The Hobbit: Illustrated Edition: Or There and Back Again

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Jackson’s movie seemed to me to be a series of violent action set-pieces separated by boring sections of explication. It is now available in a smart new package, and is illustrated throughout in gorgeous watercolour and delicate pencil by Alan Lee, Conceptual Artist for Peter Jackson's films, THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY and THE HOBBIT: THERE AND BACK AGAIN. After serving in the First World War, he became best known for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, selling 150 million copies in more than 40 languages worldwide.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. For the first time ever, a beautiful slipcased edition of the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings , illustrated throughout with over 50 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps by J.

The first new illustrated edition of The Hobbit for more than 15 years contains 150 brand new colour illustrations. These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. Tolkien’s own selection of finished paintings and drawings have become inseparable from his text, adorning editions of The Hobbit for more than 85 years. She collects books and asked for this to complete the tolkien illustrated versions on top of the facsimile, mass paperbacks and others.

This popular paperback edition of the classic work of fantasy, with a striking new black cover based on JRR Tolkiens own design and featuring brand new reproductions of all his drawings and maps. As a bonus, you can read it in just about the same amount of time that it would take you to watch all three installments of the overblown and misguided movie adaptation.His books have been translated into over sixty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide. It is additionally quarterbound in green leather, with raised ribs on the spine, stamped in three foils on black cloth boards, and housed in a custom-built clothbound slipcase. This is a handsome book, green cloth over board with a color-and-gilt illustration of Bilbo resting against a vine-covered tree on the cover. For the first time ever, a special enhanced edition of the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings, illustrated throughout with 50 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps by J.

It was difficult to approach a book I’ve read a dozen times or more as though I were a young person reading or hearing the story for the first time, but that’s what I tried to do. Tolkien may not be the greatest illustrator, in fact he can't draw people for toffee, but they help to show his own vision of his creation in a way no other edition can. But the published art has afforded only a glimpse of Tolkien's creative process, and many additional sketches, colored drawings and maps - although exhibited and published elsewhere - have never appeared within the pages of The Hobbit. His books have been translated into over 40 languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide. But the published art has afforded only a glimpse of Tolkien's creative process, and many additional sketches, coloured drawings and maps - although exhibited and published elsewhere - have never appeared within the pages of The Hobbit.Introducing your kids to the world of children’s literature is one of the best things about being a parent, and it gets even more exciting once they are ready for longer, more involved stories. This new edition of The Hobbit follows similar editions of Tolkien’s other books featuring the author’s hand-drawn maps and artwork.

For the first time ever, a beautiful slipcased edition of the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings, illustrated throughout with over 50 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps by J.Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. The first great English detective novel, Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone is presented in a Folio Society limited edition of 750 numbered copies.