By the way, with respect to the artwork commentary from Tolkien, Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull revealed [at another forum, I underline one section here]:
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We did, in fact, make extensive use of this manuscript in The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion (2005), on pp. 3-4, 107, 229, 244-5, 265, 272, 447, and 493. Christopher Tolkien had earlier published part of it in Unfinished Tales (1980), pp. 286-7. We refer to it variously as a manuscript written c. 1969, a late manuscript, a late unpublished note, etc., with the source given only as the Tolkien Papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford. When we wrote the Reader's Companion, the Bodleian Tolkien papers were in process of being reorganized and renumbered; therefore by agreement with the Library and the Tolkien Estate, with whom we worked closely, we gave only a generic citation for Bodleian materials.
We also promised the Estate to follow Christopher's lead in Unfinished Tales, where he quoted from the manuscript in question without explaining the larger context of its criticism of Pauline Baynes's map -- that we would quote only elements of fact concerning The Lord of the Rings, its characters and world. Pauline was then still alive (until August last year), and neither we nor the Estate wished to cause her any distress when she saw our book. Tolkien himself had not sent his criticism to her, and never would have done so. Anyway, identifying the manuscript in broader terms while quoting the portions we did would have been extraneous. When describing the map itself (pp. lxiv-lxvi), we were concerned only with the place-names added by Tolkien, avoiding the issue of the art altogether.
It may be, nonetheless, that Pauline knew of Tolkien's dislike of the top and bottom of her poster-map from other sources, for in her lifetime special copies turned up with strips cut off, and this was described in catalogues once or twice. No doubt we'll mention it in the bibliography of Pauline's work that we're in process of writing.
Wayne & Christina
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In a note to The Bladorthin Typescript (ii Bladorthin, note 14, Mr. Baggins), John Rateliff describes an essay written circa 1970 and now in the Bodleian Library (Tolkien Papers A61 a, fol. 1-31).
Mr. Rateliff quotes a description of Gandalf from this essay (which includes 'Which should make him a short man even in modern England, especially with the reduction of a bent back' incidentally), noting also that it was written in response to Pauline Baynes' art for the poster-map of Middle-earth -- which included the Fellowship and Bill, and certain evil types too.