Joel Merrinerさんのイラストまとめ

A marker pen sketch for #TolkienTrewsday. No, it's not a festival, but it is Bombur, celebrating life with a pie 🥧

You can rely on a historical illustrator to bring imaginary artefacts alive visually, and when it comes to #Tolkien few can match the mighty Angus McBride. Take his Sea Lords of Gondor cover (1987) which features a super-cool Corsair captain wearing Tolkien's own Númenórean helm

In the world of #Tolkien illustration MERP stalwart Liz Danforth is perhaps best known for her black & white character studies, but she's not adverse to colour. Take this creeping, sniffing Nazgûl (1996) which subverts the clichéd faceless black hood with an eerie golden glow 💀

@folkhorrorforum Looks like a John Howe Barrow-wight😉

Tonight, it's the #Tolkien book that should have been..."Mountains of Arda" by Russian painter, archaeologist and esoteric traveller Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947). Blending arcane symbolism with a colour drenched palette, Roerich was born to paint Caradhras, Mt Doom or Taníquetil

Thank the fox it's 2023! Have a good one folks! 🦊

My 2023 @SignumU course '#Tolkien Illustrated: Picturing the Legendarium' will be exploring many themes and many, many images. Here's two of the latter, from the 1972 reissue of Bo Hansson's Sagan Om Ringen, it's Jane Furst's super-prog sleeve pics, complete with (intended?) Eye

@Mercuryreads Me too. This is one reason why I love pics of elves from artists outside of the Western visual "canon" (particularly Hobbit translations). They seem to get it. Laima Eglïte is one example. Her elves even have wings for God's sake, but if you suspend your disbelief for a moment😀

Like a jagged knife emerging from a stab wound, Roger Garland's 1982 image of Barad-dûr represents (imho) the definitive depiction of the Least-Homeliest House in Middle-earth. It's graced covers, calendars, inspired Soviet Bloc imitators, but it never, ever, gets old... #Tolkien

Another delve into the Mythlore art archives, this time from the 1992 Tolkien Centenary Issue, brings us Patrick Wynne's superb faux-medieval-with-a-comic-book-twist depiction of Ainur Head Boy Manwë. Ol' Blue Eyes appears rather miffed here as eagle and falcon watch on #Tolkien