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The Hobbit ring that may have inspired Tolkien put on show | Books | The Guardian

In what was once the housekeeper’s office of a Tudor mansion in Hampshire, a very odd golden ring glitters on a revolving stand in a tall perspex column. In chapter five of The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins finds a ring in the gloom of Gollum’s cave. Not just any ring. “One very beautiful thing, very beautiful, very wonderful. He had a ring, a golden ring, a precious ring.”

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Production year: 2011
Country: Rest of the world
Cert (UK): 12A
Runtime: 169 mins
Directors: Peter Jackson
Cast: Aidan Turner, Andy Serkis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Billy Connolly, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Elijah Wood, Evangeline Lilly, Hugo Weaving, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, Lee Pace, Luke Evans, Martin Freeman, Orlando Bloom, Richard Armitage, Sir Ian McKellen, Stephen Fry
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A new exhibition opening today at The Vyne, now owned by the National Trust, raises the intriguing possibility that the Roman ring in the case, and the ring of power in JRR Tolkien’s book The Hobbit, and in his Lord of the Rings trilogy, are one and the same.

"According to Penguin’s year-end financial report, Thomas Pynchon’s next novel will deal with “Silicon Alley between dotcom boom collapse and 9/11”. The title is Bleeding Edge."

— Pynchon’s next novel is about Silicon Alley

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Tove Jansson

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Pre-made Paperback Covers | BOOK GRAPHICS

A collection of ebook covers for sale that makes me want to write every single one of these awful, awful books

Edgar Allan Poe death scenes - graphic

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An infographic I did with some chums.

Lovely work from Adam Frost, Jamie Lenman & Jim Kynvin (I work with these splendid people!)

(via My 6-year-old Judges Books by the Covers, from No Exit to 50 Shades of Grey | Strollerderby)

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“Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?” ― James Thurber

"More importantly, the collection features a heartfelt introduction from the legendary stop-motion pioneer Ray Harryhausen. Best fact about the two Rays: Harryhausen and Bradbury knew each other as teenagers. Harryhausen captured the attention of a young Bradbury because the latter Ray noticed the former Ray making weird dinosaur masks. The pair wore the dinosaur masks to a local movie theater and were dinosaur buddies for the rest of their lives."

— Five Seldom Mentioned Bradbury Creations You Need to Check Out | Tor.com

Two of your favourite flavours: Kate Beaton & M R James

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The quintessential Charles Dickens novel

Created & designed by (extremely clever and talented) people I work with. Awesome job, gang.