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3 Apr, 2023 (edited)
2023-4-3 5:57:28 PM UTC
Dear All,
Just would like to post some of ‘exhibition’ items I’ve gathered the last 4 years
- Tolkien Maker of Middle Earth Collector Edition (2018), copy #10, signed by C. McIllwaine on the title page (+signature of Priscilla Tolkien on fly leaf)
- Voyage en Terre du Milieu (2019), exhibition package with catalogue, album, Magazine and invitations, french publisher tote bag, etc... the catalogue is signed by Adam Tolkien, Vincent Ferré curator of the exhibition and Tolkien scholars Leo Carruthers and Damien Bador
- Tolkien, the Art of the Manuscript (2022) exhibition package. Both hardback and soft back catalogues are signed by the curators Sarah C. Schaefer and William M. Fliss
- Tolkien Life and Legend catalogue (1992)
- Drawings by Tolkien (1976), signed by Priscilla Tolkien (with some dedication) and signed and dedicated to me by Baillie Tolkien on December 2021

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3 Apr, 2023
2023-4-3 7:11:04 PM UTC
Wonderful stuff Emilien!
3 Apr, 2023 (edited)
2023-4-3 7:24:08 PM UTC

Mr. Underhill wrote:

Wonderful stuff Emilien!

100% agreement, great collection Emilien!
3 Apr, 2023
2023-4-3 7:29:31 PM UTC
Wow Emilien! That's a pristine looking collection. Beautiful.
3 Apr, 2023
2023-4-3 7:44:27 PM UTC
Thank you dear friends !
3 Apr, 2023
2023-4-3 8:09:46 PM UTC
Beautiful!
4 Apr, 2023
2023-4-4 12:54:00 AM UTC
Wow! Just amazing material. Congrats!
4 Apr, 2023
2023-4-4 8:59:55 AM UTC
Very nicely curated emilien! Such a lovely array of pieces.

I just picked up another review piece - this time it's a review of ROTK from the June 1956 issue of The Month, by the scholar and critic Derek Traversi. It's a perceptive and elegantly written review.

The reviewer says that Tolkien "has created an imaginary world which strikes the reader as entirely true to the laws of its own being, untouched by any attempt to establish immediate parallels with the real world and yet variously true in its reflections upon human experience."

But what particularly struck me - considering that Tolkien is seen by many as the progenitor of modern fantasy - is this: "It is doubtful, indeed, whether the conditions which made such an achievement possible can be reproduced, or whether the work itself can serve as a model for future literary creations."

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4 Apr, 2023
2023-4-4 10:05:22 AM UTC
Congratulations (again :)) Emilien and congratulations Matt I love those reviews. With regards to that latest review I would also say that I dont quite agree with 'untouched by any attempt to establish immediate parallels with the real world'. Compared to Lewis I see the point, but I think it speaks very lighly about deep and complex connections with the real world in tolkiens legendarium. Fun review too see.
4 Apr, 2023 (edited)
2023-4-4 10:35:38 AM UTC

northman wrote:

Congratulations (again :)) Emilien and congratulations Matt I love those reviews. With regards to that latest review I would also say that I dont quite agree with 'untouched by any attempt to establish immediate parallels with the real world'. Compared to Lewis I see the point, but I think it speaks very lighly about deep and complex connections with the real world in tolkiens legendarium. Fun review too see.

I think that is why Traversi says "immediate". In the review he goes on to say that "the tale concludes with a return to common reality, the mingled relief and disillusion that constitutes the aftermath of war.... On both levels- the remotely heroic and the intimately human..." I agree with Traversi on that, that Tolkien did not "attempt to establish immediate paralells, but that they are still there. A very human story, set among such fantastical things.
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