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: Why The Lord of the Rings?
See http://mentalfloss.com/article/66764/time-queen-denmark-illustrated-lord-rings
"...one of Tolkien’s favorites was a Danish illustrator who went by the pseudonym Ingahild Grathmer.
Grathmer sent Tolkien her interpretations of scenes from The Lord of the Rings in the early ‘70s. The hard-to-impress author absolutely loved them, and was taken with how similar they were to his own sketches. Grathmer’s art ultimately appeared in a 1977 Danish edition of Lord of the Rings, but by this time, the illustrator was preoccupied with another job: being Queen of Denmark."
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