Title: Owlamoo
Artist: J.R.R. Tolkien

1928

Tolkien's second son, Michael, told his father about 'a large sinister owl-like figure that perched

on high furniture or pictures and glared at you.' Tolkien drew this mesmerising owl in coloured inks,

in order to dispel Michael's night-time fears. MS. Tolkien Drawings 88, fol. 32r

Reproduced with kind permission of The Tolkien Estate Limited for the Bodleian Libraries exhibition Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth.

© The Tolkien Trust 1992