Tolkien Init.

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Reflection in Rivendell: Tolkien’s Great Pattern and Hidden Imagery

This is Tolkien’s drawing Rivendell which features in The Hobbit. Can you see the man with the crown on his head hidden in the image? The man is the “King Under the Mountain” who has his sights set on Erebor in the distance.

 

 

Tolkien hid many things in his drawings as we’ll see next.