For a long while I owned an orginal Tolkien elf exclusively, artwise at least: Salgant, Lord of the Harp, an elf from Gondolin ( Read more... )

(this entry is dedicated to Maggie Honeybite, for obvious reasons ( Read more... )

It's Tolkien Thing time again! Next weekend, the German branch of the Tolkien Society will meet in Diez in a castle - nowadays it's run as a youth hostel. After Alan Lee last year, this year's special guest is Ted Nasmith.

(Edit: Sorry I didn't cut this post! Didn't mean to clog your f-list.)
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This comes as a surprise, but I hope you had a wonderful day!
Here is a link that was brought to my attention recently, with some Tolkien illustrations. The last pic is a slightly Greek looking Glorfindel that you might like.

http://community.livejournal.com/ru_tolkien_art/18559.html

My Visit to the LotR movies exhibition in Berlin has encouraged me to finally pick up the idea again to make some LotR miniature dolls. Or rather, the merchandising booth at the entrance did it, which sold, among other things, a wide range of figurines which I mostly found easy to resist buying.
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I'm now going to fullfill my threat/ promise to unleash some half-baked sketches of Ecthelion and Glorfindel to the world at large, a promise that I made a week ago in Tehta's livejournal.

Anyone who is not interested in a dozen headstudies of elves would do better to skip the rest of this post. For the rst of you, on with the show!
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Well, I'm back, as Sam said. And here, as promised, is my report from Tolkien Thing.

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I finally decided I might as well do something with my LJ. So first thing, I friended back several nice people who have expressed some interest in my blathering by friending me. *waves ( Read more... )