PowerOfBabel

The first picture shows Gandalf by Tim Kirk. Tim Kirk produced one of the first Tolkien Calendars (1975) not illustrated with art by Tolki...

Sometime in the latter half of the 1920's, J. R. R. Tolkien purchased a postcard reproducing a painting by Josef Madlener called Der B...

Misleadingly marketed as "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!" tie-in toys, these are available at the CVS Pharmacies at ...

Today's first Bilbo is from a 1945 Swedish edition. He looks kind of like a genie, or a gypsy, or Jiggs from the old "Bringing Up...

These Bilbos are all from foreign editions of The Hobbit . Behold the wonder of Bilbo Baggins filtered through other cultures. The first ...

All of these Bilbos are by the Greg and Tim Hildebrandt , known when they painted together as the Brothers Hildebrandt . Greg and Tim were...

The first Bilbo shown here is from the production design of the Rankin/Bass animated show of the 1970's. Although this design was softe...