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PICTURES BY TOLKIEN REV CL

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The only book with all the paintings and drawing by J.R.R Tolkien. Discover visually the author's own idea about his world. Moreover, it's a very beautiful book : the cover is nice and the drawings are awesome

This is a great book with many of Tolkien's most wonderful pictures (those used in a series of LOTR calendars featuring his art), but rather than pay the usually very high price for it (it is long out of print), I would recommend "JRR Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator" (also found on amazon.com), which contains nearly all of the paintings, etc. from "Pictures by JRR Tolkien" in addition to a great many of Tolkien's pictures not included in "Pictures" (200 total, as opposed to "Pictures"'s 47). "Artist" is still in print, so is much more affordable. The only advantage of "Pictures is that it has many of the colored versions of Tolkien's pen-and-ink drawings (colored by H. E. Riddet) not included in "Artist". While the most obsessive Tolkien fans will want both "Pictures" and "Artist", most will be content without the far more expensive (and less inclusive) "Pictures."

I haven't looked at this book for quite some time. However, since I recently began working out (on a NordicTrack Pro Skier Ski Machine I'm rereading LoTR The Lord of the Rings (Millennium Edition) (for the 30th-or-so-time) and have been looking for Tolkien books I might not have... and I found this on my bookshelf! The printing is very good, I enjoy Tolkien's envisions of his mind-pictures. Well worth it for a Tolkien-freaque like me.