RE: also sprach Tolkien

Jim, this is what I know, he started the Simarillion and some of the stuff
later incorporated into LOtR around the time he fought in the battle of the
Somme but it was mostly pieces, he wrote the Hobbit before he wrote the LOtR
in the form that it was published in. He wrote On Fairy-stories at about
the same time he was writing LOtR for publication. He drew and painted
quite a bit through out his life but more so when he was younger. His
comments I quoted were for stories on fairie and had allot to do with his
thoughts on myth, and what he and Lewis often called the Other. I applied
them to writing in general in my Email to Scottie, Tolkien as far as I know
didn't. His Father Christmas Stories were never classified as Fairy stories
by Tolkien nor his children as far as I know (ditto for Roverrandom). If
You'll notice, there are no illustrations in LOtR nor The Simarillion. I
have a book with many of his drawings and paintings but it was published
well after his death. Tolkien loved language and he, as well as Lewis,
Barfield, and Williams, had a vivid imagination that was very visual so I am
not surprised that he wrote as well as painted. Now after the writing of
the essay he never illustrated his fairy stories but I think the publishers
often did using Pauline Baynes. So Jim, I am sure his kids like pictures
and so did he but he like words an awful lot too.
Daniel

well, yeah....but does the idea change from private correspondence to
public? Do you think he may not have illustrated them if they weren't
exclusively for his children? I bet in these works he was probably
going on the premise that "Kids Like Pictures, " or at least, "My Kids
Like Pictures," so illustrated them.

Jim
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