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Rare #Tolkien artworks on display─── 08:00 Sat, 02 Jun 2018
Rare artworks by JRR Tolkien, which have never been displayed before, are included in a major new exhibition on the Lord of the Rings author's life.
BBC reports that "Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth" on show at the Bodleian Libraries' Weston Library in Oxford brings together an array of items from the UK, the US and France.
Many of them have not been in the city since Tolkien's death in 1973.
Three unseen Tolkien artworks and numerous personal effects are on show.
There are also various manuscripts, maps and letters from the Bodleian Library's Tolkien archive, the Tolkien collection from Marquette University in Wisconsin and several private collections.
Personal effects - such as Tolkien's briefcase, the colour pencils he used to create the artwork for Lord of the Rings and boxes of poster paints that he used for water colours in The Hobbit - have been lent to the Bodleian by his family.
Tolkien's tobacco pipes are also included.
