A vignette in pencil and white highlights for the 2021 edition of the illustrated Silmarillion. (3″ x 2.5″)
Category: J. R. R. Tolkien
This section contains the largest collection of images: examples of my work from the 1970’s to the present inspired chiefly by J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, but also The Hobbit and The Silmarillion.
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Barad-dûr (vignette)
A vignette in pencil and white highlights for the 2021 edition of the illustrated Silmarillion. (3″ x 2.5″)
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Arda’s Creation (vignette)
A vignette in pencil and white highlights for the 2021 edition of the illustrated Silmarillion. (3″ x 2.5″)
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Varda Creating Stars
Part of a tattoo design with the theme, “Light of Arda.”
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Glorfindel’s Bane
Private commission. Gouache on board. (29″ x 21″)
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Gandalf and the Witch King
Private commission. Gouache, 24″ x 18.75″ The challenge was to create images of the protagonists which carry the essence of the descriptions Tolkien gives us. It needed the two opponents to seem dynamic and energized. This was easy enough with the Witch King’s dramatic entrance, whereas Gandalf is described as statue like, a sentinel …
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“He Beheld a Vision of Gondolin Amid the Snow”
Gouache, 17″ x 12″ Among the illustrations submitted for this new edition, this one in particular was key. It astonished me that up to then I had not carefully read the Unfinished Tales account and picked up on this detail. In The Silmarillion, despite that Tuor and Voronwe had come to Gondolin through a winter …
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