Latest Tolkien art from Jef Murray

[inzilbeth]

 

I thought I'd share these two paintings which arrived in my Inbox this morning. I'm not quite sure about Meduseld as it looks rather precarious and in danger of sliding off the hilside but the one of Andúnië in its later  years is suitably brooding and troubled, I think.

I haven't yet got the knack of posting photos since upgrading to Internet Explorer 7 about a week ago. I don't seem to be able to copy and paste them into the text any more, hence the double cut! 

Comments

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

Oh, those are very mysterious and evocative, aren't they? Umm, not exactly how I picture Meduseld, but there you go... we all have different takes on things. Andúnië... gosh, it's beautiful and tragic. You feel the waves are already working at it.

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

I'm rather bemused by the Meduseld one actually as, to me, with it's archways and columns, the building is very like the movie one yet Jef has been quite vocal in speaking against the reproduction of movie based images. Odd. I do like the sky in it though.

Yes, beautiful and tragic covers it well for Andunie.

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

You know, the more I look at it, the more I think it actually looks a lot like a church. The city I grew up in had a lot of church buildings that looked very much like that, and the more I look at it, the more I think, "Oh, that's the 1st Presbyterian Church on Grand Avenue, plucked up and plunked down on a mountain somewhere." LOL

[inzilbeth-liz.livejournal.com]

Lol! You're right, it does look like a church. I wonder if Jef ever visited the place where you grew up!

[cairistiona7.livejournal.com]

One wonders! Of course, there's not really a 1st Presbyterian on Grand... well, there might be... but I just pulled that name out of a hat. But a lot of the churches up there really do look like that.