On this page you can see some pictures of both text and used material from the Hobbit project. I used five plain handmade books, probably from India, using only about half of the fifth one.
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| 1. Five volumes |
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For the writing I made use of Papermate black ink ballpoint pens (medium); for the chapter titles I used a Parker red ink ballpoint pen (medium). I used maybe 20 Papermates, not for running out of ink but because after a while they all tended to start annoyingly smearing, probably due to some chemical (or organic) substance used in the production of the paper. Luckily the paper was transparent enough for a ruling sheet to be used.
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| 2. Ballpoint pens |
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Here are some random pages and details. As you can see I applied Roman page numbering, in order to add to the old age look I aimed at.
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| 3. Page III-xix |
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| 4. Beginning of chapter X (III-lxi) |
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| 5. Detail |
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| 6. Spread III-lxx/lxx |
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| 7. Detail III-xxv |
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| 8. Final page (V-xxxii) |
Some details of the books are still "under construction", like the title page and cover. As soon as they've been finished, I will post pictures on this page.
