The Glorund drawing and the Shores of Faery drawing are both printed in J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator, along with many other amazing pieces of artwork. The book is available for less than $30 from Amazon, and is well worth it. The Earendillinwe page looks awfully familiar too, but I’m not sure where or if I’ve seen it before.
When he was drafting new work “at speed”, his writing was what I would call entirely illegible. I’m amazed that his son was able to decipher as much as he did in the History of Middle-Earth. Here’s an example of some of his drafting. The difference between this and his more careful calligraphy is like night and day.
My copy shipped today.
My wife bought a copy for me, but she’s going to wrap it and put under the xmas tree. So it’ll be about 3 weeks before I open it.
Here’s a possibly interesting aside (but quite the coincidence).
Today we went to Mottisfont, a National Trust property, where there was an exhibition of original illustrations from CS Lewis’ Narnia books. They were created by Pauline Baynes who, it turns out, was a noted Tolkien illustrator.
During the Second World War she was recruited to work for the Royal Engineers Camouflage Department and later to prepare maps for military use. Her mapmaking skills were subsequently put to use on maps of Middle Earth.
I’m sure you guys know much more about her than I do. The exhibits were assembled from the US for this show, so I guess her works will be exhibited over there from time to time.
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A friend of mine and I have tickets to see the exhibit tomorrow afternoon, which turns out to be terrible timing, as that’s also when a winter storm will be hitting the area, with snow, 50mph winds, and whiteout conditions. Not an ideal day to be making a 100 mile trek up to Milwaukee. 
It’d be worse if you were trudging up Caradhras the cruel, right?
Good luck. We’ve got to get our oldest daughter to O’hare tomorrow morning for her 10 AM flight back to Vancouver. Plus I’ve got covid now. Ugh.
I hope you enjoy. I recommend staying at the Pfister Hotel if you’re stuck in MKE. My youngest’s mother in law is a part time concierge there. Fancy place!
Yes, it would be. 
On the other hand, I don’t have access to an Wizard, a Ranger, or an elf.
My friend and I had decided that the roads were going to be too lousy this afternoon, so we’d already decided to not go – and, then, this morning, I got an email from the museum, informing me that Marquette was closing the entire campus, including the museum, at noon today, due to the storm. They extended an invitation, for people who had tickets for today, to instead come see the exhibit on Monday, the 2nd; my friend and I are both able to go on that day, so that’s our plan (barring another snowstorm!)
…that you know of. /Strider
Yay!
We got my daughter to O’hare and she made it out, and we’ll be hot tubbing outside tonight in -2 degree temps overlooking t̶h̶e̶ s̶e̶a̶ o̶f̶ H̶e̶l̶c̶a̶r̶ Lake Michigan
Hooray and nice!
Beware any elves with murder in their eyes, traversing the icy waters.
At least he’s got Death’s granddaughter keeping an eye on him! 
This is at least moderately reassuring.
She has First Sight; the gift of seeing what’s actually there.
I did, indeed, get up to Milwaukee for the exhibit today, and had a great time seeing it. It was incredible to see some of Tolkien’s actual manuscripts, and how famous passages from the books evolved through drafts.
I got to talk with the staff a bit, and they said that, as the people who will dismantling the displays and shipping items back to their owners aren’t coming until tomorrow, they were able to offer this extra day today for people who weren’t able to attend on the 22nd. Also, as today is a day off for a lot of people, traffic was extremely light, which was a nice bonus.
I also participated in a project with a researcher who was there, asking visitors to share their personal experiences around Tolkien through recorded interviews (questions like “how were you first exposed to Tolkien’s works?” and “What does Tolkien and Middle-Earth mean to you?”).
Definitely worth the trip, so thank you for alerting us about it, @Qadgop_the_Mercotan!
Green. Envy. Angry thoughts re brief of law…
Right, I never made it to the exhibit, but a while ago I checked the Haggerty Museum and they still have some of the catalogues available. I ordered it and it arrived yesterday.
It’s beautiful!
Drawings, calligraphy, notes on possible additions to the corpus (including a calligraphy version of a page that introduces an evil version of Treebeard. He got better.)
Not the sort of thing to read cover to cover, but a “dip into it” book, to look at different illustrations from time to time.
wow he was a good artist and calligraphy like that is a lost art pretty cool
as a kid I liked the hobbit and as a mostly life long D&D fan always felt strange I couldn’t get into LOTR…
It’s a lovely thing to skim periodically.