Tolkien 📔Book Covers

[CirdanLinweilin]

Speaking of cover art, and pretty off-topic: (SORRY! XD)


But I think the art I shared online, once fully done up, will be the art for my Fantasy.





(always on the lookout for artists!)

CL

 

[Elthir]

I'd like to try and draw an Ent someday. Unfortunately I work only slightly faster than an Ent (or I used to, at least).

Computers provide speed to some artists nowadays though. For example, an old school Barry Smith drew every link in the mail here, of course. . .



. . . while recently I watched an artist click on "chainmail" and wherever the "brush" went, instant mail, available for shadow or whatever!

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Well, in the "old days", there was always Zipatone.

 

[Elthir]

Ah. Forgot about Zipatone!

I don't recall using it myself, although I did employ a different thingy -- type that had to be rubbed onto paper.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Letraset?

 

[Elthir]

That's it S-eS! Yep.

Plus, earlier I posted a Tolkienian dragon, forgetting that I could have posted it like this . . .

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Now that is funny. I have the book, but the earlier pic didn’t even resister. Shows how much I've been reading it.

(Have read some, though).

 

[Deleted member 12094]

If you like cover pages, then here is the gold mine, at least for The Hobbit: 715 cover pages in 82 languages! Yes Alice, also in Russian - but only 72 of them…

you will find them here, along with all editorial references.

It’s fascinating!

 

[Alice]

If you like cover pages, then here is the gold mine, at least for The Hobbit: 715 cover pages in 82 languages! Yes Alice, also in Russian - but only 72 of them…

you will find them here, along with all editorial references.

It’s fascinating!

Wow! Even I didn't know that there are 72 Hobbit covers in Russian

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Now there's a serious Hobbit collector!
A Tolkien bookshop that serves beer? A worthy dream!

 

[Barliman]

Now that is funny. I have the book, but the earlier pic didn’t even resister. Shows how much I've been reading it.

Ok, no more books as gifts for you. 😂

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I said I've read some of it! Have you read yours? Hmm? 🧐

 

[Olorgando]

Tolkien's dragon looks good there too

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Exactly the same cover as on my hardcover "Hobbit" (where top and bottom cut off a bit, but it's slightly wider). 😀

 

[Alice]

Exactly the same cover as on my hardcover "Hobbit" (where top and bottom cut off a bit, but it's slightly wider). 😀

It's "Monsters and the critics"
Nice that they used this illustration for cover art

 

[Ealdwyn]

This is only special for sentimental reasons, as it's the version I first read. One unwieldy volume, ridiculously thin paper, and no proper maps.

This is the set I own. I bought these about 30 years ago and I remember being thrilled to finally have the big pull-out maps. 😍

 

[Elthir]

I like those Ealdwyn!

But hey, they left out Beleg Strongbow on that Two Towers cover (at least on the front)

🐾

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Alice has more Russian Tolkien books she could show us, but hesitates to do so, very modestly -- if mistakenly, IMHO -- believing there's already "too much of me" on this thread. So I'm carrying out my threat to post a few illustrations from one of the Russian artists -- but only the black-and-white; I'll leave the color paintings and covers to her. Maybe, if we all close our eyes, and wish really hard, we can get her to do it.

In the meantime, The Silmarillion:

The Hobbit:

LOTR:

Interesting takes, IMO.


PS, on "too much": given the amount of babbling I do here, I feel like responding in my Vincent Price voice -- with suitable curl of the lip:
"You don't even know the meaning of the words".

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

Alice has more Russian Tolkien books she could show us, but hesitates to do so, very modestly believing there's already "too much of me" on this thread. So I'm carrying out my threat to post a few illustrations from one of the Russian artists -- but only the black-and-white; I'll leave the color paintings and covers to her. Maybe, if we all close our eyes, and wish really hard, we can get her to do it.

Meanwhile, The Silmarillion:
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The Hobbit:
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LOTR:
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Interesting takes, IMO.


PS, on "too much": given the amount of babbling I do here, I feel like responding in my Vincent Price voice -- with suitable curl of the lip:
"You don't even know the meaning of the words".

These are amazing!!



And More Alice!



CL

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Alice has more Russian Tolkien books she could show us, but hesitates to do so, very modestly -- if mistakenly, IMHO -- believing there's already "too much of me" on this thread. So I'm carrying out my threat to post a few illustrations from one of the Russian artists -- but only the black-and-white; I'll leave the color paintings and covers to her. Maybe, if we all close our eyes, and wish really hard, we can get her to do it.

In the meantime, The Silmarillion:
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The Hobbit:
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View attachment 7059



LOTR:
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Interesting takes, IMO.


PS, on "too much": given the amount of babbling I do here, I feel like responding in my Vincent Price voice -- with suitable curl of the lip:
"You don't even know the meaning of the words".

Is that first one from LOTR the Paths of the Dead?

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I assume so.