Goodness Laire, you have been busy. Thank you so much for all these [and did you ever finish that essay might I ask?].
I think you've trawled the net even more thoroughly than I have. I must admit I've seen all the Aragorn ones before but not most of the others [totally single mindedly obsessed, who me?] and never these Silmarillion beauties. My God, I thought the Elves were meant to be fair. This bunch of green weirdos would give you nightmares. What's with all the dobermen do you think? And did Orome wear a thong and have a pack of German shepherds snapping at Nahar's heels? My favourite of these has to be the one of Haldir and his brothers waiting for the hobbits to climb up to the talan. I said hobbits but - butch, half naked midgets?
I've not seen that balrog before [where are you on the wings or no wings issue] nor the Saruman one. Yes it looks interesting but not so Saruman himself. Got to agree with you on Boromir and the Eowyn and the Nazgul one. Is that by John Howe. It looks his kind of thing. And I so agree with you on the Storming of the Bank. I've not seen that before. Thanks for digging it out.
But to get back to Aragorn. I admit I'm not a huge fan of the Hildebrant brothers but there are three Aragorn's of theirs I do like and that coronation is one [the others are the healing of Eowyn and 'Leaving Bree' which is my favourite]. Now I so have to take issue with you over Ted, tes, yes, yes! I love both the man and his art and I have hanging on my bedroom wall the one and only painting he has ever done of just Aragorn on his own, no background, just Aragorn striding and I absolutely love it. It is my favourite of all the pre Viggo Aragorns. Ted painted it 30 years ago and it was sitting in his studio until I bought it 3 years back. Its not on the internet but I'll try and take a decent pic and post it.
I so wish you could come to these art exhibitions we have here. You would really love it and the artists are all so generous with their time, you would learn a lot from them too.
Thank you so much for posting all those. I expect I'll include quite a few of these over the next few weeks as we have some fun with them.
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Date: 2009-05-14 09:06 pm (UTC)I think you've trawled the net even more thoroughly than I have. I must admit I've seen all the Aragorn ones before but not most of the others [totally single mindedly obsessed, who me?] and never these Silmarillion beauties. My God, I thought the Elves were meant to be fair. This bunch of green weirdos would give you nightmares. What's with all the dobermen do you think? And did Orome wear a thong and have a pack of German shepherds snapping at Nahar's heels? My favourite of these has to be the one of Haldir and his brothers waiting for the hobbits to climb up to the talan. I said hobbits but - butch, half naked midgets?
I've not seen that balrog before [where are you on the wings or no wings issue] nor the Saruman one. Yes it looks interesting but not so Saruman himself. Got to agree with you on Boromir and the Eowyn and the Nazgul one. Is that by John Howe. It looks his kind of thing. And I so agree with you on the Storming of the Bank. I've not seen that before. Thanks for digging it out.
But to get back to Aragorn. I admit I'm not a huge fan of the Hildebrant brothers but there are three Aragorn's of theirs I do like and that coronation is one [the others are the healing of Eowyn and 'Leaving Bree' which is my favourite]. Now I so have to take issue with you over Ted, tes, yes, yes! I love both the man and his art and I have hanging on my bedroom wall the one and only painting he has ever done of just Aragorn on his own, no background, just Aragorn striding and I absolutely love it. It is my favourite of all the pre Viggo Aragorns. Ted painted it 30 years ago and it was sitting in his studio until I bought it 3 years back. Its not on the internet but I'll try and take a decent pic and post it.
I so wish you could come to these art exhibitions we have here. You would really love it and the artists are all so generous with their time, you would learn a lot from them too.
Thank you so much for posting all those. I expect I'll include quite a few of these over the next few weeks as we have some fun with them.