Joel Merrinerさんのイラストまとめ

Ok, so I'm a big fan of illustrator Angus McBride. Back in 1966, way before his #Tolkien days he painted the Legendary Beasts series for Finding Out magazine. Here's four fine examples - a classic Dragon, the Wild Hunt, a creeping Werewolf and a sinister, louche Minotaur #legend

Fantasy artist and prog rock album cover supremo Rodney Matthews has often dabbled in the field of #Tolkien illustration. Here's Gollum in the Dead Marshes visualised as both a 1973 test piece and later more polished reworking. For me, the test wins out, bearded hobbits and all

'You should not look in when the candles are lit.'
Gollum warns Frodo and Sam of the perils of the Dead Marshes in Inger Edelfeldt's eerily luminous 1982 illustration. Featured in the classic 1985 #Tolkien calendar, earn an extra point if you can spot Lon Chaney's 1925 Phantom...

When you tire of Jackson's Orcs and need a change you can always look East. Take this fellow for instance, a Warg-rider from the 1987 Moldovan #Hobbit illustrated by Igor Khmelnitsky. Yes, he's got a Yosemite Sam beard and a coyote but its all about the colour and style #Tolkien

@Trotter_Tolkien @prancingponypod It's a classic book from the early days of the genre for sure! I've always felt her Balrog was inspired by the eponymous creature from Jacques Tourneur's 1957 Night of the Demon...

It's #Tolkien mayhem time Angus McBride style!
From Characters of Middle-earth (1990) we have Caerlinc the Dúnadan vs Udûn Orcs -1950s screen siren Lothuial of Dol Amroth - Bloody Skulls out of Mirkwood and bare-thighed King Ostoher about to be crushed by RogRog the Uruk!

Joan Wyatt's A Middle-earth Album (1979) offers up another of its strangely compelling images tonight - The Forbidden Pool. The topography of the landscape is odd here, but I still love the tiny hunched shape of Gollum perched on his rock.
Jackson's Faramir anybody? #Tolkien

I've been revisiting Michael Kilgarriff's 1968 BBC radio #Hobbit adaptation recently and despite it's faults I still love it. Visually, I'm also finding Mikhail Belomlinsky's jagged monochrome illustrations (1976) a perfect compliment to the spikey, theatrical sounds #Tolkien

I absolutely love Latvian #Hobbit illustrator Laima Eglïte's Bilbo Baggins. He literally sparkles with life and has a Tookish spirit that leaps off of the page at you. Plus, he has John Lydon's hair. Here's four monochrome classics, circa 1991. Enjoy #Tolkien

Ok, hold on to your hats it's #AngusMcBride doing what he does best: warriors and warlords! Roll call as follows - Gauls attack Romans, Irish Gaels attack Viking raiders, King Theodoric the Visigoth dies at Chalons, wild and crazy Landsknechts glory in the Sack of Rome! McBride!