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squire
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Jan 3 2017, 10:13pm
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At last, someone has illustrated the single most tantalizing scene in "The Hobbit"!
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I have been waiting for this for a long time. Alan Lee, where were you? John Howe - Ted Nasmith - David Wenzel - Michael Hague - even Ezpeleta: nothing! Rankin/Bass gave us our furry Smaug and froggy Gollum but walked away from this one. I accurately predicted that the recent film would also avoid this, even though it delivers the kind of full out nudity that the films' producers and writers should have grabbed with both hands, given their apparent need to jazz the book up with some sex and stuff.
As I just found out, though, our European friends never disappoint when it comes to proving Hollywood to be artistically shallow and timid. This blog, Brain Pickings, just published some amazing pictures from less-known editions of The Hobbit over the past five decades. And there we see that in 1979, bold Czech illustrator Jiri Salamoun went with his gut, and picked up on this famous passage from Chapter 7, after the Dwarves are delivered to the Carrock:
Then they took off their clothes and bathed in the river, which was shallow and clear and stony at the ford. When they had dried in the sun, which was now strong and warm, they were refreshed, if still sore and a little hungry. I know this is a family site, and Salamoun's painting is not for the kiddies, so click here.
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Ataahua
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Jan 3 2017, 11:35pm
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Is it wrong of me to think that the guy who is bent over (with his left arm flung high) is bowing in apprecation to the dwarf on the rock who is 'displaying' in all his glory?
Celebrimbor: "Pretty rings..."
Dwarves: "Pretty rings..."
Men: "Pretty rings..."
Sauron: "Mine's better."
"Ah, how ironic, the addictive qualities of Sauron’s master weapon led to its own destruction. Which just goes to show, kids - if you want two small and noble souls to succeed on a mission of dire importance... send an evil-minded beggar with them too." - Gandalf's Diaries, final par, by Ufthak.
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a.s.
Valinor
Jan 4 2017, 12:26am
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OK, much as I LOVE Brain Pickings, I think
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that the Princess Hobbits illustrations belong in that list somewhere!!
http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/princess.php
I mean, the one of Gollum chasing Bilbo is unquestionably the best illustration EVER.
a.s.
"an seileachan"
"A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds." JRR Tolkien, Letters.
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InTheChair
Rohan
Jan 4 2017, 7:05pm
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Hand me my tightie whities Bilbo.
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My memory say there a similar sort of scene at Rivendell where the dwarves and Bilbo wash up and bathe in the nude, and that in a place where you never know when the next elf might not pop around the corner.
Salamouns picture is worthy in intent, though I have to wonder about the authenticity of the Haines and the T-shirt?
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Asger
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Jan 5 2017, 9:51pm
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is in the EE-movie but obviously borrowed from the books Anduin-bath
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InTheChair
Rohan
Jan 8 2017, 4:34pm
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Thanks for putting me back on track.
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Ah crap. And I told myself I would not let the movies cloud my memory of Tolkien. We are helpless against the commercial hammering of Hollywood.
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sador
Half-elven
Jan 8 2017, 7:57pm
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Even to some who regularly disparage the movies.
All you can do is try the best to keep them separate.
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Earl
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Jan 31 2017, 2:02am
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The Dwarf in the white Calvin Kleins...
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... is way ahead of his time 
The Hobbit Soundtracks - Being an online archive of information concerning Howard Shore's score for The Hobbit films.
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