Art Student Hand-Illuminates, Binds a Copy of Tolkien’s Silmarillion

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Saw this as an update on Facebook from Steve Long (guy who wrote The Lord of the Rings RPG for Decipher). This is true fan dedication, plain and simple.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/08/art-student-hand-illuminates-binds-a-copy-of-tolkiens-silmarillion.html

This German art student, Benjamin Harff, decided, for his exam at the Academy of Arts, to do something only slightly ambitious — to hand-illuminate and bind a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion. It took him six months of work. In very 21st century elvish-monk style, he hand-illuminated the text which had been printed on his home Canon inkjet printer. He worked with a binder to assemble the resulting book.

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Holy cow, I'd love to have something like this (or the talent to do it myself).