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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Gouache, 17″ x 11.75″ I was excited to do this piece, based on a thumbnail taken from old concept ideas for Unfinished Tales. It offers a rare glimpse of the Elf queen and her mate Celeborn outside Lothlórien, during their long wanderings across the breadth of Middle-earth.
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Gouache, 16″ x 11″ I was very glad to do this piece, which takes us up close to the mountain, and epitomizes the Northern landscape themes and settings of First Age tales, in particular. Mim and Turin can be seen standing under an overhang above the others. But the main interest for me was the …
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Gouache, 19.75″ x 12″ Long a favourite tale from the book, it meant a lot to be able to include this scene in my submissions for Unfinished Tales. My thumbnail was quite basic for this scene, and I fleshed it out by deciding we should see something of the land across the sound/firth, and the …
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Gouache, 15.5″ x 10.5″ This 2020 version improves greatly on my early 1990s version, swinging the view toward the westering sun, and taking advantage of the rich colours implied. It also carefully renders the figures said to be present, and some indications of squires. Snow upon the White Mountains reduced because the scene occurs in …
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Media: Gouache on illustration board (This is a scene from Tolkien’s Unfinished Tales.) First appeared in the 1990 Tolkien Calendar, published by HarperCollins. (It was the painting for September.)
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The Blue Wizards Journeying East Media: Gouache on illustration board
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