Title: parma mittarion
Artist: J.R.R. Tolkien

c.1957

These striking geometric patterns may have been intended as a book cover design. The title is written in the Elvish language, Quenya, using the Elvish script, Tengwar, and it means 'book of enterings'. MS. Tolkien Drawings 91, fol. 22. Reproduced with kind permission of The Tolkien Estate Limited for the Bodleian Libraries exhibition Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth.

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