Joel Merrinerさんのイラストまとめ

Tonight - for #Inktober have a Little Owl on me.
If you like, it can be in the Shire, near Woody End
#wildlife #Tolkien

In 1977, fantasy and comic artist Charles Vess produced a series of illustrations for a US edition of The #Hobbit. The book featured Rankin and Bass art plus new images in the same style by various hands. Here's one by Vess featuring Gandalf and Bilbo encountering Beorn #Tolkien

#Tolkien books that should have been Pt 10
Biographies of the Loyal and Righteous Noldor by ukiyo-e woodblock master Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798 - 1861). Deadly raven-haired warriors roaming the landscape seething with anger and thirsting for revenge. No one does it better #Japanart

Ok, so it's time for another sojourn into Ol'gi Ionajtis' bright and beautiful imagery for the 2005 Russian #Hobbit published by Astrel'. Here we have a dapper little scamp of a Bilbo chilling on the doorstep with his pipe and his spade. See those colours fizz #Tolkien

Like Cecil B. Demille let loose in the #Tolkien legendarium, Justin Gerard's magnificently dramatic Morgoth and the Silmarils 2018 brings us a dismayed Beren overwhelmed by the fiery ruins of Doriath. Plus, there's a skull in the flames for those who look for such things...

Tonight - like characters from an Expressionist sci-fi movie or a Ray Harryhausen stop-frame flick we have Andrew Mockett's colourful c.1992 interpretations of #Tolkien bad guys Morgoth and Gothmog. Yes, the former may be a little Martian but, hey, that balrog is just so cool :)

One of the most visually pleasing modern Russian #Hobbit translations is the 2004 edition illustrated by Ol'gi Ionajtis. The book is adorned with floral initials, chapter headers and 75 stunning full colour images of Bilbo and the gang. Here's four to savour #Tolkien #Russia

As a 1980's teenage fantasy and sci fi art freak, when I craved something weird, creepy but also beautiful I invariably turned to the work of Patrick Woodroffe (1940-2014). Hugely talented, but humble enough to give away his arcane secrets in books, I greatly miss him #fantasy

Well, obviously, dinosaurs are cool. When I'm not examining obscure #Tolkien illustrations I love a good piece of paleoart. Imho the late, great Zdeněk Burian is master of the genre, however one of the finest modern exponents of the art is Douglas Henderson. Here's four...enjoy

Tonight - beneath a sky like a vicious wound, Roger Garland's masterful 1982 rendering of the least homeliest house in Middle-earth, Barad-dûr. It's graced covers, calendars, inspired imitators (watch this space), but never, ever gets old...
#Tolkien #LordoftheRings