Covers and Illustrations

[Turgon]

I was leafing through my copy of 'The Book of Lost Tales II' earlier and was really struck by its cover - It's a picture by Roger Garland of the Fall of Gondolin and shows the Walls of Gondolin being attacked by Tolkien's earlier 'mechanical' dragons and a swarm of orcs coming out of the Dragons' bellies... it's really evocative... Just wondering what everybody else favourite book covers are... or even better, what your favourite Tolkien picture is... my Favourite book cover is the cover of my paperback Silmarillion, showing the Swan Ships of Alqualonde, also by Roger Garland, its beautiful...
As for Tolkien's art, well I'm a big fan of his pictures, there used to be a book in print in England called 'Pictures By JRRT' (think it was published by Unwin) I used to spend ages in the Bookshop looking at it... unfortunately I've not seen it for sale for about ten years now... and the picture books that have replaced it are just not of the same standard, which is sad...
But I love JRRT's picture of Smaug on his bed of gold ('cause he look so cute) and I loved the Heraldic designs he did for the different Houses in the Silmarillion...
Anyone else!?

[Talierin]

I love the heraldic emblems. They're on the box of my old lotr set. I've drawn some like them, though not as good. You can see them on my website.

Hmm, while we're at it, who's your favorite Tolkien artist besides the man himself? I really love Anke Eiszmann's art. It can be found here (http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/a/n/anke/anke.html) and here (http://fan.theonering.net/rolozo/images.php?collection=eiszmann)

[Turgon]

Big thanks for those links Talierin, fantastic... a real eye-opener... only spent about ten minutes or so looking at them, but I've book-marked them for a later viewing... I really loved the Luthien pictures (especially the ones with her face turned away) and the picture of Faramir... oh... and the 'Finrod reminded of his Oath'
I always feel that my favourite Tolkien pictures are the one that agree most with my own idea's of how things should look, so I'm more into individual pictures as opposed to specific artists... one of my favourite Tolkien pictures of all time is the 'City of Tirion' in 'A Tolkien Bestiary' by Linda Garland, I've got a copy of it on my wall... I did it in Oils myself and I'm really proud of it:)

[Talierin]

Yeah, same for me. I really don't like a lot of the big Tolkien artists like Howe, Nasmith, H. Brothers, Lee, etc, because most of the time their art doesn't fit what I imagined. That's why I really love Anke's work--even though it is a little strange--nearly all of it fits what I imagined, especially her latest pencil sketch of Faramir. Also, she does Sil art, which most artists don't do. That one pic of Luthien dancing always makes me get tears in my eyes cause it's so like what I imagined.

I'd love to see your painting! Can you get it scanned?

Heh, I once saw this really nasty pic of Luthien dancing, she was in a bright red bikini....:mad:

[Turgon]

Can't scan my Tirion painting, because it's too big... I tried scanning a few of my other paintings to put into the 'Guild of Artists' but nothing's come out well enough to do them justice. My friend's scanner is the only one I've got access to and it pretty poor...
Luthien in a bright red bikini? Nooooo!!! Surely she'd look better in a blue one...;)

[Hirila]

Try this link.

Wonderful pictures of many artists.

http://www.lycos.de/inc/link/treffer.html?URL=http://user.baden-online.de/~ckraemer/index2.htm