The next time you watch a comedy movie, see if you can picture the star engaging in fisticuffs with a criminal and taking ...

Throughout the pages, you’ll find a number of color illustrations and sketches produced by the author, along with poster-sized maps of Middle-earth and other mementos.

He sketches everywhere, with a fountain pen, often returns to make color sketches in gouache. By fall he is ready to start on the year’s oils, which he finishes, all more or less together ...