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A comment on Tolkien’s Little-Known Original Drawings for the First Edition of “The Hobbit”.

Re:Tolkien’s Little-Known Original Drawings for the First Ed... by larsga on Thursday June 16, 2022 @03:12AM (#31763301)
Little-known? My edition of The Hobbit is illustrated with these. In fact, quite a lot of editions are.

I guess what this means is that the book is little-known.

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Re:Tolkien’s Little-Known Original Drawings for the First Ed... by thom on Thursday June 16, 2022 @03:17AM (#31763326)
Yeah, I have one of these on a bedside table. That said, I can’t claim I knew Tolkien himself painted it so clearly I do know little.
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Re:Tolkien’s Little-Known Original Drawings for the First Ed... by lambada on Thursday June 16, 2022 @07:56AM (#31764949)
The post is from 2011, so i would expect them to have entered much wider circulation now.
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Re:Tolkien’s Little-Known Original Drawings for the First Ed... by larsga on Thursday June 16, 2022 @08:20AM (#31765181)
These illustrations were used in the first edition in 1937. My edition is from 1992. I don't think frequency of use has changed at all.
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Re:Tolkien’s Little-Known Original Drawings for the First Ed... by lambada on Thursday June 16, 2022 @09:57AM (#31766098)
In that case I guess that the images in the article aren't the 'never before seen' (in 2011) ones that are meant to have been included in the publicised book.
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Re:Tolkien’s Little-Known Original Drawings for the First Ed... by alvperez82 on Thursday June 16, 2022 @03:34AM (#31763421)
In fact I didn't know that book existed, added to my wish list XD
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