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.

The Incoming Sea at the Rainbow Cleft

Media: Gouache on illustration board (This is a scene from Tolkien’sUnfinished Tales.) First appeared in the 2000 Tolkien Calendar, published by HarperCollins. (It was the painting for October.)

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Fingon and Gothmog

Media: Gouache on illustration board First appeared in the 2000 Tolkien Calendar, published by HarperCollins. (It was the painting for June.)

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Tuor, Gelmir, and Arminas

Media: Gouache on illustration board (This is a scene from Tolkien’sUnfinished Tales.) First appeared in the 2000 Tolkien Calendar, published by HarperCollins. (It was the painting for March.)

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Beleg is Slain

Media: Gouache on illustration board First appeared in the 2000 Tolkien Calendar, published by HarperCollins. (It was the painting for January.)

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Túrin Bears Gwindor to Safety

Media: Gouache on illustration board First appeared in the new illustrated edition of The Silmarillion, published by HarperCollins in 2004.

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Tuor and Voronwë See Túrin at the Pool of Ivrin

Media: Gouache on illustration board First appeared in the new illustrated edition of The Silmarillion, published by HarperCollins in 2004.

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Flight of the Doomed

Media: Gouache on illustration board First appeared in the new illustrated edition of The Silmarillion, published by HarperCollins in 2004.

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Saeros’ Fatal Leap

Media: Gouache on illustration board First appeared in the new illustrated edition of The Silmarillion, published by HarperCollins in 2004

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Tuor is Led by the Swans to Vinyamar

Media: Gouache on illustration board First appeared in the new illustrated edition of The Silmarillion, published by HarperCollins in 2004.

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Túrin Reaches the Abandoned Homestead

Media: Gouache on illustration board First appeared in the new illustrated edition of The Silmarillion, published by HarperCollins in 2004.

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