Hello Fellow Tolkien Nerds,
This week I am happy to share with you about The Morgan Library Exhibit on Tolkien. The museum offers a variety of exhibits. From John Singer, Guernico, and Verdi.
If you do not have time to go to the exhibit a short video explaining fact about Tolkien. Through this video you learn vast information about Tolkien. He was the pioneer for fantasy literature in the 20th century. Before anyone had created a complex fictional world. He created new languages, history, and created new races. Tolkien knew twelve different languages.
The exhibition displays different photos of illustrations and photos. However there are very few information about the pieces displayed. There are 20 pieces shown online, but if you go to the exhibit you will see more pieces. The museum fails to show enough pieces about Tolkien. Other museums have more pieces and influences Tolkien had on other others.The exhibit went from January 2019 to May 2019.
If you are dissatisfied with this exhibition take a look at an exhibit in Paris at BNF. The "Tolkien, voyage en Terre du Milieu" [Tolkien, A Journey to Middle Earth] exhibition - running from October 22, 2019 to February 16, 2020 at the BNF aims at making fans discover more about the universe of the British writer, a huge genius of his time.
This week I am happy to share with you about The Morgan Library Exhibit on Tolkien. The museum offers a variety of exhibits. From John Singer, Guernico, and Verdi.
If you do not have time to go to the exhibit a short video explaining fact about Tolkien. Through this video you learn vast information about Tolkien. He was the pioneer for fantasy literature in the 20th century. Before anyone had created a complex fictional world. He created new languages, history, and created new races. Tolkien knew twelve different languages.
The exhibition displays different photos of illustrations and photos. However there are very few information about the pieces displayed. There are 20 pieces shown online, but if you go to the exhibit you will see more pieces. The museum fails to show enough pieces about Tolkien. Other museums have more pieces and influences Tolkien had on other others.The exhibit went from January 2019 to May 2019.
If you are dissatisfied with this exhibition take a look at an exhibit in Paris at BNF. The "Tolkien, voyage en Terre du Milieu" [Tolkien, A Journey to Middle Earth] exhibition - running from October 22, 2019 to February 16, 2020 at the BNF aims at making fans discover more about the universe of the British writer, a huge genius of his time.
This exhibition– said to be the greatest French retrospective dedicate to J.R.R.Tolkien (1892-1973) unveils about 300 pieces covering 1000sqm and thought up as "an invitation to travel to the heart of Tolkien's imaginary geography"!
On the occasion, the BNF teamed up with the Tolkien Estate and the Tolkien family and joined forces with the Bodley library from the Oxford university that displayed the "JRR Tolkien: Maker of Middle-Earth" exhibition from June to October 2018.
The first part of the exhibition highlights a series of chapters, a sort of journey to Middle-Earth, from the Shire to Mordor, then beyond, to Valinor. Each territory gives the occasion to approach literary, cultural or even linguistic questions. Tolkien's original manuscripts and drawings, thoroughly calligraphed and illustrated with sketches and doodles are true masterpieces to see at least once in your life.
Around Tolkien's many manuscripts, often illustrated by British drawer Alan Lee, the exhibition offers us to approach the universe created by the writer, from the landscapes to its peoples, to its languages, all invented by this language and medieval literature teaching at the Oxford university now known by everyone.
-SWS
Around Tolkien's many manuscripts, often illustrated by British drawer Alan Lee, the exhibition offers us to approach the universe created by the writer, from the landscapes to its peoples, to its languages, all invented by this language and medieval literature teaching at the Oxford university now known by everyone.
-SWS
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