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11-26-2009, 05:40 AM | #1 |
Illustrious Ulair
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Where it all began...
On his blog John Rateliff http://sacnoths.blogspot.com/2009/11...nd-pounds.html to an original drawing by Tolkien which is up for auction at Sotheby's http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot...t_id=159566775
Interesting for a couple of reasons - first, this is the farm bought by his aunt Jane Neave, where Tolkien actually began writing his mythology, & second, you can see an early version of JRRT's famous mongram in the bottom left corner. |
11-26-2009, 08:43 AM | #2 |
Gruesome Spectre
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It's amazing to me that something like that would be up for auction. The picture itself naturally puts me more in mind of the Shire than Gondolin.
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