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Pauline Baines passing

PostPosted: August 2nd, 2008, 11:17 pm
by Adam Linton
I don't have details, but I just heard that Pauline Baines, illustrator for both Lewis and Tolkien, passed away a few days ago. I beleive that she was 89.

PostPosted: August 3rd, 2008, 12:14 am
by john
Pauline Baynes is 86...I just did a search, and haven't found any mention of her death. Are you sure about this, Adam?

PostPosted: August 3rd, 2008, 11:11 am
by Sven
Neither the BBC Online, the (London) Times, or her hometown newspaper (the Surrey Comet) mentions her passing. The only thing I could find is a posting in a Tolkien forum that said "so-and-so emailed so-and-so saying...".

PostPosted: August 3rd, 2008, 5:43 pm
by galion
The first "somebody" is Wayne Hammond, who, in partnership with his wife Christina Scull, is a major Tolkien scholar. They have known Pauline Baynes for many years.

And no, so far no obits.

PostPosted: August 3rd, 2008, 10:46 pm
by matdonna
I was just passing this on and googling for the possibility of more detail, when I discovered Alexander Solzhenitzyn has just died as well.

Not meaning to hijack the thread. Sad to hear of both these passings.

PostPosted: August 3rd, 2008, 10:51 pm
by galion
Indeed. Вечная память ему.

PostPosted: August 4th, 2008, 10:56 pm
by matdonna
Brian Sibley has a post about Pauline Baynes with lots of great illos:


PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 4:45 am
by rusmeister

PostPosted: August 5th, 2008, 8:51 am
by galion

PostPosted: October 8th, 2008, 2:49 pm
by Wixenstyx