Image(s) of the Day

[randy_byers]

Hey, kalimac, have you seen this: "Russian Lord of the Rings Illustrations Make Middle-Earth Look More Medieval"?

Ten illustrations, including this:

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[kalimac]

Well, those are impressive. Though they're not the first to do that. Leaving aside Pauline Baynes' brilliant manuscript-illumination pastiches for Farmer Giles of Ham, there was a darling diorama of The Hobbit done for the American Tolkien Society by an artist whose name I cannot remember; and, above all, this wonderful pastiche by Patrick Wynne identified as a woodcut from a 15th-century German edition of the Silmarillion, depicting the confrontation between Feanor and Fingolfin.

[randy_byers]

That's terrific!