Post any LotR art that was made before the movies.
How's that Games Workshop strategy game doing anyway?
>>96609897MERP has the fun ones.
>>96610537
>>96610543Now I know where all those Southern Gondorians come from.
>>96610549Nice armor.
>>96610573I wasn't expecting dreadlocks Éomer.
>>96610583
>>96610594
>>96610603>The fuck is this tree saying to meI'm done for now, but there's more.
>>96610549>based on lotr>Steel cuirass and poleyns :\
The old Finnish cover illustrations for the first Finnish translation were some of the fantasy illustrations ever made.
>>96610603Didn't know Galadriel actually was an ABBA fan
>>96610830Aragorn has never been this sexy since
>>96610549Cool how they gave the Umbaran the Numenorean helmet Tolkien drew.
>>96610537All of these are really cool. I think I'll go digging for the PDFs in the usual places.
Think it was post the animated movie, but did anyone else play the board game Riddle of the Rings?
>>96610830>were some of the fantasy illustrations ever made.I mean it's undebatable, yes.
Ian Miller dwarf from the Tolkien Bestiary
>>96609897Tove Jansson of Moomin fame did illustrations for the Swedish and Finnish versions of the hobbit
>>96616150
>>96616141>"And so Thorin's lifted his axe and yell at the sky 'Fuck you Smaug , FUCK YOU!'"
>>96616155
>>96616160
>>96616167
>>96616171
>>96616178
>>96616188
>>96616198
>>96616206
>>96616157I think the one in pink is supposed to be Bilbo
>>96616215Also love her depiction of gollum based upon how he was originally described
>>96616245
>>96616255And that's all I have
>>96616261Dig up Soviet Hobbit. Very unique illustrations
>>96616302Jesus the legs on Bilbo. He looks like a Sasquatch
>>96611606heh, neat
>>96616160Tolkien saw this and added"a small and slimy creature" to the description of Gollum in his next edition lol>>96616238lol yeah
>>96609897
>>96616404I love Frazetta's art, and this one is good too but I can never get past how stupid it is
>>96616410Makes me wonder how he imagined average Rohan male warrior if that passed as Eowyn disguising herself as a man.
>>96616225I wasn't expecting pink white hair Bilbo with an axe.
Some of Tim Kirk's Tolkien art from 1970s.
As far as I know this is the first ever known artwork of green skinned orcs.
>>96616160Gollum if his cave had a gym.
>>96609897Aragorn looking mighty swarthy over there.
>>96609897Why is Aragorn a cave man?
>>96616730wouldn't surprise me if whoever worked on Aragorn heard that he was a chieftan of the dunedain and thought "chief? like on of those injuns? alright"
>>96616141This reminds me of the Gene Deitch short
>>96616302https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2_dhUv_CrI
>>96616843Think about how much better the books & movies would have been if Aragorn were a burly, slope-browed neanderthal with no knowledge of language or etiquette who wears a leopard skin knotted over his shoulder in a crude toga like garment and who resolves every interaction by grunting and bashing someone's head into paste with his great gnarled caveman club. That would be a much better story than the crap we got stuck with.
>>96619510Minas Tirith having a black outer wall is more lore-accurate, but I like Naismith's first painting better. The question I've always had was, if the Numenoreans had technology to make black walls like this (by melting stone down into obsidian?) did the dwarves know about this? Could they do the same thing?
>>96619522
>>96609897>before the movies>posts movie screenshot
>>96620625>the moviesThe plural is key. Bakshi only made one movie unless I'm completely braindead and mistaken.
>>96620411One of my favorites.
>>96616404I guess Frank didn't get the note that Eowyn was disguised as a man.
>>96620815There's not a lot of blood in his brain when he draws
>>96618989I always thought this was an mtg card
>>96619522I know this is about pre-Peter Jackson stuff, but a lot of the Dwarf architecture there actually does kinda look like it might be. Also, the Shadow of Mordor games explicitly have Dwarf-made weapons reverse engineered from Numenorean tech.
>>96616849I was thinking he looks kind of Hawaiian or something. He's supposed to be related to the Numenoreans and Numenor was an island nation, you see.
>>96619522>artist actually remembering the farms that surround citieskino
>>96616321Leg razors are a tool of the bourgeoisie.
>>96619522>>96620366Always liked MT in an alpine environment but it doesn't make an inch of sense>>96616730If he had any pants I'd probably prefer vaguely native american Aragorn over PJ version.
>>96620712Bakshi did the LotR movie and Rankin/Bass did the Hobbit movie.
>>96623484Rankin-Bass also did a RotK movie. (I like how the Pelennor Fields genuinely look like fields here.)
>>96623619It's really funny if you watch them in chronological order too because the style for certain characters like Gollum changes from the Hobbit Rankin-Bass look to the Bakshi film then back to the Rankin-Bass style for the ROTK one
>>96620815Tangentially, I find it odd that, at least to my knowledge, no artist has put Eowyn in the Sutton Hoo helmet. That seems like such an obvious thing, and yet...
>>96625341The helmet she wore in the movie did look fairly similar to the Sutton Hoo helmet, it just left her mouth exposed in order to allow her to emote.
>>96610537What a great cover
These spiders scared me as a kid.
>>96616410Maybe they all dressed very slutty.
Tom Loback's artworks are also very nice
>>96616730Bakshi's Aragorn is why I immediately spit on chuds crying about black Aragorn in MtG.
>>96630238Aragorn is one of the few characters that are fine blackwashed because it doesn't clash with his ancestry too hard
>>96632000Any phrenology aside, it's the fact that he has been countlessly depicted as varying size, shape, and saturation. There's nothing LotR MtG did beside make him plainly afro that hasn't already been done, and that's no worse a sin than making him a bit portly with a moustache or cromagnon.
>>96630238While I don't particularly care for that either, the greater offense is that they depict Anduril as literally being a flaming sword in a couple different pieces. That alone is enough to cast doubt onto the integrity of WotC's vision.
