Title: Dust jacket design for The Fellowship of the Ring
Artist: J.R.R. Tolkien

1954

This is one of five different dust jacket designs that Tolkien drew for the first volume of The Lord of the Rings. The One Ring featured prominently in all the designs, here opposed by the three Elven rings. MS. Tolkien Drawings 90, fol. 24. Reproduced with kind permission of The Tolkien Estate Limited for the Bodleian Libraries exhibition Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth.

© The Tolkien Trust 1992.