The LR illustrations Tolkien almost approved
A fascinating and bittersweet story, never to my knowledge known until now, in the Times Literary Supplement.
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1124297.ece
Had her timing not been star-crossed, there might have been an illustrated LR issued with the author's imprimatur.
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The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.
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