For #OCTOBER 1977
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'Orodruin - Mt Doom - Sam’s path'
Sketch by #JRRTolkien (1892-1973)
‘In this sketch is seen the “long sloping causeway that led up on to the Mountain's eastern side” carrying Sauron's Road from Barad-dûr up to the dark entrance of the Sammath Naur.➡️
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‘This painting of the Lonely Mountain, which shows the ruins of Dale in the bend of the Running River, was published in The J. R. R. Tolkien Calendar 1979’. - Christopher Tolkien, Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien. Illustrations by by J. R. R. Tolkien (George Allen and Unwin [UK], Houghton Mifflin [US] 1979) (http://www.slideshare.net/leonardorosati1675/pictures-by-jrr-tolkien)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lcxdn7fcxeec4lw454ihzair/bafkreibk3dsxivc3q7yykebaeaofq2agzipjfycsjg6m7pnbx5pvtwk4nu)
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‘The original was published in the first impression of The Hobbit, 1937 (in Chapter 11, On the Doorstep). The coloured version by H. E. Riddett was made for The Hobbit Calendar 1976 and has been used in some illustrated editions of the book’. - Christopher Tolkien, Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien. Illustrations by by J. R. R. Tolkien (George Allen and Unwin [UK], Houghton Mifflin [US] 1979) (http://www.slideshare.net/leonardorosati1675/pictures-by-jrr-tolkien)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lcxdn7fcxeec4lw454ihzair/bafkreiccjhbniex3rvxsydkjuu7akxjwtmxkw6prdu2pjfhjralut6zxmq)
