The J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar 1979 was the final calendar in the series to include new, previously unpublished images made by Tolkien himself. It included four further illustrations that Tolkien originally made for The Hobbit, but it also ventured beyond the Middle-earth legendarium and included examples of emblematic dragons, trees, and flowers.
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The Silmarillion Calendar features images from The Silmarillion, a collection of myths and stories in the wider Middle-earth setting that covers the history of Tolkien’s fantasy world up to the Third Age.
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.R.R. Tolkien made several drawings for The Lord of the Rings, almost all in coloured pencil, using a muted palette, but it seems very likely that none of these were ever intended to be published.
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The Hobbit Calendar 1976 focuses, as its name suggests, on illustrations made to accompany The Hobbit. The five watercolour paintings that Tolkien created for the book were once again reproduced in this calendar, but, for the remaining seven months, H.E. Riddett was invited to colour Tolkien’s original black-and-white pen and ink illustrations.
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The J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar 1974 only includes a few new illustrations, but one of them, ‘Fangorn Forest’, is particularly interesting. This image, in one form or another, has been used to illustrate all three of Tolkien’s major works.
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The J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar 1973 contained five watercolour paintings that Tolkien produced for The Hobbit, along with some hitherto unpublished pictures that he made while writing The Lord of the Rings.
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