When J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit, he was already an accomplished amateur artist and this sumptuous full colour art book contains the complete collection of more than 100 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps that he created for it. Includes related pictures, more than one hundred sketches, drawings, paintings, maps, and plans, preliminary and alternate versions and experimental designs as well as finished art. Using fresh digital scans from the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford and Marquette University in Wisconsin, Tolkien's Hobbit pictures can be seen more vividly than ever before.
