Pictures by JRR TolkienPictures by JRR Tolkien was first published in 1992, with a forward and text by Christopher Tolkien.
Pictures by JRR Tolkien was released as a lovely oversize edition, measuring 12 ½” by 12”, and contained thirty-eight of Tolkien’s sketches and watercolors of Middle-earth. Tolkien was also a chronic doodler, creating intricate colored frieze-type patterns and floral designs on any available blank spaces – especially newspaper pages. The book contains many of these designs, all of which had only appeared prior to this in various Tolkien Calendars from the 1970’s. These pictures by JRR Tolkien provide a unique look into the vision of the man who created Middle-earth. A few of the pictures were pen-and-ink drawings that Tolkien later painted himself (such as “The Hill: Hobbiton Across the Water”), while most of the colored pictures were originally pen-and-ink drawings later colored by H.E. Riddett for the Tolkien Calenders in which they originally appeared. Perhaps the most charming of the paintings by Tolkien is that of “The Forest of Lothlorien in the Spring”, a beautifully-colored piece that brings to mind Ted Nasmith’s painting of “Lúthien”. A few of the other paintings and drawings that appear in The Pictures of JRR Tolkien are:
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