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macfalk
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Jan 26 2010, 5:04pm
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Alan Lee vs John Howe
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Who is the better artist? I think Alan Lee is slightly better, what do you think?
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Kangi Ska
Gondolin
Jan 26 2010, 6:13pm
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John is great but Alan saw my vision of middle earth.
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the_argonath
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Jan 26 2010, 7:10pm
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diedye
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Jan 26 2010, 9:33pm
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Alan Lee's artwork has a more dreamy, romantic look, whereas John Howe's leans more towards realism and has a harsher quality and more action going on. Personally, I'm a romantic at heart, so Alan appeals to me more (I am enamored with his sketches!), but when it comes to trying to picture what Middle-earth is like, I tend to stick with John (and some Ted Nasmith in there, for good measure).
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fairelvenlady
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Jan 28 2010, 3:31am
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Well, I do like Allan Lee but sometimes his drawings are too sketchy if that makes sense so I would probably go with John Howe but in my opinion my favorite Tolkien artist is Ted Nasmith. His landscapes are amazing! In fact I have bought the Ted Nasmith illustrated Tolkien calender two years in a row.
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Eldy
Dor-Lomin
Jan 28 2010, 8:55pm
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How(e) can you make us choose?
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If I had to though, I'd say John Howe.
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Eldy
Dor-Lomin
Jan 28 2010, 8:56pm
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He's not quite my favourite, but...
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...I do also really like Ted Nasmith. 
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Oiotári
Dor-Lomin
Jan 29 2010, 5:57pm
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I'll have to go with Nasmith as well
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but I do really like Allan Lee's work too
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acheron
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Jan 29 2010, 7:20pm
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not that Alan Lee is bad, I love his art as well.
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One Ringer
Dor-Lomin
Jan 31 2010, 3:52am
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I like both of their designs. I'll side with Alan Lee purely because his illustrations are featured in more of the copies of Tolkien's works that I own. However, John Howe's work was my introduction to visualising Middle-Earth in 'The Hobbit'. Personally, I cannot decide.
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Compa_Mighty
Dor-Lomin
Feb 7 2010, 6:49am
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Very nice Showdown... I go with the fabulous Mr. Howe
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Alan Lee is my least favorite of the three main illustrators. Not that I don't like him, it's just that I like Howe and Nasmith better.
Of course Nasmith should stick to landscape and architecture... comparing Howe's Ulmo with Nasmith's makes the point quite clear.
John Howe is definitely the one I like the most. My laptop's desktop has Glorfindel battling Morgoth. It has been for two years.
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Randolph the Grey
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Feb 22 2010, 3:12am
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I think we should at least mention...
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Greg and Tim Hildebrandt's work as well.
But it's a dead draw for Howe and Lee for me. Different styles, but the one I prefer depends on my mood.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
Elvenhome
Mar 9 2010, 1:53am
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For all their flaws, I love the Hildebrandts best. <3
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As the old saying is, "The first love is the best love". I have all their calendars from the 1970s.
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Eryn
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Mar 27 2010, 3:17pm
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Alan Lee's artwork has a more dreamy, romantic look, whereas John Howe's leans more towards realism and has a harsher quality and more action going on. You took the words right out of my mouth! I find it hard to say which i think is actually better, but I think I prefer alan lee, purely due to the more airy look his drawings have. I like to think of Middle Earth as being gentle and relatively untouched by evil (apart from a few bits of course!), and I like the way alan lee portrays this. I also kind of like the fact that his drawings still leave something to the imagination- I mean, they are not completely precise and photograph-like, which means you can still interpret them yourself. Whereas I find john howe's a lot more exact. This is, of course, not a bad thing, and I do find his art more helpful in actually picturing people and places, but I like the slightly more magical look of Lee's.
Just as a complete side-issue, these are two of my favourite pictures/drawings of Middle Earth ever (there are thousands of others which I also love, but these in particular capture my imagination) Note that both actually by Ted Nasmith, not Howe or Lee...
[URL=http://img231.imageshack.us/i/tednasmiththelampofthev.jpg/]
[URL=http://img691.imageshack.us/i/tnthelightofvalinoronth.jpg/]
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Deni
Ossiriand
Mar 28 2010, 2:11pm
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Alan Lee has the talent to draw so beautiful pictures of the fantastic landscape of middle-earth and of those buildings with a breathtaking architectual style with so much details in it that his art really is phenomenal and ,like I think, inimitable.
Apart from this I love how realistic Alan Lee paints!
John Howe has the talent to paint Tolkien`s characters in a way in which they seem to be alive.In the following I admit some pictures painted by him. They really do look vivid, don't they?
Well,I can``t really say,who I`d prefer, but if I had to decide I would say Alan Lee because I just adore his wonderful arts of Minas Tirith, Rivendell etc...
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Patty
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Apr 2 2010, 5:20pm
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Actually, Lee is my least favorite.
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Howe and Nasmith are my favorites, with a healthy dose of the less Kiebler-elfy looking Hildebrandts thrown in. I usually don't care for Nasmith's faces either, though. I guess I prefer a more "realistic" approach to the "dreamy" that is Lee.
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