Interesting Links for 23-09-2017

[andrewducker]

'Freeways' Is a Mobile Game That Lets You Play Traffic Engineer

(tags: games traffic transport )

The Hobbit Was Almost Illustrated by Maurice Sendak (for its 30th anniversary)

(tags: TheHobbit Tolkien illustration )

Lightning storms triggered by exhaust from cargo ships

(tags: weather shipping lightning )

Brexit: What did we learn from Theresa May's Florence speech?

(tags: uk Europe )

Usher syndrome: Gene therapy restores hearing and balance (in mice)

(tags: hearing genetics )

New antibody attacks 99% of HIV strains

(tags: aids vaccination thefuture GoodNews )

How to Win a War on Drugs

(tags: drugs portugal viaFanf )

Laser Socks – a sweaty game pointing toward the future of computing

(tags: lasers games )

Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account stolen

(tags: security travel )

Macron: No moving forward on Brexit until divorce points cleared up

(tags: UK europe )

Uber London ban: The scandals that brought down the ride-hailing app

(tags: regulation taxi london uk )

Comments

[calimac]

Yes, it's a shame that Sendak didn't illustrate The Hobbit, despite a serious secondary-world consistency problem in the surviving illustration, which is the relative sizes of Bilbo and Gandalf. It's a charming piece nevertheless, and no Tolkien scholar I've discussed this with holds the size problem against the charm of the drawing.

The article doesn't seem to say that the bottom illustration is Tolkien's own, included I guess to compare Sendak's artistic skill with Tolkien's. Tolkien would hardly disagree with being called an inferior artist, though he might blister at the comparison being forced: he was actually a bit embarrassed at his publisher's desire to include his own illos when the book was first published; his comment was, "They seem to me to prove mostly that the author cannot draw."