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Fantasy! 🐉 Art, books, games, movies, shows and music with dragons, elves, wizards and orcs. Sharing and reposting #fantasy stuff made by humans, no products of artificial intelligence. Other account: @gourdwick.bsky.social
![‘This painting, to illustrate the first words of Chapter 7 of The Hobbit (Queer Lodgings), was not used in the first English impression to contain coloured pictures, but appeared in the first American edition, 1938. It was reproduced in The J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar 1973 and 1974 and in The Hobbit Calendar 1976. The eagle was inspired by the painting of a Golden Eagle by Archibald Thorburn.’ - Christopher Tolkien, *Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien* Illustrations by by J. R. R. Tolkien (George Allen and Unwin [UK], Houghton Mifflin [US] 1979)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lcxdn7fcxeec4lw454ihzair/bafkreiffuokabg5rbvjyhhvpkf53n3sm5g4fpdmo2wr4thjs2hpywnhgyq)
