Here is the definitive (in my mind) picture of
Smaug. Those Hildebrandt brothers sure know how to draw a dragon, too. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
But the Balrog from the movie would send this
Balrog home crying for its mother. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img]
This is the only
Tom Bombadil picture I've ever seen, and I think it fits with my mental image very well.
This, amazingly, is supposed to be the
Uruk-hai. No, no, no, no! They were definitely humanoid in my mind.
I like the way the Hidlebrandt Brothers portrayed the Hobbits except that in some pictures their faces are too childlike. This is because they actually used children as models. Also, Sam looks too fat and stupid (fatter than Sean Astin was in the movie, which I didn't think was all that fat). But I do prefer the overly childlike faces to the ones of Nasmith and Lee (Lee likes putting lank blond hair on hobbits. Huuuuh?). And Pippin always looks so gosh darn cute in the Hildebrandt pictures.
Anyway, my final two pics from the H Bros (for now [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]) is one of the
Fellowship, and one of
Legolas and Gimli. In both cases, I think that Legolas should sue. (Note the cute fringe.) But Boromir and Aragorn look particularly noble.