Hobbit Tolkien's Hobbit Revealed cover 3a with a larger Tolkien Kindle All to Flames full

I am like a street musician on this page. So if you learn something on this page, buy something on this page. It￿s the honour system. Little... more

by Glen McDonald

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20.500 x 29.500 inches

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Hobbit Tolkien's Hobbit Revealed cover 3a with a larger Tolkien Kindle All to Flames full

Artist

Glen McDonald

Medium

Painting - Watercolour

Description

I am like a street musician on this page. So if you learn something on this page, buy something on this page. It￿s the honour system. Little given ￿ little expected; Much given ￿ much expected.


Bilbo￿s imagined dragon, in the form of Draco and the Little Dipper joined at the Pole Star, sweep-out the Milky Way as fire falling on Hobbiton and Bag-End .
The Big Dipper￿s guide-stars point to Polaris from nearly overhead, Hercules is to the right of the dragon￿s head, Andromeda is settling into the building between the foreground trees on the left, and Perseus follows her from the middle left.
This painting is a match for Gandalf as a ￿Good-morning￿ (February). I have converted Oxford￿s Tidmarsh Lane and the Oxford Mound into Hobbiton and Bag-End by altering just a few things.


H26.02-.04
AD April 16/26 April SC
The jewels of the dwarves are figuratively stars, and their caverns 167.19 of jewels serve them as the dome of the sky 24.26. Of Durin in Moria, Gimli sang;
LR308.19-.26
This little section of The Hobbit urges us to take the author￿s metaphors and similes seriously. Jewels may shine like stars, and stars are like jewels too, and many things besides.
Of the flame; the deep windows of Bag-End face south and turn gradually west, and offer no view of bright stars rising in the south-east, such as Antaries at 11:23 this night. Rather than stars flaring up east of the meridian, Bilbo would more likely see stars flaring out west of it. Strangely, blazing Morwinyon/Arcturus is known to have been dropped into the western sky by Varda as she hurried to Valinor , but that was at the coming of the Eldar to Valinor; before the rounding of the world. Arcturus may have been revealed from behind a cloud near the meridian, mid-sky. But, I think the flame was simply a flame, not a star or some such, unless Bilbo is on the very west of the window, or the windows are not as deep set as I have believed.



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October 25th, 2013