G. Eric Moorhouse: |
Middle Earth Calligraphy |
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While a student in Toronto many years ago, I purchased this beautiful little blank book, in which I began doodling and writing the poems from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. I was drawn to the challenge of working in a book with fixed pages (no pages of which have been removed) rather than starting with blank sheets of paper (which would have allowed me to discard my mistakes). |
Click on the thumbnail images below to reveal some of the more complete pages from that book, shown in actual size.
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One
Ring to rule them all ...
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a
facsimile of Tolkien's elvish calligraphy
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The
road goes ever on and on...
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My
favourite poem in the entire trilogy.
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Three rings for Elven-kings... Upon the hearth the fire is red...
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Probably
my favourite aspect of the Hobbit mindset is that every Hobbit that has
travelled abroad (certainly a minority of their race) has longed always
for the comforts of home, whereas a Hobbit at home lusts for adventure.
This dichotomy, which is particularly evident in these poems, is a recurring
theme throughout the trilogy.
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Snow-white! Snow-white! O Lady Clear!... Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go... |
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As
recorded in the Silmarillion, Varda (Queen of the Valar) placed the stars
in the sky. Here she places the seven stars of the Valacirca ("Sickle of the Valar"),
the constellation which we know as the Big Dipper.
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Sing hey! for the bath at the close fo the day... Farewll we call to hearth and hall... |
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O! Wanderers in the shadowed land... Hey! Come merry dol! derry dol! My darling!... |
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All
that is gold does not glitter...
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Under Construction
/ revised 2 November, 2007