Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo.Seeds of Knowledge: Early Modern Illustrated Herbals.Nora Thompson Dean: Lenape Teacher and Herbalist.Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality.Into the Woods: French Drawings and Photographs from the Karen B.In and around Piranesi's Rome: Eighteenth-Century Views of Italy.

Uncommon Denominator: Nina Katchadourian at the Morgan.Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason.Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi.Drawn from the collections of the Tolkien Archive at the Bodleian Library (Oxford), Marquette University Libraries (Milwaukee), the Morgan, and private lenders, the exhibition will include family photographs and memorabilia, Tolkien’s original illustrations, maps, draft manuscripts, and designs related to T he Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. The exhibition will be the most extensive public display of original Tolkien material for several generations. Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth celebrates the man and his creation. Going beyond literature, Tolkien’s Middle-earth is a world complete with its own languages and histories.

From the children’s classic The Hobbit to the epic The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien’s adventurous tales of hobbits and elves, dwarves and wizards have introduced millions to the rich history of Middle-earth. Tolkien ignited a fervid spark in generations of readers. “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” With these words the Oxford professor J.R.R.

ჰობიტი by J.R.R. Tolkien