Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien [Hardcover]

Christopher Tolkien (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; First U.S. Edition edition (November 19, 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0395285232
• ISBN-13: 978-0395285237
• Product Dimensions: 13.6 x 11.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #748,572 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892.1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early English written tradition, but even as he studied these classics he was creating a set of his own.

Customer Reviews

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43 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All the fantastic pictures Tolkien ever made!!!, June 8, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: PICTURES BY TOLKIEN REV CL (Hardcover)

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

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but "Artist" is a good alternative, June 14, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: PICTURES BY TOLKIEN REV CL (Hardcover)

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."

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bought it when new... very happy, August 11, 2010

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This review is from: PICTURES BY TOLKIEN REV CL (Hardcover)

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.