Featuring the works of:

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Ted Nasmith

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Cor Blok

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Peter Pracownik

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JRR Tolkien

ADC Art & Books catalogue 2014

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The works of Ted Nasmith - oRIGINAL Paintings

Conversation with Smaug Size: 17 inches x 13.5 inches

Price: £7000

The Riddle Game Size: 12 inches x 14.5 inches

Price: £5000

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The works of Ted Nasmith - oRIGINAL Paintings

Barrel Rider Size:18 inches x 24 inches (Framed)

Price: £6000

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Nauglimir Size: TBA

Price: £3000

The works of Ted Nasmith - Greetings Cards

Packs of all 12 cards with envelopes and quotations £10 plus postage

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The works of Ruth Lacon - oRIGINAL Paintings - Roverandom Whole set for sale for £8000 - one large & 8 small Little Rovers Big Mistake Size:

Psamathos the Sandsorceror helps Roverandom Size:

Roveradom arrives on the moon Size:

Escape! Roverandom and Moon-Rover flee the White Dragon Size:

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Roverandom flies to the Moon Size: 36.5 inches x 29 inches

The works of Ruth Lacon - oRIGINAL Paintings - Roverandom & Mr bliss In the Mer-King’s Palace: Roverandom meets Sea-Rover

Oooops! The Great SeaSerpent is Bitten Size:

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Roveradom gets his own shape back Size:

Roverandom and Little Boy Two are reunited Size:

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On all cards outside back: Artist Ruth Lacon Illustrations inspired by JRR Tolkien Contact ADC Art & Books www.adcbooks.co.uk [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)7785 110512 Illustrations © Ruth Lacon

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Set of 8 Roverandom cards £7.50

On all cards outside back: Artist Ruth Lacon Illustrations inspired by JRR Tolkien Contact ADC Art & Books www.adcbooks.co.uk [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)7785 110512 Illustrations © Ruth Lacon

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The works of Ruth Lacon - Original Paintings

Beorn and the Dancing Bears Size: TBA

Price: £2250

Niggle’s first sight of the Tree Size: 28 inches x 36 inches

Price: £3000

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The works of Cor Blok - Collection of Original art, book & prints Frodo caught in the Barrow-downs Original Art

TheParty Arrested

The Nagzul at Minis Tirith

Original Art

Original Art

Black Rider at the Ferry

The Shire view of Bywater

The Company ascent of Caradhras

The Cow jumped over the Moon

Limited Print 3/20

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Limited Print 3/20

All original art, prints and signed copy of ‘A Tolkien Tapestry’ - £10,000 13

The works of Peter Pracownik - The Lord of the Rings Each of these Original Paintings, inspired by the Lord of the Rings measure 15 x 19.5 inches Gimli’s Axe Price £400

Elendil’s Shield Price £550 Shield of Gondor Price £550

Narsil Price £550

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Mithril Shirt Price £550

Gwaihir Price £550 Morgul Blade Price £400

Shield of Rohan Price £400

The works of Peter Pracownik - The Lord of the Rings Each of these Original Paintings, inspired by the Lord of the Rings measure 15 x 19.5 inches Spiders Web Price £400

Smaug TreasurePrice £400

The Prancing Pony (Bree) Price £550

The Green Dragon Price £550

Wargs Price £550

The Red Arrow Price £550

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The works of Peter Pracownik - Tolkien Inspired Limited Edition Prints One White Tree Limited to 100 Size: 16x20 inches approx. Price £125, unframed.

The Company Limited to 100 Size: 24x16 inches approx. Price £125, unframed.

Return of the King Limited to 100 Size: 16x20 inches approx. Price £125, unframed.

Map of Middle Earth Limited to 100 Size: 20x28 inches approx. Price £125, unframed.

Old Whiteface Limited to 100 Size: 16x22 inches approx. Price £125, unframed.

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The works of Peter Pracownik - Tolkien Inspired Limited Edition Prints Lord of the Rings

My Precious - Gollum Limited to 100 Size: 16x21 inches approx. Price £125, unframed.

Limited to 100 Size: 18x25 inches approx. Price £125, unframed.

Elven Prince Limited to 100 Size: 16x22 inches approx. Price £125, unframed.

Gollum Limited to 100 Size: 23 inches x 18 inches Price £125 unframed

The Way is Closed Limited to 100 Size: 14x19 inches approx. Price £125, unframed.

Middle Earth Limited to 100 Size: 18x28 inches approx. Price £125, unframed.

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Original Art - JRRTolkien Artist: JRR Tolkien Title: New Lodge at Stonyhurst Date: August 1947 A wonderful colour drawing 150mm x 185mm (unframed), titled, dated and initialled, inscribed to rear, `for Mr & Mrs Bailey in memory of a beautiful holiday, August 1947, J.R.R.T. Provenance; by direct descent. On several occasions J.R.R. Tolkien stayed at New Lodge when visiting Stonyhurst College. The inscription is to the then occupiers of the Lodge. The foreground of the picture contains runner beans in full flower. Comparisons have been drawn between this scene and the view of Tom Bombadil`s house in the Fellowship of the Ring (p.139); `Frodo ran to the eastern window, and found himself looking into a kitchen-garden grey with dew .., his view was screened by a tall line of beans on poles; but above and far beyond them the grey top of the hill loomed up ... and the red flowers on the beans began to glow against the wet green leaves` . see Hammond (Wayne G.) & Scull (Christina), J.R.R. Tolkien, Artist and Illustrator, 2004, p. 31-2] The JRR Tolkien Companion & Guide, Chronology p299, Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond 25th March to 1st April 1946. Tolkien stays at New Lodge Stonyhurst Lancashire where his son John has stayed several times in the period 1942-1945. In the register Tolkien firmly declares himself “English” rather than (as in other entries) “British”. In a letter to Stanley Unwin on 21 July 1946 he will say that he came “near to a real breakdown” around this time, and went away and “ate and slept and did nothing else, by orders, but only for three weeks, and not for the six months my doctor prescribed… but I came back to a term so troublous that it was all I could do to get through it”. (Tolkien- George Allen & Unwin archive, Harper Collins).

