NEW YORK (AP) — An upcoming edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy will
include paintings, drawings and other illustrations by the British author for the first time since it
was published in the mid-1950s.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media announced Thursday that the new version will come out
Oct. 19. Deb Brody, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s vice president and publisher, noted that Tolkien was
already known for his illustrations which appeared in "The Hobbit" and that his artwork for
"The Lord of the Rings" had been exhibited in 2018 in New York, Paris and in Oxford, England.

‘Yet the author himself was characteristically modest, dismissive of the obvious and rare artistic talent
he possessed despite having had no formal training," Brody said in a statement. "This modesty
meant that relatively little else of his artwork was known of or seen during his lifetime, and generally
only in scholarly books afterwards."
"The Lord of the Rings" books, which include "The Fellowship of the Ring," "The
Two Towers" and "The Return of the King," are among the best-selling fantasy novels in
history. They were adapted into a blockbuster trilogy of films by director Peter Jackson.