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08-17-2007, 05:51 PM
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Drummer in the Deep
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Next Sunday A.D.
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Psst...I did post that one as a Crazy Caption a while back...
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08-17-2007, 08:05 PM
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Mellifluous Maia
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: A glade open to the stars, deep in Nan Elmoth
Posts: 3,489
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Last edited by Rikae; 08-17-2007 at 08:16 PM. |
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09-10-2007, 08:53 PM
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Animated Skeleton
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Racine, WI
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Oh my goodness, yes, he looks like Inigo...
But his boots are far too big. |
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01-20-2008, 01:39 AM
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 347
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It's horrible! Horrible! It makes me sick! *wheezing*
How could anyone create that? Terrible person.... |
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01-20-2008, 09:01 AM
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Relic of Wandering Days
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: You'll See Perpetual Change.
Posts: 1,480
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I have to wonder if the artists themselves are happy with what they have done, or if their intent has surpassed their skill. It is so much easier to criticise than create. That being said, I wish that artists whose style does not lend itself to such subjects, wouldn't feel compelled to attempt it!
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01-20-2008, 07:58 PM
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Wight
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Green Hill Country
Posts: 196
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The Might's Best Worst Illustration
For your consideration and comment per a request of me from The Might, an unused (for reasons which will become apparent even without the obvious error in the artwork) illustration for a Tolkien calendar (see attachment).
I appreciate davem's comments and find what is wrong with many of the bad (or worst) illustrations in them. It is easy to be critical of the illustrators (justly or not) when their concept of Middle-earth fails to match ours. The imagery conjured up in our minds' eyes by Tolkien's masterful prose can never be matched by an illustrator's ... no matter how good they are or how close they come to what we have seen we have become lost in the books. In spite of that, I have collected well over 200 Tolkien calendars and I very much enjoy the attempts the hundreds of artists have made. However, some are wrong (or, in the vernacular, "That just ain't right!") In "The Last Stewards", the prostitutes on the left, Aragorn's disinterest in the Sceptre of Numenor, and the inattentive rudeness of the apparently bored clowns on the left (what could possibly be more important to discuss at that moment??) "just ain't right!" Away from The Green Hill Country, Parmastahir
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01-21-2008, 07:21 AM
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Guard of the Citadel
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Oxon
Posts: 2,205
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Thanks, Parmastahir!
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