Mr. Bliss

[The Lady of Ithilien]

(Er, I hope this is the right forum for a discussion of JRRT's Mr. Bliss. It doesn't seem to fit into any of the other forums, and there is a drawing of Ham Gamgee in it as well as a young Sam (though his last name in this book is Dobbins) and the pictures of the forest on pages 27 and 28 remind of me of what Lothlorien at night must have looked like to Boromir, though he didn't wish out loud for "lots and lots of policemen," as he was grown up Please move, if not appropriate.)

Anyway, has anybody else read this? I bought it in the early 1980s when it came out, but was so intoxicated by The Lord of the Rings, I really couldn't appreciate it then. I rediscovered it a few months ago and just love it -- the combination of calligraphy and watercolors, as well as the story...not to mention the Girabbit.