A review by epaulettes
Tolkien Treasures by Catherine McIlwaine

3.0

Very nice, concise coffee table book showing off Tolkien's body of artistic work (doodles, watercolors, & illustrations for his life and legendarium). The biographical elements were really disappointing, just bare bones information to break each section into different eras of his life and works, but that's what I get for buying the shorter (read: cheaper and less heavy to carry out of the bookstore) version of a different book. The thing that bothered me the most was that the book just trails off at the end with a bunch of the final LotR maps. The best parts were the full page illustrations and explanations of details that I would have missed without McIlwaine's notes.