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Tove Jansson illustrated The Hobbit for the Swedish and Finnish editions, creating a dozen enchanting full page drawings plus many smaller vignette pieces. The artwork is now going to be featured in the official Tolkien Calendar for 2016. How exciting is that? Read One has to ask why The Lord of the Rings is so popular. What are its peculiar qualities? Time and again it tops, or is a runner up with honours, in various best book reader-voted contests. What is in it that it reaches out to so many. What is it about the book and its Research has shown that students' reading book choices are highly dependent on trending movies or even series. This means that a little known book can become an overnight success due to a great movie adaptation. Read article It is an indisputable fact that despite the today's increase in the children's books with urban fantasies, the Tolkien's fantasy books still hold the number one position in children's reading lists. Read article The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien,The Story of Kullervo HarperCollins have officially announced the world first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the powerful story of a doomed young man who is sold into sl*very and who swears revenge on the magician who killed his father. Read article Most History of Middle-earth limited editions come each in an individual slipcase, but this set is one of the very few sets that was released with all three volumes together in one slipcase. This rare set is now available in the TolkienLibrary store. Read article A first edition copy of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit was sold at Sotheby's auction house in London for 137,000 Sterling Pounds. This more than doubled the world record and makes this copy of The Hobbit the most expensive in the world. Read article Building on his recent investigations into the relationship of Middle-earth to Tolkien's scholarly search for the lost traditions of