![]() ![]() Here, he’s trying a gentler, rounded, tiered version of the tower, which matched an early draft of The Two Towers. In the three-part sketch of Saruman’s tower, "Orthanc (2), 3, (4)," we see Tolkien testing ideas. No wonder 17 years passed between the publication of The Hobbit and Rings. Lothlórien and Gondor! Mount Doom and Edoras! Uruk-hai and Nazgul! So many homelands, races, and cultures to flesh out buildings and environments to build natural and man-made (and dwarf-, elf-, and hobbit-made) features to be pictured in his mind, carefully placed on the map, and turned into words. ![]() The width and breadth of it probably felt overwhelming. To be sure, Tolkien had to grapple with the fact the Middle-earth of Lord of the Rings was far more complicated, and expansive, than the Bilbo-sized realm of The Hobbit. To be sure, Tolkien had to grapple with the fact that the Middle-earth of Lord of the Rings was a lot more complicated, and vaster, than the Bilbo-sized version in The Hobbit. ![]()
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