The Art of the Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

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To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator’, The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion’ and the two-volume ‘J. When satisfied that the image is composed well, I will either proceed to a full size drawing or paint a scaled down ‘postcard’ version of the scene. I was fascinated to look over his shoulder in those processes of design to see what aspects bothered him and what delighted him. Showcases a significant amount of original art by JRR Tolkien himself, with extensive commentary on each drawing by the editors, providing very interesting pieces of information.

The Art of The Lord of the Rings is somewhat different from the earlier book about The Hobbit because Tolkien didn’t complete full-color, watercolor illustrations for the publication of LOTR as he had for The Hobbit.I really learned to appreciate what an immense job it had been and how precise Tolkien was with every little detail. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in South Africa in 1892 and moved to England with his family while still a child. The first opportunity to dip into Tolkien’s work professionally came with Castles, in 1984, which was a heavily illustrated account of the role played by these impressive and often magical structures in myth, romance and literature. However, on the opposite end of the spectrum, are the many scribbles and hurried drawings often found in the margins of the manuscript. Once more, an optimal illustration size was utilized throughout the volume to give readers the chance to properly inspect and appreciate J.

This official book contains over 400 exclusive images; the very best artworks from the first three Art books are collected together, many much larger than they have been seen before, with all-new text and information and new interviews with many of the artists.

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