The Silmarillion

From artist Benjamin Harff comes this stunning recreation of the "real" Silmarillion. In Tolkien's canon the book is a collection of Elvish stories collected and subsequently published by one Bilbo Baggins. This is a copy of that book, the one you would find sitting on the shelf at Bag End.

Producing the book was a year long labor of love that involved meticulously hand drawing the initials and illuminated pages. They were then scanned into a computer and used to highlight text laid out using a conventional word processor. The text block was then hand-bound with a goatskin cover. You can read more about the creation process in this interview with the artist.