{"id":78138,"date":"2013-09-02T01:10:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T06:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=78138"},"modified":"2013-09-06T22:25:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T03:25:27","slug":"jemima-caitlin-on-illustrating-the-hobbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/09\/02\/78138-jemima-caitlin-on-illustrating-the-hobbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Jemima Catlin, the newest illustrator of The Hobbit"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an illustrated tale of the untried university graduate who brought new life to JRR Tolkien\u2019s previous creations. Here lies a tale about a young rookie who was plucked from the wilderness to deliver an almighty task despite lacking in heavyweight stature.<\/p>\n

Art student Jemima Catlin, an avid JRR Tolkien obsessive, was just 23 when her work fell into the lap of literary giants Harper Collins \u2013 and little did she know that she would go on to illustrate none other than her beloved epic, The Hobbit.<\/p>\n

Long after she first read Tolkien\u2019s classic novel, Jemima decided to illustrate one of the author\u2019s short stories, Roverandom [ed note: in the original article it’s misspelled as Rover Random<\/i>], as part of a university project.<\/p>\n

\u201cI only had three months to complete the university project, so I\u2019d decided to illustrate Rover Random, a short story Tolkien wrote about a little dog who became a toy dog,\u201d the 26-year-old told The Big Issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dog upsets a wizard and ends up going to lots of different places \u2013 like the moon and the sea. It’s a really interesting story.<\/p>\n

\u201cI decided I would bind it all together in a book with the illustrations between the text and that I would contact Harper Collins to send them a sample of the illustrations.<\/p>\n

\u201cDavid Brawn, their estate’s publisher, invited me up to see him. He really liked the work and sent it off to the Tolkien Estate.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, typical of a Tolkien tale, the journey wasn\u2019t a fairytale from start to finish. What happened next was disappointing \u2013 but it didn\u2019t knock the Dorchester-based student off her fiery journey.<\/p>\n

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