Pictures (in a book)

Usage examples of illustrations.

But if your firm really think that he is worth publishing, I will try and make the illustrations more easy to reproduce.

This is due to no plan, but occurs simply because I failed to reduce the other illustrations to even passable shape.

Allen & Unwin, however, thought 'it would be better if all the illustrations were from your hand'.

In any case I agree that all the illustrations ought to be by the same hand: four professional pictures would make my own amateurish productions look rather silly.

I have seen American illustrations that suggest that excellent things might be produced – only too excellent for their companions.

They also told him that they had forwarded his letter about illustrations (no.

But since leathery soles, and well-brushed furry feet are a feature of essential hobbitness, he ought really to appear unbooted, except in special illustrations of episodes.

He has sent me some illustrations (of the Trolls and Gollum) which despite certain merits, such as one would expect of a German, are I fear too 'Disnified' for my taste: Bilbo with a dribbling nose, and Gandalf as a figure of vulgar fun rather than the Odinic wanderer that I think of.

Well, if you think that illustrations of this sort, wholly out of keeping with the style or manner of the text, will do, or will for reasons of contemporary taste be an advantage, I am so far in your hands.

As well as the maps, Tolkien had initially offered only the two illustrations mentioned earlier in this letter, both of which were in black and white.