illustrations de Ted Nasmith The Arkenstone (Hobbit Card Game) Artwork for The Hobbit Card Game; Sophisticated Games, Cambridge UK 2012. All works gouache on board, 3 ¾” x 5 ¾” “That stone of all the treasure I name unto myself, and I will be avenged on anyone who finds it and withholds it.“― Thorin[1] “The Arkenstone was discovered by Thráin I soon after the establishment of the dwarf-kingdom … Dáin Ironfoot Artwork for The Hobbit Card Game; Sophisticated Games, Cambridge UK 2012. J.R.R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien naquit le 3 janvier 1892, à Bloemfontein (Afrique du Sud). En 1895, sa mère, Mabel, décida de revenir à Birmingham, berceau familial, avec ses deux fils : John et Hilary Arthur Reuel. Leur père malade, ne pouvant les suivre, décéda le 15 février 1896. Sa disparition eut pour conséquence une gêne financière pour la famille, aggravée par la conversion -mal vécue par ses proches- de Mabel au catholicisme (1900). Elle disparut prématurément à son tour en décembre 1904, à l'âge de 34 ans. Ronald garda d'elle le souvenir d'une sainte. En 1905, lui et Hilary furent hébergés chez une tante. Tolkien devint boursier à Oxford en 1911, et vit la parution de ses premiers vers cette même année. Pour l’anecdote, ce fut en corrigeant les copies de ses élèves que Tolkien tomba sur une feuille blanche et y rédigea les premières lignes de Bilbo le Hobbit. J.R.R.
Bilbo le Hobbit Hobbit Movie News and Information, The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien - TheOneRing.net - Forged by the Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien Happy Hobbit: Chicks (Easter Special) – Episode 39 April 16, 2014 at 7:07 pm - When Kili is excluded from Fili’s Easter party, she visits a friend to pick up a little revenge… in the form of a chick! Continue Reading Wondercon starts on Friday in Anaheim April 16, 2014 at 4:06 am - Convention season is upon us, and the first big shindig on the TheOneRing.net Calendar is Wondercon in Anaheim. Just how do you make the One Ring? April 15, 2014 at 2:44 pm - Sauron created the One Ring in secrecy, so little is known of how he created it. Show us your passion for Smaug – contest WINNERS April 14, 2014 at 8:04 pm - Smaug the Magnificent indeed! EXCLUSIVE – Richard Armitage chats with TheOneRing.net April 14, 2014 at 11:40 am - With the Home Video release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (which becomes available this week in Australia, Brazil and parts of Europe), Richard Armitage has been busy giving interviews, as we’ve been posting over the past week or so. April 13, 2014 at 7:19 pm -
Art Student Hand-Illuminates, Binds a Copy of Tolkien's Silmarillion This German art student, Benjamin Harff, decided, for his exam at the Academy of Arts, to do something only slightly ambitious — to hand-illuminate and bind a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion. It took him six months of work. In very 21st century elvish-monk style, he hand-illuminated the text which had been printed on his home Canon inkjet printer. He worked with a binder to assemble the resulting book. I spent a year of my life, in my youth, fancying myself some sort of modern-day monastic scribe and doing this sort of Celtic knotwork-inspired illumination and calligraphy, so I am in awe of his talent. Interview with Benjamin Harff, upcoming Tolkien illustrator and creator of the Edel-Silmarillion Gareth Branwyn Gareth Branwyn is a freelancer writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. Related