Ted Nasmith

Shelob

Shelob

Media: Goache on illustration board

First appeared in the 1987 Tolkien Calendar, published by Unwin Paperbacks. (It was the painting for November.)

J.R.R. Tolkien Gallery
Boromir's Last Stand At The Falls The Riders of Rohan Fangorn Forest The Stranger in the Forest The Tree Shepherds The Wrath of the Ents Apparitions At the Cross-roads First Sight of Ithilien The Terrace at Henneth Annūn The Tower of the Moon Shelob's Retreat Treebeard and the Entmoot Through the Marshes The Mūmak of Harad The Last Words of Boromir No Way Down Gollum's Debate Pursuit in Rohan Wellinghall Sam Enters Mordor Alone Shelob Shelob Sketches and Studies  

More Tolkien illustrations:

The Silmarillion

The Hobbit

The Fellowship of the Ring

The Return of the King
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