The Hobbit: An Illustrated Edition of the Fantasy Classic (The Lord of the Rings)

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And I particularly appreciated the precise use of punctuation, with inverted commas always correctly placed, and use being made of semi-colons. Then again, maybe Tolkien's ability to use a humble hero like Bilbo in a way you might not expect is what makes The Hobbit so brilliant! A brand new revised edition of the best-selling graphic novel based on the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings.

I particularly like the lush evocative illustrations of the Shire, and the atmospheric ones in the dragon’s cave. There are some interesting choices in what to include, as goes for any adaptations of prose novels to other mediums, and I probably would have cut some more of the endless descriptions of travels and stretched out some more adventures. An illustrated edition of the enchanting prequel to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit—the classic fantasy that inspired Peter Jackson’s major motion picture trilogy—in a newly expanded edition. David Wenzel credits both Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac as two of his influences, and this is quite evident in his work.To coincide with the upcoming The Hobbit movies, a new edition, with six new pages of artwork, was published on 12 September 2012. This graphic novel sticks very close to Tolkien's text, even including much of the narration, which is nice, but means it's not really an adaptation, like I was sort of hoping. As someone who on occasion dibble dabbles with paints and pencils (I'm not very good), I could really appreciate just how beautiful the artwork is and spent some time closely examining pages to see how elements were drawn. His books have been translated into over 40 languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone. While I very much this piece of art, it sort of looses contact with the illustrations that are used inside the book. Although both David Wenzel and Chuck Dixon are American, the language used is English, and much of it is straight from Tolkien, especially the dialogue in the speech bubbles.Tolkien's The Hobbit for Eclipse with artist David Wenzel between 1989 and 1990, and began writing Marc Spector: Moon Knight in June 1989.