A downloadable Zine

About

This is one of my first attempts at publishing a Zine. As a topic, I decided to write about two of my all-time-favourite fantasy authors, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, most notably famous for creating the imaginary worlds of Middle-Earth and Narnia. Their biographies and books share similarities, and the two were like-minded authors who also happened to be good friends in real life. It is the story of that friendship that I want to tell in my Zine, illustrated with graphics of my own design. There are two versions available for download, one of them including printing marks.

Credits

This project was created as part of my "Visualization and Interaction in Digital Media" study program at HS Ansbach,

Supervisor: Prof. Sebastian Stamm

For research on the topic, I used the following sources:

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a41019697/jrr-tolkien-c-s-lewis-friendship-lord-of-the-rings/

http://www.narnialand.de/Tolkien_und_C_S__Lewis/tolkien_und_c_s__lewis.html

https://www.grunge.com/596312/the-c-s-lewis-and-j-r-r-tolkien-relationship-explained/

https://lithub.com/j-r-r-tolkien-loved-to-pull-pranks-on-his-students/

https://interestingliterature.com/2014/11/five-fascinating-facts-about-c-s-lewis/

https://interestingliterature.com/2014/01/five-fascinating-facts-about-j-r-r-tolkien/

https://www.jacksonholeclassicalacademy.org/news-detail?pk=1054326

Also, I built some drawings upon photographic material from these sources:

https://de.catholicnewsagency.com/article/2249/125-geburtstag-wie-cs-lewis-den-w...

https://www.britannica.com/biography/J-R-R-Tolkien

https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/inklings/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:JRR_Tolkien_signature_-_from_Commons.svg

https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2018/11/13/a-miraculous-find/

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Opel_Simon_Zine_Tolkien_and_Lewis_no_print_marks.pdf 12 MB
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Opel_Simon_Zine_Tolkien_and_Lewis_with_print_marks.pdf 12 MB

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