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Description	Detail of the dust jacket of The Hobbit showing the frame story runic message attributing the work to Bilbo Baggins. The dust jacket was painted by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1937.
Author or copyright owner	J. R. R. Tolkien
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: The Hobbit Immediate source: https://bodleianshop.co.uk/products/hobbit-dust-jacket-a2-print
Date of publication	1937
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Tolkien's frame stories
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	Shows the frame story approach taken by Tolkien to present the book as written by its protagonist, Bilbo Baggins, concealed in plain sight by writing the inscription in a runic alphabet.
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	Tolkien's work remains in copyright, and since this exact work is discussed, nothing else will do.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	The image is at low resolution and is cropped from the original. It is used only in this article, and is the only example of Tolkien's artwork in the article.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	The book has already sold in excess of 100 million copies, and a small detail from its dust jacket, already published in many places on the Web, is not going to affect this or future sales in any material way.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Tolkien's frame stories//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Hobbit_Dust_Jacket_Runes_Detail.jpgtrue

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