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davem

03-01-2010 03:24 PM

One day only. Tolkien manuscripts at the Bodleian

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The Bodleian Library is taking part in World Book Day 2010 by exhibiting a selection of JRR Tolkien’s original artwork which was used to illustrate The Hobbit.

A unique manuscript of Hobbit doodles and a rare first edition of the book will also be on display. The free-of-charge one-day display will take place in the Divinity School of the Bodleian Library on Thursday, 4 March 2010.

http://www.articleant.com/gen/13491-...n-library.html

Rumil

03-01-2010 05:12 PM

Interesting davem!

Don't think I can skive off to Oxford this Thursday, anyone thinking of going? Have the doodles ever been published, web or otherwise?

Bêthberry

03-01-2010 08:55 PM

I don't think I'm going to fly over for one day. :p

Legate of Amon Lanc

03-02-2010 03:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Bêthberry (Post 624508)

I don't think I'm going to fly over for one day. :p

Yes, I was thinking actually something similar. :)

I think they should make it an itinerant exhibition...

The Might

03-02-2010 04:57 AM

One day only?

The article doesn't seem to offer any explanation for this either... maybe belonging to some collector who only wishes to lend them for one day?!

Mithalwen

03-02-2010 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by The Might (Post 624513)

One day only?

The article doesn't seem to offer any explanation for this either... maybe belonging to some collector who only wishes to lend them for one day?!

Could be... or too fragile to be exhibited for long. Or just because it is linked to World Book Day . Insurance may be steep and I think it is a free event.

davem

03-04-2010 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Rumil (Post 624503)

Have the doodles ever been published, web or otherwise?

Yep - the catalogue for the 1992 Bodleian Library Centenary Exhibition has a picture of it. Its a sheet of random scribbles ("Gandalf caused quite a stir in Alfaromdor by having his whiskers curled." & "In a hole in the ground lived a Hobbit, a curious & egregious little person as any of his friends would have told you" etc, etc) apparently 'written on the back of a torn sheet of minutes from an English Faculty Board meeting of 27th Oct 1939'. Pic of some of the exhibits here http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/you...t_in_the_open/

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