Anna Smol: A Single Leaf

Tag: Catherine McIlwaine

  • Tolkien’s favourite landscape artist?

    It’s finally time to wake this blog up. Last semester’s heavy teaching load, some eldercare responsibilities, and research commitments meant that I had to focus on other things, but I foresee a more reasonable schedule now.  I have so many hoarded items I’ve been meaning to write about, so let’s start pretty much where I…

  • Tolkien art exhibition at the Bodleian

    Sometimes it’s hard to tell which comes first: is it the illustration and then the text, or does the text come first and then the illustration? That’s a question posed by Catherine McIlwaine, the Bodleian’s Tolkien Archivist, as she reviews some of Tolkien’s artwork with illustrator Alan Lee. And that’s exactly the question that my…