Funny you should say that...

[Galadriel55]

This is a picture of the cover of a copy of "Poems and Stories" (includes Adventures of Tom B., Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by Niggle, and others). It might be my imagination, but in the roots of the tree (on the right hand side) you can find J.R.R.T's initials. I don't know who drew the picture, ight be JRRT himself. Weird, isn't it?

PS: Sorry for the smudged image. Blame it on the camera.

[Bom Tombadillo]

Ooh! Ooh!

Here are some nice little incongruities to giggle at:

The great shadow descended like a falling cloud. And behold! It was a winged creature: if bird, then greater than all other birds, and it was naked . . .

And the second half of the same quote:

. . . and neither quill nor feather did it bear, and its vast pinions were as webs of hide between horned fingers; and it stank.

Also this one from the Silmarillion:

The Ring was unbreakable by any smithcraft less than his own. It was indissoluble in any fire, save the undying subterranean fire where it was made - and that was unapproachable, in Mordor. Also so great was the Ring's power of lust, that anyone who used it was mastered by it; it was beyond the strength of any will (even his own) to injure it, cast it away, or neglect it. So he thought. It was in any case on his finger.