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Meli brought this to my mind and i thought it would be intresting, what are you favortie pictures of ME, and its characters? And favortie Tolkien arstist?
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my favourite tolkien artists are john howe and alan lee but i cant decide which is best because there both amazing artists and have done alot of good work but i like alan lees drawings alot as i have the lotr sketchbook and alan lee has done some realy good drawings. i have to many favourite pieces of art but i realy like, decent upon rivendale and the witchking by john howe and i also like gondolin (on the back of the children of hurin) and the stone trolls by alan lee.
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I like Tolkien's own art a lot :)
 
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Where can i find Tolkiens own Art??
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Ranak wrote:I like Tolkien's own art a lot :) Me too.I also like Howe and Lee and my favourite illustration is the one with Hurin and Huor on Eagles travelling to Godolin(CoH). TwoTreesofValinor wrote:Where can i find Tolkiens own Art?? You can find much in Pictures by JRR Tolkien. Also see here.
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I'm quite fond of Tolkien's art, particularly 'Conversation with Smaug'. Out of other artists that have illustrated his works Alan Lee is my favourite. Being a fan of the Moomins I also like Tove Jansson's illustrations of the Hobbit.
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I love Ted Nasmith's Art, especailly as he exhibits regularly. http://www.tednasmith.com/You can find Tolkien's own illustrations in The Hobbit, and some of his other books, or in "Tolkien, Artist and Illustrator" by Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull. "Picturesby JRRT" is a beautiful book, but expensive and hard to find.
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silivrien wrote:"Picturesby JRRT" is a beautiful book, but expensive and hard to find. I remember seeing it in my local Waterstones when it was last available (15ish years ago?). Being a poor teenager with no income I didn't have the money to get it, then a few years later we got the internet and when I started looking for it I was horrified to see the prices. I eventually managed to get one off eBay last year for £20.
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well done, that's a great price!
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Tolkien's drawings touch my heart like none other. They feel a bit "childish", or maybe innocent is a better word for how they make me feel.
John Howe's art is not innocent! I love his work as well, especially depections of the bad guys!
The watercolors of Alan Lee are beautiful. I love the mysterious feeling they evoke.
Ted Naismith is another favorite of mine. I have several Tolkien calendars that he has done.
I have Tolkien's World, which highlights several Tolkien illustrators. I remember seeing other similar collections, but don't have them...yet.
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I beleive there has been a very similar thread to this done earlier but hell, all things bear a little repeating. Personally i think Alan Lee and John Howe produce the best visualisations of Middle-earth. Their work was the basis for what i consider to be the best visualisation of Middle-earth conceived: the Peter Jackson films.
Ted Nasmith's visions i find to be a little too american, with their sweeping vistas of wilderness depicting geographical features and a certain light that you just dont (in my meagre experience) get in Europe. Therefore, impressive though they are, they will never be Tolkienian to me.
J.R.R. Tolkien's own work i dont see much appeal in if i'm honest. Respect goes to him for 'starting the process' and writing the descriptions for other hands to work with but with the exception of his later designs for Orthanc (which clearly show the basis of Alan Lee's/the films' depiction) his other illustrations add nothing more to how i could in my own minds eye envision the scene and so for that reason i dont consider them to fulfil the basic purpose of illustrative art.
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Ah, one of my favourite topics :)
The number one Tolkien illustrator in my book is Alan Lee.
I just love his work - although they had to grow on me!
His illustrations have some special feel of "Englishness" about them that makes them a perfect fit.
I also admire the work of Ted Nasmith very, very much.
But it's a valid point being raised that his art has an American feel to it(I wish he would one day illustrate Fenimore Cooper's "Last of the Mohicans"...)
John Howe provokes mixed feelings in me. I think he is a great
painter and has created fantastic paintings - but I don't like
them as Tolkien illustrations as his interpretations differ too
much from Tolkien's descriptions for my taste.
I don't like Tolkien's "illustrations" at all. Tolkien himself said he's bad at it - and he was right. They served more of helping him describe the locations in his novel - they weren't really meant as illustrations for everybody to see.
My favourite painting? I can't say that - one day you like strawberry the next day you might prefer chocolate. I love to
look at any of Lee's paintings (and drawings!), but lately I've looked at lot at the first watercolour in the illustrated Hobbit, the one that shows Bilbo at the front of Bag's End.
Can you spot Gandalf in this painting? :)
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I like Tolkien's own art not for their illustrative quality, but just for what they are. I like their simplicity, the "old", or "authentic" feeling they convey to me.
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Ranak wrote:I like Tolkien's own art not for their illustrative quality, but just for what they are. I like their simplicity, the "old", or "authentic" feeling they convey to me. Exactly! 
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Tourin Tourabar wrote:Ranak wrote:I like Tolkien's own art not for their illustrative quality, but just for what they are. I like their simplicity, the "old", or "authentic" feeling they convey to me. Exactly! Well, to me they look neither "old" nor "authentic", just ...well, unprofessional, almost like a child's drawings.
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Shimrod wrote:
Well, to me they look neither "old" nor "authentic", just ...well, unprofessional, almost like a child's drawings.
That's exactly what I like about them. Children's art is something I both appreciate and enjoy.
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I personally find Tolkien's artwork amazing, amusing, and old looking. I like them a lot. However, you have the right to have a different opinion.
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did tolkien do much artwork
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jord wrote:did tolkien do much artwork I think that depends upon your defination of "much". He definately spent more time on and produced more writings than art. I particularily like the illustrations he made to go with his Letters From Father Christmas. I love the Polar Bear. He's so very amusing.
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jord wrote:did tolkien do much artwork He did a fair bit, here are someThere are so many fabulous pieces of art and amazing artists that I can't even begin to narrow down my favorites, very few do I actually dislike as with each interpretation they bring a different view of the place or character.
http://tolkiengateway.net - The J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia and Wiki
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