To change the subject (
), I found the following comment by
Kuruharan on another thread (
Melkor's depiction by artists: Flawed?) interesting in this context:
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Originally Posted by Kuruharan
(It is kind of hard to disagree with how Tolkien drew Smaug in my own view)
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Do we include Tolkien's own drawings and paintings of the peoples and locations of Middle-earth within "Middle-earth Canon"? It seems to me that they clearly fall within the third option on the poll, which refers to his "ideas" being included. Which would mean that any concept of Middle-earth which contradicted any of Tolkien's own illustrations would be non-canonical.