Tag: JRR Tolkien
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The idle doodles of JRR Tolkien
The Bodleian Library in Oxford retains 500 boxes of doodles and other drawings by JRR Tolkien in a fireproof room. For 30 years as a university professor, the English writer and the father of modern fantasy drew on everything from newspapers, advertising collateral, and menus. In fact, Tolkien doodled the first line of The Hobbit…