Things I really like about living in Oxford #1

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On this year's World Book Day, the Bodleian Library exhibited some of J.R.R. Tolkien's original watercolours for The Hobbit. I had admittedly seen a couple of them reproduced before, but I figured if I didn't go there on my lunch today, I would seriously regret it. And I'm very glad I did: they were so crisp and bright! They had really lost some of the colour intensity when they had been reprinted. According to the local paper, over 1000 people came to view the illustrations.