Toggle menu
Toggle preferences menu
Toggle personal menu
Not logged in
Please sign up or log in to edit the wiki.

File:J.R.R. Tolkien - The Shores of Faery.png

File on Tolkien Gateway

Original file(1,000 × 815 pixels, file size: 1.08 MB, MIME type: image/png)

Summary

Description

This is the earliest illustration of Tolkien's secondary world, painted when he was a student at Oxford. It shows the city of the Elves in Valinor, framed by the Two Trees bearing the light of the sun and the moon.[1] Originally published in J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator.

Date 10 May, 1915
Tolkien Art Index TAI #211
Author J.R.R. Tolkien
Source The Silmarillion (illustrated by author), HarperCollins, 2022
License

This work is copyrighted and owned by the Tolkien Estate. It is believed that the limited use of this file,

qualifies as fair use under copyright law in the United States of America.


References

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current22:29, 2 February 2026Thumbnail for version as of 22:29, 2 February 20261,000 × 815 (1.08 MB)PLord (talk | contribs)better quality
06:15, 18 September 2025Thumbnail for version as of 06:15, 18 September 2025756 × 1,000 (1.12 MB)Paccyd33 (talk | contribs)
16:13, 2 September 2012Thumbnail for version as of 16:13, 2 September 2012523 × 465 (281 KB)Sage (talk | contribs)==Summary== Drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien and originally published in ''J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator''. ==Licensing== {{Fairuse-Tolkien}} Category:Images by J.R.R. Tolkien

The following 3 pages use this file:

Metadata