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The JRR Tolkien Companion & Guide, Chronology p301, Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond 26th June to 4th July 1946. Tolkien and his wife stay at New Lodge Stonyhurst. Edith signs the visitors’ book first and dittoes from the previous entry “British” as her nationality, Tolkien does the same, Edith writes in the “remarks” column “A very enjoyable visit”, which Tolkien dittoes in agreement. This is the first holiday they have had alone together for over twenty years. The JRR Tolkien Companion & Guide, Chronology p321, Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond 12-21st August 1947. Tolkien and Priscilla (daughter) stay at New Lodge Stonyhurst. In the Guest Book they sign their nationality as “English” (not British). During the visit Tolkien makes a drawing, New Lodge Stonyhurst, which he gives to the owner of the establishment. On 21st September Tolkien write to Stanley Unwin: “For a few days my daughter and I had there blazing sun, a rare commodity in those parts, and abundant food, less rare there than in some other places” (Tolkien- George Allen & Unwin archive, Harper Collins). Published in JRR Tolkien Artist & Illustrator fig 28 Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull New Lodge, Stonyhurst depicts the garden of the guest house at which Tolkien stayed in Stonyhurst, Lancashire on three occasions. Tolkien made the drawing in August 1947 and gave it to the family who owned New Lodge. The drawing is featured in J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator, fig. 28

Original Art - JRRTolkien Extract from The Lancashire Evening Telegraph Thursday 26th July 2001 Inspired by beauty of Lancashire countryside SCHOLARS have long believed that Professor JRR Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, regularly visited Stonyhurst College in the Ribble Valley. They knew that one of his sons, Michael, taught classics at Stonyhurst and St Mary’s Hall in the 1960s and ‘70s and that his eldest son, John, who was studying for the priesthood, was evacuated with the English College in Rome to St Mary’s Jesuit seminary during the Second World War. South African-born John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973), an Oxford professor, is one of the world’s most popular fiction writers. But proof that he stayed in the Ribble Valley had remained hidden until the recent discovery of a college visitors’ book in which his name appears many times between 1942-47. Another astonishing find was his sketch of the guest house, New Lodge, on the back of which is a personal note to the owners thanking them for a wonderful holiday. The detective work has been done by Jonathan Hewat, a teacher at St Mary’s Hall, who uncovered the evidence as part of proposals to launch a new Tolkien library and study centre at St Mary’s. The woman he obtained the guest book and sketch from wishes to remain anonymous, but she is the daughter of the guest house owners in the 1940s. She remembers Tolkien visiting and being told as a child to be very quiet while he stayed at New Lodge, which is now used as staff accommodation. The first part of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Fellowship of the Rings -- starring, among others, veteran British actor Christopher “Dracula” Lee -- is due to be released as a film later this year. The two remaining films, which have already been shot, will be released 12 and 24 months after the first one’s arrival on the big screen. Mr Hewat said: “It was during his time spent staying at Stonyhurst College that JRR Tolkien penned the long-awaited story of The Lord of the Rings, encouraged to do so by numerous requests from those who had read and loved The Hobbit.

“Some of the most dramatic and vivid chapters were written during the war years -- from Gandalf’s fall into darkness in Moria, written in 1941, to the long, painful journey of Frodo and Sam into Moria, which occupied much of 1944.” A photograph of the garden of New Lodge, with runner beans in full flower, seems to echo Frodo’s view from Tom Bombadil’s house in The Lord of the Rings (Book 1, chapter 7): Frodo ran to the eastern window and found himself looking into a kitchen-garden grey with dew . . . his view was screened by a tall line of beans on poles; but above and far beyond the grey top of the hill loomed up against the sunrise. The sky spoke of rain to come; but the light was broadening quickly, and the red flowers on the beans began to glow against the wet green leaves. Mr Hewat, who now hopes to contact the trilogy’s producers about the Ribble Valley connection, said: “JRR Tolkien was renowned for his love of nature and wooded landscapes. The countryside around Stonyhurst College and St Mary’s Hall is richly beautiful and the area is dotted with names that are familiar from The Lord of the Rings -- Shire Lane in Hurst Green, for instance, or the River Shirebourn, perhaps named after the Shireburn family who had built Stonyhurst and owned the estate in the 16th and 17th centuries. “The green countryside is dominated by the dark shape of Pendle Hill, famous for its association with witches, sorcery and black magic in the 16th century -- surely inspiration for Middle Earth’s Misty Mountains or The Lonely Mountain?” He said Tolkien found time to write part of The Lord of the Rings in a classroom on the upper gallery at Stonyhurst College and would take walks with his son when not writing. “As a professor at Oxford, JRR Tolkien even taught a few lessons at Stonyhurst College during his stay,” Mr Hewat said. “He returned to Stonyhurst towards the end of his life to stay with his son in another house belonging to the college, a few hundred yards away from St Mary’s Hall, in Woodfields. His love of trees continued throughout his life and he persuaded Michael to plant a copse in the garden, evidence of which can still be seen today.”

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