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Bilbo's Front Hall
Bag End
45.8 x 35.9 cm, 1995
There and Back Again: The Map of the Hobbit
Brian Sibley
HarperCollinsPublishers
April 3, 2000
ISBN-10: 0261103261
ISBN-13: 978-0261103269
Mary Butler, on whose capable if occasionally weary shoulders rested the day-to-day burdens of Tolkien publishing, said to me: "Right, I want the door on the front cover and remember there's tons of copy on the back. No Bilbo please, and leave the door open."
What can you reply to that? I sat down and got to work. Thank you Mary, it's become one of my happier pictures.
I dutifully hauled out my copy of the Hobbit, with professor Tolkien's rendering of the front hall, and started sketching. I also own Switzerland's largest collection of books (five) on Norwegian medieval churches, and these were my principal inspiration. Some of the furniture is from our house, (and the seat on the left would be if only I could afford it) and the rest fell into place quite spontaneously.
It's since become something you can actually walk into - in two scales, no less: human and hobbit - but that's entirely another subject.
There and Back Again : The Map of the Hobbit - Czech Republic
There and Back Again : The Map of the Hobbit - Spain
There and Back Again: The Map of the Hobbit - France
There and Back Again: The Map of the Hobbit - Germany
There And Back Again: The Map of the Hobbit - Poland
Random House Audio: The Hobbit
Random House Audio: The Hobbit - cassettes (front)
Random House Audio: The Hobbit - CD
The Maps of Tolkien's Middle-Earth
The Maps of Tolkien's Middle-Earth
The Maps of Tolkien's Middle-Earth - Slip case (front)
The Hobbit - Holland
The Hobbit - Holland (Mass market paperback)
The Hobbit - Iceland (back)
Muse Magazine
The Tolkien Library - Stories: Farmer Giles of Ham, Leaf by Niggle & Smith of Wootton Major (Spain)
Unauthorized:
The Hobbit - Turkey (back)
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