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Lissuin
Valinor
Jun 19 2016, 1:57am
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Alan Lee shows his art at Tolkien Society, May 2016
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The Tolkien Society have kindly posted a video from their Annual Dinner 2016 on YouTube. The guest speaker, Alan Lee, gave a slide presentation of his Tolkien-related works and then answered questions. It's over an hour of interesting background on his film work and his processes as an artist in general.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFXWYrJM_PI
In response to a question (1:02:25) about his future projects, he replied that he's been back (from New Zealand) for about a year and has tried to avoid big deadlines for a while, is writing, developing stories, doing landscape drawing, and
"I'm doing a few odds and ends for Warner Brothers, connected with the films and forthcoming DVD's and stuff like that, so bits of design work, bits of packaging" Hmmmmm. What's in the works?  
(sigh) Too bad about Elrond the Falconer. That would have been nice to see. (0:23:45) Scary faerie. The Carrock. A Hobbit post office. Sleeping stone giants. Lots of gems in here.
And the final question was humorous and tantalizing. 
What a lovely man! Enjoy.
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dormouse
Half-elven
Jun 19 2016, 6:03pm
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Just watched the beginning....
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...and will be back soon as I can to watch it through - thanks for letting us know.
When Children of Hurin came out there was a signing at Waterstones in Piccadilly in London. They made quite a day of it - first the signing, then various talks. Bernard Hill read some of the book, they showed a film about Tolkien, Adam Tolkien spoke. After all this there was to be a slide talk by Alan Lee in an upstairs lecture theatre. The room filled but things didn't start on time; for some reason the projector wouldn't work - wrong lead, I think, but I may be remembering it wrong. There was a lot of faffing about and people started leaving. Then Alan Lee offered to show the slides on his laptop to those of us who had stayed on. Couldn't have been more than about 8 people and I thought we were really lucky because in so small a group we could just talk to him about the illustrations as he went along, and it was more of a conversation. It was brilliant - and he is a lovely man, as you say.
The forthcoming DVDs and stuff sounds promising!
For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood and every spring
there is a different green. . .
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Arthael
Lorien
Jun 21 2016, 11:15pm
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Very exciting! Hopefully they aren't too far off...maybe this Christmas?
I can't wait to settle in and watch the whole presentation tonight!
"There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go."
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