The Tolkien Illustrated Series is special because all of the full-color illustrations and sketches throughout each book were drawn by the author himself while he penned the manuscripts that would ...
“Almost worthless.” He had become a Bad Art Friend. They never truly reconciled. Yet “The Mythmakers” makes a powerful case that if Tolkien and Lewis had never met, they would never have ...
But again, Tolkien wasn’t out to create a practical real-world language. “A Secret Vice” makes it clear that he considered his languages works of art, and used them to express his personal ...
R. R. Tolkien. Last chance spoiler warning for the Season 2 finale of The Rings of Power! Perhaps surprising no-one, the Stranger is confirmed to be Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings’ most famous ...
The most faithful thing TROP does for the character is transfer some of his dialogue from Tolkien’s novel, when he saves Merry from being trapped inside Old Man Willow, to the series when he ...