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AHA -- caught you reacting. 😄
To clarify (not that you need clarification) what I meant by "early" was that very little Tolkien art had been published, other than in fanzines, at the time Kirk was painting the 25 works he did for his 1973 Master's thesis. I imagine he'd have been working on them as early as '71 or '72. Ballantine bought some for the 1975 calendar, where they even asked for submissions for future calendars.
How things have changed.
(Of course, I don't need to tell you all this 😉)
To clarify (not that you need clarification) what I meant by "early" was that very little Tolkien art had been published, other than in fanzines, at the time Kirk was painting the 25 works he did for his 1973 Master's thesis. I imagine he'd have been working on them as early as '71 or '72. Ballantine bought some for the 1975 calendar, where they even asked for submissions for future calendars.
How things have changed.
(Of course, I don't need to tell you all this 😉)