Unseen JRRT Hobbit Pic - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

William Cloud Hicklin · 09-24-2012, 08:53 AM

"Previously unseen" my fanny.

Somewhere buried in the middle of the text the Mail fesses up to "previously unseen in any newspaper."

Rivendell and the Eagle (Bilbo Awoke With the Sun in His Eyes) of course were published in the second UK and first US printings in 1938*; and the Death of Smaug first appeared as the cover of the 1966 UK paperback before being printed in Pictures by JRR Tolkien (1979). All have since been reprinted in Hammond and Scull's JRR Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator; while their new Art of the Hobbit does contain previously unpublished illustrations, these ain't them.

*Actually the UK and US editions each had four color plates, but different ones; Houghton Mifflim used the Eagle picture whereas Unwins went with Bilbo Comes to the Huts of the Raft-Elves

09-24-2012, 08:53 AM	#5
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	"Previously unseen" my fanny. Somewhere buried in the middle of the text the Mail fesses up to "previously unseen in any newspaper." Rivendell and the Eagle (Bilbo Awoke With the Sun in His Eyes) of course were published in the second UK and first US printings in 1938; and the Death of Smaug first appeared as the cover of the 1966 UK paperback before being printed in Pictures by JRR Tolkien* (1979). All have since been reprinted in Hammond and Scull's JRR Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator; while their new Art of the Hobbit does contain previously unpublished illustrations, these ain't them. Actually the UK and US editions each had four color plates, but different ones; Houghton Mifflim used the Eagle picture whereas Unwins went with Bilbo Comes to the Huts of the Raft-Elves* __________________ 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. Last edited by William Cloud Hicklin; 09-24-2012 at 09:19 AM.