Hi everyone,

You encouraged me to publish my 2022 talk about the Queen's illustrations, so here it is: https://voirtolkien.hypotheses.org/1224. I hope it's alright to post a link, and I hope you enjoy reading the post even though I didn't include illustrations!

MarieBreta wrote:

Hi everyone,

You encouraged me to publish my 2022 talk about the Queen's illustrations, so here it is: https://voirtolkien.hypotheses.org/1224. I hope it's alright to post a link, and I hope you enjoy reading the post even though I didn't include illustrations!

Thanks for sharing!

MarieBreta wrote:

Hi everyone,

You encouraged me to publish my 2022 talk about the Queen's illustrations, so here it is: https://voirtolkien.hypotheses.org/1224. I hope it's alright to post a link, and I hope you enjoy reading the post even though I didn't include illustrations!

thank you so much, great read! seems like there is no definitive answer yet when it comes to whether she had any input with the frontispieces (other than the pyre of denethor you mentioned in the paper), even though the frontispieces are probably the most famous illustrations from this edition, especially the Nazgul.

by the way, were there any non-lotr Tolkien pieces at the exhibition? such as this painting of Hurin and Morwen that the Queen showed in this documentary:

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed my article!

The Silmarillion illustrations weren't on display at this exhibition, but of course I'd be extremely interested in seeing them if there's an opportunity one day.