One day only. Tolkien manuscripts at the Bodleian

[davem]

Originally Posted by Rumil

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/