Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien

Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien

1979

Rare Books

Houghton Mifflin

Indiana State University. Rare Books & Manuscripts

English

31. Taniquetil
This watercolour dates in all probability from the same period (1927-8) as the other Silmarillion paintings. It was published in The J. R. R. Tolkien Calendar 1974, and again in The Silmarillion Calendar 1978. Taniquetil, called also Oiolossë, Amon Uilos, and Mount Everwhite, was the highest of the mountains that guarded Valinor and the highest mountain of Arda, 'upon whose summit Manwë set his throne'. In the foreground is one of the white Swan-ships of the Telerin Elves who dwelt on the coast of Aman.