The One Ring Forums: Tolkien Topics: Movie Discussion: The Hobbit:
The drawing of young Bilbo

Lissuin Valinor Feb 3 2013, 9:33am Views: 1355 The drawing of young Bilbo seems to have been done by Daniel Reeve. From his website, see news for Dec. 13. http://www.danielreeve.co.nz/...2.php#29November2012 Or has anyone seen any other information on it?

Kirly Lorien Feb 3 2013, 3:37pm Views: 680 If you look at the news archive for 12 Dec, it specifically says (here: http://www.danielreeve.co.nz/archive2.php) under a banner containing the drawing of young Bilbo, "Work by Graphic Artist, Daniel Reeve, is featured throughout the film - a few examples (but by no means all) are shown above." That's definitive enough for me. By the way, a meeting with Daniel Reeve was was part of The Lord of the Rings Movie Location Tour with Red Carpet Tours. Like most Kiwis, he seemed to be an exceptionally pleasant person. Even gave us all a small sample of his calligraphy. Absolutely lovely person. My avatar photo is Lake Tekapo in New Zealand's South Island. Taken by me in 2004 on a Red Carpet Tours LOTR Movie Location Tour. 'Twas the Vacation of a Lifetime! pictures taken while on the tour are here: https://picasaweb.google.com/Kirly7/LOTRNewZealandTour#

Lily Fairbairn Half-elven Feb 3 2013, 6:53pm Views: 580 Yes I, too, met Daniel Reeve on a Red Carpet tour. An absolutely delightful and exceedingly pleasant person---as well as a very talented artist!

dernwyn Forum Admin / Moderator Feb 3 2013, 8:24pm Views: 578 "Exceptional" is so right! Have you seen The Map? He is such a delightful artist, he even created a Map of TheOneRing.net Message Boards from a list (pile?) of mere ideas! Here's the "Conspiracy Unmasked" thread: http://newboards.theonering.net/...hreaded;post=42379;" What it was all about: http://newboards.theonering.net/...hreaded;post=42380;" And here's a good pic of his Map:http://newboards.theonering.net/...threaded;post=42383; ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I desired dragons with a profound desire"

Kirly Lorien Feb 3 2013, 9:55pm Views: 535 I have seen The Map of New Zealand of MiddleEarth in person. But I haven't the things you've linked to. I shall have to take a peek! My avatar photo is Lake Tekapo in New Zealand's South Island. Taken by me in 2004 on a Red Carpet Tours LOTR Movie Location Tour. 'Twas the Vacation of a Lifetime! pictures taken while on the tour are here: https://picasaweb.google.com/Kirly7/LOTRNewZealandTour#

Loresilme Valinor Feb 3 2013, 10:08pm Views: 521 I still have mine up on my wall And it never fails to make me smile . Very happy memories there!

Lily Fairbairn Half-elven Feb 3 2013, 10:14pm Views: 532 Same here--the TORn map makes me smile     As you can see by my grin when I had my photo taken with Daniel and his copy of it I'm pointing to my own name in the margin. My own copy of the map is hanging on the wall beside me at this very moment.

Loresilme Valinor Feb 3 2013, 11:12pm Views: 505 You met him :-)?! That's wonderful! He was so amazingly friendly and great to work with. And his story is one that I find so inspirational. How he had his ordinary life and ordinary job, and just followed his heart with his LOTR calligraphy in his own time all those years, and then one day (like Gandalf in reverse, sort of, lol), he sent out his work to the film makers, and poof, his whole life changed in such a remarkable way. And he *so* deserves it - he is immensely talented. That's a great photo :-). And btw, I just peeked at my map and I see your name is only two names away from mine, lol !!

sevilodorf Tol Eressea Feb 4 2013, 2:18am Views: 472 My copy is over my shoulder My daughter had never really paid attention to Mom's obession about LOTR but the Hobbit has grabbed her attention and she finally made the connection between the map in the Chronicles book and the one hanging on my wall. Fourth Age Adventures at the Inn of the Burping Troll http://burpingtroll.com

TheHutt Gondor Feb 4 2013, 1:47pm Views: 441 Daniel... ...is really a nice guy. I interviewed him for our Russian site once when he was in Germany for the RingCon. I got him to sign my Shire map from Decipher. :) Russian LotR/Hobbit Site: Henneth-annun.ru - the Russian LOTR site

Lily Fairbairn Half-elven Feb 4 2013, 2:29pm Views: 414 The joys of alphabetical order! //

Loresilme Valinor Feb 7 2013, 3:40pm Views: 468 Same here! TH got my daughter's attention too - so she finally asked me if "that map on the wall' is a map of LOTR (i.e, Middle-earth). So I tried to explain 'it sort of is, but not really' ... and then realized it is a little tough to explain to someone outside of the boards, exactly what it *is* a map of !