In return for the excellent meal I will give you one piece of advice for your good: don't have more to do with dwarves than you can help!

The Hobbit's Smaug illustrated by Israel Sanchez :: via israelsanchez.blogspot.ca

Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?

Rankin/Bass' The Hobbit album circa 1977 :: via Neato Coolville

I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure. 

The Hobbit illustrated by Clément De Ruyter :: via rat-and-cat.blogspot.ca

Little by little, one travels far.

J.R.R. Tolkien illustrated by Donato Giancola :: via muddycolors.blogspot.ca

"And I read Lord of the Rings until I no longer needed to read it any longer, because it was inside me." - Neil Gaiman

The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit book jackets designed by Adam Hanson :: via adamhansonart.com

I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.

illustration by Shane Jones :: via  thisishorrorbusiness.blogspot.com

...and then you wake up one day and realize that all you are doing is keeping Tolkien's grandchildren in 8,000 thread count Egyptian cotton sheets and solid gold toilet seat lids...

personal photo :: 2011 

Inaugural call for membership for The Lord of the Rings fanclub circa 1979.

Scanned from Famous Monsters of Filmland (Warren Publishing/1979) 

John Howe's (The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit motion picture concept designer) drawing reference materials.

Scanned from John Howe's Fantasy Art Workshop (David and Charles Ltd./2007)