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Tolkien Collector's Guide Season 1 Episode 17
The team at Tolkien Collector's Guide sit down to talk about Barbara Remington - an American illustrator who made the art for the first US paperback editions of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in 1965-66 as well as posters. Lions and Emus and Christmas(?) Trees, oh my!
Further information on Barbara Remington and her Tolkien art:
● Barbara Remington and the Infamous Hobbit Lion - www.tolkiengui...
● Connecting with History - an interview with Barbara Remington - www.tolkiengui...
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[@Secunda-xt2yx]

Remington’s covers are my favorite! The story behind their creation makes them extremely unique. In this instance, it doesn’t matter to me that they “don’t have anything to do” with the book material-they capture the spirit of vintage fantasy!

[@emmaphilo4049]

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I like these artworks, so psychedelic🤣🤣🤣🤣 Tolkien's answer really is a good example of English sarcasm, love it
He sounds like Gandalf

[@paulharvey5505]

Great video. First set of Lord of the Rings I read in the early 80s, was a set of the Remington covered paperbacks I got from my father. I'll be honest, other than Tolkien's artwork on the 60th anniversary hardcover set, this are my favorite artwork used for covers.

[@TolkienGuide]

They are certainly memorable! I (Urulókë) really like them too. 😁

[@TmRnBn]

These Remington works were my introduction to Tolkien way back when--These covers, along with W. Carlos' Switched-on-Bach synthesizer music have colored my impression of the entire story ever since. I see it as an impressionistic/surreal/psychodelic feast of dark-sharp colorful angles of danger and a return to home--somewhat scoured. It is mystery and a journey to the unknowable, and unfortunately the more recent covers kinda remove the mystical bits of mystery. I still must be listening to Carlos' synthesizer improv of the 2nd movement of Brandenburg No. 3 in G major when reading the chapter on Shelob. (from the original LP, not the later release).

[@dalenelson8254]

I wonder what the copyright situation is, as regards the mural (triptych), travel poster, and map by Remington. Surely whoever owns the Ballantine copyrights now, if they retain copyright in these items, would find it worthwhile to reprint them in high-fidelity reproductions. Certainly I would love to buy a complete suite of the three.
Another work of Tolkienian art that I'd love to see made available would be Tim Kirk's design for the Mirage Press hardcover book, A Guide to Middle-Earth. A very kind person gave me a copy of Mirage's publication of this design without text. Perhaps that dust wrapper size was the size of Kirk's original, but I wonder if the latter isn't larger and wouldn't make a handsome art print.
The third work of Tolkienian art that I long for is the loveliest of all, Pauline Baynes's triptych for the Allan and Unwin one-volume paperback edition of LotR. I'm not sure that there is anywhere a single work of art that, for me, better evokes Middle-earth. Might an art print of that work, without lettering, be made from the original?
All five of these are works of beauty that should appeal not only to people like me who remember them from many years ago, but for a new generation. They would be splendid works for homes and for public libraries and university libraries.
Dale Nelson

[@brianbuch1]

I was told by Ms. Remington that since this was the days of "work for hire" she was paid a flat fee for the work and never got anything at all for the later poster. All that money went to Ballantine.

[@TolkienGuide]

That’s my understanding too.