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John Howe in Tolkien’s footsteps: exhibition review

From June 25 2023 to January 28 2024, the Hélène and Edouard Leclerc Foundation for Culture is hosting the exhibition “Following the trails of Tolkien and the medieval imaginary world. Paintings and drawings of John Howe”. I visited it in November, over two days, and here are my thoughts on it.

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John Howe sur les traces de Tolkien : compte-rendu d’exposition

Du 25 juin 2023 au 28 janvier 2024 se tient au Fonds Hélène et Edouard Leclerc pour la Culture l’exposition « Sur les traces de Tolkien et de l’imaginaire médiéval. Peintures et dessins de John Howe ». J’ai pu la visiter en novembre, sur deux jours, et je vous en propose un avis ici.

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Highlights from the 40th anniversary illustrated edition of Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth

As you may or may not know, my research is focused on illustrated editions of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth texts in English. It means a corpus of around 18 volumes with interior illustrations. So far, only one had been illustrated by a duo of artists: the Folio Society 1977 The Lord of the Rings, illustrated by Ingahild Grathmer and Eric Fraser (see my talk on the topic in the upcoming proceedings of Tolkien2019).

In 2020, HarperCollins celebrated the 40th anniversary of the publication of Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth with a new, illustrated edition. To make it even more special, they commissioned not only Alan Lee, who had worked on the Three Great Tales, but also Ted Nasmith (who illustrated the 1998 and 2004 Silmarillion, a new edition of which is announced for 2021) and John Howe (who has created numerous covers and calendars, as well as a pop-up Hobbit).

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An introduction to the 2020 illustrated edition of Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth

40 years ago Christopher Tolkien published Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, a collection of fragments of various lengths concerning topics of interest for in-depth readers of The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

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