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And the work [above] by Naismith reminded me of this...
I can't identify the artist and I can't recall where I copied this from.
It may be a bit stylized but I love the colors, the curtain of falling water, the two jars....(I want to go there so bad...and can't. 😟)

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Wow. Tho' I can and do appreciate the talent and skill of the tattoo artist to do something like this, one has to question the presence of mind (or lack thereof) that prompted the customer to have it done. 🙄

Still, as Miss Jean Brodie says, “For those who like that sort of thing that is the sort of thing they like.”
 
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That illustration is on the cover of my paperback The Two Towers. Are you sure it's Gwindor and Beleg?
Close ups of the two individuals in the illustration. They don't look like Merry and Pippin in Fangorn to me.

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Beleg had a sword with him, Anglachel.


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And Beleg found someone 'lying asleep at the foot of a great dead tree' in Taur-nu-Fuin, which turned out to be Gwindor, who had escaped from Angband.

Perhaps Tolkien simply used the illustration for Fangorn as it looked similar enough.
 
BY TOLKIEN HIMSELF!!!

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J. R. R. Tolkien - Beleg finds Gwindor in Taur-na-Fúin (titled Fangorn Forest because such was its early name)
This is what I found in Pictures by J.. R. R. Tolkien with notes by Christopher Tolkien.
"My father stated in a letter of 1937 that the picture of Mirkwood for The Hobbit was itself redrawn from a painting made earlier to illustrate the passage in The Silmarillion where Beleg finds Gwindor in the forest of Taur-nu-Fuin. That painting is beyond question the one reproduced here, despite the title 'Fangorn Forest'... The only possible explanation is that my father decided that the Silmarillion painting could nevertheless be used, in the 1974 calendar, as an illustration of the hobbits in Fangorn Forest. It was probably done at the same time as the other Silmarillion paintings in the late 1920s."
 
And Beleg found someone 'lying asleep at the foot of a great dead tree' in Taur-nu-Fuin, which turned out to be Gwindor, who had escaped from Angband.
The text in Children of Hurin includes Gwindor's lamp and lampshade. Maybe those are the two objects next to him on the ground in Tolkien's painting.

'Benighted in that evil land, it chanced that Beleg saw a small light among the trees, and going towards it he found an Elf, lying asleep beneath a great dead tree: beside his head was a lamp, from which the covering had slipped off.'
 
J. R. R. Tolkien - Beleg finds Gwindor in Taur-na-Fúin (titled Fangorn Forest because such was its early name)
Just a little more on this one:

The forest of Taur-nu-Fuin, on the cover of The Two Towers belongs on the cover in another way. Treebeard mentions the place in his chant (under its other name "Dorthonion"):

'To the pine-trees upon the highland of Dorthonion I climbed in the Winter.
Ah! the wind and the whiteness and the black branches of Winter upon Orod-na-Thon!
My voice went up and sang in the sky.'
 

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