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Old 04-17-2010, 11:34 PM   #16
davem
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The Blue Wizards picture is on the cover of the new Harper Collins paperback of Unfinished Tales, & is the March picture on the 2010 Tolkien Calendar. I love the landscape but, as with most of Ted's work, I don't like the figures - why are they both dressed exactly alike, & both in silly pointy hats? The only wizard referred to in Tolkien's work with a pointy hat is Gandalf, & I think its best assumed that's a bit of eccentricity on his part (actually, I think Tolkien just lazily adopted a standard fairy tale trope when he created the character for The Hobbit, & continued on with it when he came to write the 'sequel' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy...nd_conventions.
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