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” |
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.