Tolkien Artwork

[Deimos]

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. 😟)

 

[Deimos]

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.”

 

[Glorfindel Goldtress]

BY TOLKIEN HIMSELF!!!

J. R. R. Tolkien - Beleg finds Gwindor in Taur-na-Fúin (titled Fangorn Forest because such was its early name)

 

[Eljorahir]

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)

That illustration is on the cover of my paperback The Two Towers. Are you sure it's Gwindor and Beleg?

 

[Glorfindel Goldtress]

That illustration is on the cover of my paperback The Two Towers. Are you sure it's Gwindor and Beleg?

Yea, it's also in a Tolkien illustration book I found referenced online to the image as I was searching for Tolkien's art of Beleg.

 

[Server Room Gremlin]

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.

Beleg had a sword with him, Anglachel.

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.

 

[Starbrow]

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."

 

[Eljorahir]

Here's the Mirkwood illustration. I looked closely for Bilbo in here, but all I found was a spider.

 

[Server Room Gremlin]

Tom Bombadil and the hobbits in the Barrow-downs

https://chechula.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F790332717605732352

 

[Eljorahir]

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.'

 

[Eljorahir]

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.'

 

[Berzelmayr]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1950562275472839028

by Tom Giles (@gom_tiles)

 

[Server Room Gremlin]

https://thelien-art.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F790617921905917952

 

[Maedhros_Nelyafinwë]

https://thelien-art.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F790617921905917952

All the Fëanorian stars on the wall... in red and blue, I notice... 👀

 

[Server Room Gremlin]

All the Fëanorian stars on the wall... in red and blue, I notice... 👀

They could also be references to Elrond's name (star dome), or to Eärendil. They may be eight-pointed, but they don't look the same as the star on the Doors of Durin.

 

[Server Room Gremlin]

Also, looking closer, there are birds around the stars. References to Elwing and Eärendil, maybe?

 

[Maedhros_Nelyafinwë]

They could also be references to Elrond's name (star dome), or to Eärendil. They may be eight-pointed, but they don't look the same as the star on the Doors of Durin.

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Sure, but I prefer the idea that Elrond wanted to show his love for his "adopted" dad and uncle despite all the people telling him he shouldn't!

 

[Berzelmayr]

Thorin & his precious
by Norloth

https://www.instagram.com/norloth/

 

[Berzelmayr]

Wainrider Captain
by David Horne

https://www.artstation.com/dhillustrator

 

[Berzelmayr]

Legolas draws bow.
A Gift from Galadriel
By Michael Kaluta

M.W.Kaluta: Tolkien Calendar Illustrations

M.W. Kaluta's Illustrations of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, done for a 1994 calendar.

www.kaluta.com