 Daughter of Nienna Hithlum  Apr 25 2007, 7:47am Views: 5054 |
Most of these images are published images for calendars and various Middle-earth related books. I posted larger images of the more polished ones. Most of teh thumbnails are also puablished images...only 2 or 3 in this presentation are cards or game images.  Black Riders in the Shire 79.0 x 59.0 cm. — 1999 The 200l Tolkien Calendar Harper Collins Publishers More New Zealand landscape - minus the hobbit dwellings in this case.  Black Riders, 2001 Lord of the Rings Boardgame, The Sauron Expansion, Sophisticated Games Dimensions: 90.5 x 60.5 cm Naturally, the box is square, but cooping up all the momentum in a square seemed impossible. I end up more and more often treating illustrations in the format they deserve, irregardless of the printed format. A little calculation makes sure that the illustrations do indeed fit what they were designed for, and I'm convinced the extra bits that never get printed add a lot to the rest, even when cropped. And yes, I did make sure the requisite number of equine legs are there!  Horseman in the Night 2001 Tolkien Calendar HarperCollinsPublishers — 2000 When the editor mentioned that he intended to include the illustration I had done ages ago for a card for Iron Crown Enterprises in the 2001 calendar, I immediately proposed to do a new version. Same bridge, same horseman on the right...  The Lieutenant of the Black Gate — 1980 Originally done as a school project, I actually cut the figure out and glued it onto the background. I find it hard to believe that the whole thing is still intact. It is actually my first piece of Tolkien-related work to be published, appearing in the 1987 Tolkien Calendar with a somewhat startling green background and on the video game from those crooks at Melbourne House, where my weird two-headed crucified crow (what kind of creepy student was I? Small wonder I spent the third year in the stairwell...) was rendered in a rather smarter fashion.  The Dark Tower 47.3 x 47.3 cm, 1990 The 1991 Tolkien Calendar (page has links to all the various forms of publication…click image) Originally done for the calendar, this painting was reprinted on The Two Towers (September 1991), both hard and paperback. The calendars in the early '90's were quite a big format, spiral-bound, and more or less square. A frame with two facing vignettes of Sauron's army filled in the edges to accomodate the dates along the bottom. I can't honestly remember the starting point, but I had (and still do) a collection of photos of the skulls of small animals - mice, rats, small birds - that an art school classmate and I had piled up and photographed. (Don't ask me to justify piling up and taking pictures of skulls, it's one of those things thats comes naturally to art students.) From these snapshots, I had done a painting of the Nameless Isle, from the Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, by H. P. Lovecraft. (Don't ask me why I did that either...) Like many things, some paintings are a dry run, and I knew I had the foundations of Sauron's tower Barad-dur. Naturally, it was much easier to draw the bottom of the tower and leave the top to the imagination, and in truth it took Peter Jackson to finally push me to consider the summit. As for the Ringwraith and his fell steed, they came more or less with the landscape.  Médiaitions sur la Terre du Milieu Editions Bragelonne — 2003  Witch-King December 2003, Work-in-progress  In Mordor 1989 The 1991 Tolkien Calendar Approximately 45.0 x 64.0 cm I've always found the hobbits' gruelling odyssey in Mordor to be a distressing and powerful episode. The whip, the dust stirred up by orcish feet, even the harsh mountains in the background are all intended to emphasize the hobbits' plight.  Servants of Sauron Vignette for The Map of Tolkien's Middle-Earth, Brian SIBLEY HarperCollinsPublishers – Sept. 1994  The Uruk-hai — 1985 Painting done for the 1987 Tolkien Calendar, this is one of the three pictures that was stolen and never recovered in France back in 1997.  Ugluk Meditations on Middle-Earth, edited by Karen Haber Saint Martin's Press, New York November 2001  Gollum Flees the Elves of Mirkwood The 2001 Tolkien Calendar This is another New Zealand landscape, a direct product of the stay own under. Initially, I thought this will be great, a landscape, not too many characters (well, one, basically), it'll be easy to do. A walk in the park, so to speak. Boy was I wrong. After the umpteenth wee rock with reflections and you name it, I thought I'd never see the end of it. Perhaps that's why the border is so... unfocused.  Gollum Meditations on Middle-Earth, edited by Karen Haber Saint Martin's Press, New York November 2001  Gollum Card illustration for the War of the Ring Boardgame Expansion: Battles of the Third Age.  Gollum 13.9 x 7.0 cm Lord of the Rings Boardgame Sophisticated Games …. Art Gallery Revised, Aloha & Mahalo, Websites Directory  Nienna: “ those who hearken to her learn pity, and endurance in hope . . . All those who wait in Mandos cry to her, for she brings strength to the spirit and turns sorrow to wisdom." — Valaquenta |
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