Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them. Lemony Snicket (via doeribs) Oct 3rd / Tagged: lemony snicket lit prose quotes books / 15 notes †

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. Oscar Wilde (via jorrty) Oct 1st / Tagged: lit quote prose / 205 notes †

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

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. (Source)

Sep 21st / Tagged: J. R. R. Tolkien art book art book arts coloring detailed drawing illustration tolkien ink lit literature / 7,561 notes †