Your favourite Tolkien artistes
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(I think you should have kept schtum a bit longer! )
(I think you should have kept schtum a bit longer! )
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I just discovered the works of Justin Gerard via reddit; he has a few Tolkien-related pieces on his website: Glorfindel and the Balrog, the Fall of Glorfindel, Smaug, and Glaurung and the Dwarf King. I particularly like the latter two (his rendition of dragons!), as the curved swords and Balrog models strike me as too obviously Jacksonian.
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Latest from Kimberly80...The Witch King and Éowyn:
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That's .... different.
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
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Yeah...I like the icy shield maiden, but I'm not sure what to make of the WiKi - he's certainly creepy!
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He looks too Elven to be a Man.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Not the mention the fact that he should be completely formless and invisible to mortal eyes beneath his cloak, not some kind of creepy, disintegrating zombie-elf.
I do quite like Éowyn, however.
I do quite like Éowyn, however.
"Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the seas, and pierce the hidden caverns beneath the world."
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It's a typical example of how hit and miss this artist can be...when she "gets it right" her work is stunning, but other times....
Even allowing for artistic licence, I still think there's no excuse for not using the author's description as the starting point, at least. Certainly for things like hair colour - the number of blond Fingolfins on the 'net is surprising, for example.
Even allowing for artistic licence, I still think there's no excuse for not using the author's description as the starting point, at least. Certainly for things like hair colour - the number of blond Fingolfins on the 'net is surprising, for example.
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Yes—the cloaks concealing nothingness are far more frightening than any zombie manifestation.
Éowyn is nice, but rather conventional.
(We should put in autocorrections for some of the tough, diacritic-heavy Tolkien names. It could be an advertising point. "Try your next heavy discussion of the Silmarillion with HoF E-Z-Type[TM] brand Tolkien autocorrection! You won't forget your point while trying to remember the keyboard shortcut for circumflex!")
Éowyn is nice, but rather conventional.
(We should put in autocorrections for some of the tough, diacritic-heavy Tolkien names. It could be an advertising point. "Try your next heavy discussion of the Silmarillion with HoF E-Z-Type[TM] brand Tolkien autocorrection! You won't forget your point while trying to remember the keyboard shortcut for circumflex!")
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King