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1. During our Storytime Program Elrod has created what is likely the largest-contemporary collection of hand drawn illustrations of Middle Earth.

From the Fellowship of the Ring
Here Bilbo prepares to depart Bag End, Hobbiton, and the Shire.

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2. Gandalf examines the One Ring.

From the Fellowship of the Ring

3 Frodo Prepare to leave the Shire.
From the Fellowship of the Ring

4. Into the Old Forest - Frodo, Samwise, Merry, and Pippin

"‘There!’ said Merry. ‘You have left the Shire, and are now outside, and on the edge of the Old Forest.’"

5. The Hobbits meet "Old Man Willow"

6. In the house of Tom Bombadil

7. Fog on the Barrow Downs

7. Strider at the Prancing Pony

8. The heir of Isildur and the sword that was broken

9. The Nazghul at Weather Top

10. Some wounds will never heal.
Frodo and Samwise Gamgee

11. Glorfindel - the flight to Rivendell.

"To Frodo it appeared that a white light was shining through the form and raiment of the rider, as if through a thin veil"

The Fellowship of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

12. Frodo safe in the Last Homely House.

13. Elrond half-elven the Master of Imladris

14. Bilbo asks about the Ring.

"To his distress and amazement he found that he was no longer looking at Bilbo; a shadow seemed to have fallen between them, and through it he found himself eyeing a little wrinkled creature with a hungry face and bony groping hands."

15. Sauraman's betrayal.

16. Gandalf at Orthanc, a prisoner of Isengard.

17. A black rider, Nazghul - ring wraith with colors by Amy Lester.

18. "He ceased, but at once Boromir stood up, tall and proud, before them. ‘Give me leave, Master Elrond,’ said he, ‘first to say more of Gondor, for verily from the land of Gondor I am come."

Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Lord of the Rings

19." So it was that Frodo saw her whom few mortals had yet seen; Arwen, daughter of Elrond, in whom it was said that the likeness of Lúthien had come on earth again; and she was called Undómiel, for she was the Evenstar of her people."

Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Lord of the Rings

20. Gandalf the Grey

21.
‘That cannot be helped now,’ said Gandalf. ‘Whether they are good or evil, or have nothing to do with us at all, we must go down at once. Not even on the knees of Caradhras will we wait for another night-fall!’

Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Lord of the Rings

Colors Amy Lester

22.
"At that moment Gandalf lifted his staff, and crying aloud he smote the bridge before him. The staff broke asunder and fell from his hand. A blinding sheet of white flame sprang up. The bridge cracked."

Tolkien, J.R.R.. The Lord of the Rings