | 170 | monochrome | |||
1995 | Art. & Ill. | 181 | 180 | cast as olive green | |||
2015 | Art of LR | 222 | 179 | ||||
2015 | Art of LR | dust jacket back | towers, mountains, moon, star | ||||
2018 | Maker of Middle-earth | [370] | item 168 | ||||
2018 | Tolkien Treasures | 107 | |||||
2019 | Voyage en Terre du Milieu | 65 | 3 | as “Maquette de la jaquette pour Les Deux Tours” | |||
TAI #328 | The Forest River | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 89, fol. 47r barrel rider perspectives crayon pencil moon mountains · hills rivers · lakes · seas trees · forests The Forest River Mirkwood Rhovanion (Wilderland) | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 93 | 62 | ||||
TAI #329 | “The White Dragon Pursues Roverandom & the Moondog” Not Smaug circling Erebor, but it might as well be. | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 89, fol. 3r perspectives black ink dragons moon mountains · hills rivers · lakes · seas spiders · insects stars Smaug Erebor (The Lonely Mountain) Rhovanion (Wilderland) | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 107 | 72 | ||||
TAI #343 | Trial drawing for The Hobbit binding frieze | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 89, fol. 41r friezes black ink pencil moon mountains · hills sun | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 131 | 93, center | ||||
TAI #347 | Design for The Hobbit upper binding | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 89, fol. 40r diagrams · designs friezes black ink pencil moon mountains · hills sun | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 132 | 95 | ||||
2011 | Art of Hobbit | slipcase back | in light gray and dark gray; no text | ||||
TAI #348 | Design for Hobbit back cover and spine | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 89, fol. 44r diagrams · designs pencil Cirth moon mountains · hills sun | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
2011 | Art of Hobbit | 133 | 96 | ||||
TAI #379 | Trial for Doors of Durin decorations | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 90, fol. 34v Durin’s doors diagrams · designs tableaux black ink pencil moon trees · forests | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
2015 | Art of LR | 69 | 45, center right | ||||
TAI #495 | ‘Beyond’ | ||||||
Bodleian MS. Tolkien Drawings 87, fol. 12r perspectives tableaux watercolor moon mountains · hills roads · paths stars trees · forests | Year | Source | H&A | Page | Figure | Notes | |
2018 | Maker of Middle-earth | 170 | 66 | ||||
2019 | Voyage en Terre du Milieu | 277 | 201 | as “Au-delà, illustration pour le Livre d’Ishness” | |||
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 |
All images by J.R.R. Tolkien are copyright © The Tolkien Estate Limited or © The Tolkien Trust. The omission of greeting cards and jigsaw puzzles from the above list of sources is intentional.