J.R.R. Tolkien: Life and Legend
J.R.R. Tolkien: Life and Legend | |
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Author | Judith Priestman |
Illustrator | J.R.R. Tolkien |
Publisher | Bodleian Library, Oxford |
Released | 1992 |
Format | Paperback exhibition catalogue |
Pages | 96 |
ISBN | 1851240276 |
J.R.R. Tolkien: Life and Legend is the catalogue of the 1992 centenary exhibition held by the Bodleian Library, Oxford, to commemorate the centenary of the birth of J.R.R. Tolkien.
"J.R.R. Tolkien: Life and Legend" was the first large exhibition focused on Tolkien. In this exhibition 250 items were listed in the catalogue, with almost all coming from the Bodleian archives — a few were donated by Tolkien's publisher HarperCollins, and a small number from Corpus Christi College and Exeter College from Tolkien's time there.[1]
This catalogue lists, describes, and gives background on the items displayed during the exhibition. It reproduces a large selection of artwork, photographs, maps, manuscript pages, annotations, letters, and other momentos in both colour and black & white.
A few examples are: the cover of Ye Chequers Clubbe Binge[2], of Exeter College Smoker[3], a page from Book of the Foxrook.[4]
Table of content[edit | edit source]
- Introduction
- Catalogue
- Family and Early Life (item 1-15)
- Schooldays and Oxford (item 16-45)
- War (item 46-61)
- Lexicography and Leeds (item 62-86)
- 'Mr. Baggins' (item 87-146)
- The Lord of the Rings (item 147-191)
- The Silmarillion (item 192-223)
- Academic Life (item 224-232)
- Last Years (item 233-250)
- Afterword
See also[edit | edit source]
- Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth (Bodleian's 2018 exhibition catalogue)
- J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator
- Tolkien exhibitions
External links[edit | edit source]
- J.R.R. Tolkien: Life and Legend on Archive.org
References
- ↑ Historical context of the 2018 Bodleian Exhibition
- ↑ Chequers Clubbe Binge. 1914 on TolkienBooks.net
- ↑ Exeter College Smoker. 1913 on TolkienBooks.net
- ↑ Arden R. Smith, Patrick Wynne, "Tolkien and Esperanto", in SEVEN, Volume 17, p. 29