Joel Merrinerさんのイラストまとめ

This image has a special place in my heart - Michael Hague's Riddles in the Dark, from the 1986 #Tolkien Calendar. As a fledgling teenage fantasy artist this inspired my very first Tolkien oil painting - Bilbo with Sting, same red waistcoat, same green cloak, just not as good...

As an illustrator and (ex) gamer, it was inevitable that one day I would be asked to paint a Space Marine. Actually, I ended up painting several, from different Chapters. Working from miniatures was a pain, however. Pic 2 has been cropped, it's far too gruesome for a Sunday :)

It's Angus McBride hour again - this time we're showcasing his beautifully composed cover illustration for the (wildly uncanonical) 1987 MERP module Woses of the Black Wood. Observe the scene as two elegantly attired mounted dandies fall foul of the Woses' blowpipes #Tolkien #art

Denis Gordeev produced 30 full colour fairy tale-like images for the 2005 Russian translation of the #Hobbit. Here's three particularly fine ones - the Eagles' rescue, Bard & Thranduil address the King under the Mountain and Bilbo, Gandalf and Balin shoot the breeze #Tolkien #art

Time for our weekly fix of Angus McBride, old school illustrator who does what it says on the tin. First up a beautifully lit depiction of Treebeard sharing a draught with Merry and Pippin (c.1990). Second, a trademark McBride rumble from Treason at Helm's Deep (1988) #Tolkien

The potential evolution of a visual motif in a Tolkienian context Part 5 - Paragraph ornament by Edward Johnston in Writing & Illuminating & Lettering (1908). Decorative frieze featured in the illustration Glorund sets forth to seek Túrin (1927) by #Tolkien
#Tolkienart #motif

Tonight - from the 2005 edition of Yakhnin's Russian #Hobbit translation we have one of the most exquisite depictions of Barrels out of Bond you're ever likely to see. Olga Ionajtis is the artist, Bilbo is the subject, spot him if you can #Tolkien
"Heave ho! Splash plump!"

In a pivotal scene from #LordoftheRings, Michael Kaluta (1993) and Angus McBride (1990) depict Éowyn, Théoden and the Witch-King together on the battlefield. Roger Garland (1983) depicts only the latter. Why? Read my blog post for one possibility https://t.co/pwZD2t4H73
#Tolkien

That feeling when an indecipherable piece of your #Tolkien visual research suddenly clicks. My brain earlier today :)
#phdlife #illustration

And today - the potential evolution of a visual motif within a Tolkienian context Part 1. Eärendil's device by #Tolkien (c. 1960), Pennsylvania Dutch Hex sign common to Berks County (re-painted c.1970s), compass rose by Karen Wynn Fonstad (1981) from The Atlas of Middle-earth