The Road Back Home

This is the second in a series of three drawings depicting various versions of Tolkien's "Roads go ever on and on" poem/walking song. Part One: [link] Part Three: [link]

This is probably my favorite version of this hobbit song. It's the second verse in the poem as related in "The Hobbit." Like Biblo, I appreciate adventure-- if for nothing else than it makes you appreciate your own mundane and altogether lovely life.

I drew Bilbo coming home to the Shire from his adventures in the East. Tolkien painting some awesome paintings for "The Hobbit" and I tried to kinda-sorta copy his version of Hobbiton and the Bag End hill.

And yes, I know he oughtn't be wearing a red shirt and that he should have his travel cloak and whatnot. Just taking artistic liscense.

And the scans shows the buckled paper only too clearly.