Tolkien Artwork

[Radaghast]

The quest to find a smaller hat for Frodo? 🫤

 

[Radaghast]

By Rémi Jacquot.

What in the ...

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

So Gollum was related to Shelob? Explains some things.

 

[Radaghast]

More weirdness. This one's by one Lester Abrams. Don't recall Gollum described as being furry...and what's he holding to Bilbo's neck? Speaking of Bilbo 😬

The Rankin & Bass production was influenced by this cover.

 

[Berzelmayr]

He's credited as the character designer for The Hobbit (1977), The Return of the King (1980) and The Last Unicorn (1982).

 

[Radaghast]

What scene is this supposed to be a depiction of? 🫤

For that matter, what is that big-hat Frodo scene supposed to represent?

 

[Radaghast]

Marlon Brando IS Bilbo Baggins!

Okay, just...what...?

 

[Deimos]

The quest to find a smaller hat for Frodo? 🫤

The quest to find Strider a clothier that wasn't used by the denizens of Sherwood Forest....?

 

[Deimos]

More weirdness. This one's by one Lester Abrams. Don't recall Gollum described as being furry...and what's he holding to Bilbo's neck? Speaking of Bilbo 😬
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The Rankin & Bass production was influenced by this cover.

I'm sorry but that drawing of Bilbo reminds me 'way too much of "no-neck" Toad

 

[Erurávennë]

I'm sorry but that drawing of Bilbo reminds me 'way too much of "no-neck" Toad

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The eccentric Mr. Toad?

 

[Deimos]

The eccentric Mr. Toad?

If you mean the pompous Toad of Toad Hall, yes. 😄

 

[Berzelmayr]

Roberts Rūrāns - The Return of the King (2026)
https://www.instagram.com/robertsrurans/

 

[Radaghast]

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Roberts Rūrāns - The Return of the King (2026)
https://www.instagram.com/robertsrurans/

Small turnout for Aragorn's coronation.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Do the two Aragorns help make up for it?

 

[Radaghast]

Do the two Aragorns help make up for it?

Second Aragorn forgot to dig a hole for the tree.

 

[Berzelmayr]

Bilbo at Bag End
by Raoul Vitale

Private CommissionsRaoul Vitale Art - Home

www.raoulvitaleart.com

 

[Idril Celebrindal]

More weirdness. This one's by one Lester Abrams. Don't recall Gollum described as being furry...and what's he holding to Bilbo's neck? Speaking of Bilbo 😬
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The Rankin & Bass production was influenced by this cover.

I know this is very specific, but Gollum kind of reminds me of that bird called Mayzie from Horton Hatches the Egg, I don't know why. They're both alike and unlike (is that a word?).

Makes sense why he wanted to eat Bilbo, if he's a bird and Bilbo is a toad.

 

[Deimos]

I know this is very specific, but Gollum kind of reminds me of that bird called Mayzie from Horton Hatches the Egg, I don't know why. They're both alike and unlike (is that a word?).
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Makes sense why he wanted to eat Bilbo, if he's a bird and Bilbo is a toad.

Do birds eat toads?
(And don't anyone reply "Oh toadally." 🙄)

 

[Radaghast]

I know this is very specific, but Gollum kind of reminds me of that bird called Mayzie from Horton Hatches the Egg, I don't know why. They're both alike and unlike (is that a word?).
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Makes sense why he wanted to eat Bilbo, if he's a bird and Bilbo is a toad.

Yes, unlike is a word, though the word you want is unalike.

 

[Deimos]

I know this is very specific, but Gollum kind of reminds me of that bird called Mayzie from Horton Hatches the Egg, I don't know why. They're both alike and unlike (is that a word?).

Actually (pax to Radaghast) you did use unlike correctly. And unalike is also correct.
Both are used as adjectives, predicate adjectives to be precise. The follow the verb "are" ..."They[are] alike and unlike."
Radaghast I believe is using unlike only as it has been used lately in the realm of social media as a verb....you "unlike" something.
But that is actually a misuse (no surprise there) ...the verb that should be used is dislike.

Be that as it may... Idril take heart, you are in the best of company.
Tolkien uses it in the TT exactly the way you used it.
In the chapter The Voice of Saruman, Gandalf, Aragorn, Theoden et al have ridden to Isengard and are now at the foot of Orthanc where Gandalf has summoned Saruman to "come forth."

"They looked up astonished, for they heard no sound of his coming; and they saw...an old man, swathed in a great cloak...His hair and beard were white, but strands of black still showed about his lips and ears."
"Like, and yet unlike," muttered Gimli. [Comparing Saruman's appearance to Gandalf's ].