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Legate of Amon Lanc · 04-15-2010, 03:37 AM

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Originally Posted by The Might

Thanks for the tip Legate, just googled "Nasmith Blue" and I found the original, very nice one indeed.

Here's the link: http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/...eying_East.jpg

And thanks to you for looking for it *saves*

It's really beautiful, isn't it? I wonder what the location was supposed to be, if anything. That looks just so cool (thinking about the implications also, after all, we really don't know basically anything about these guys...)

The Might · 04-15-2010, 07:25 AM

Well, if the picture is meant to be based on the books, then the location must be somewhere in the far east of Middle-earth, because there is no Saruman in there, meaning it shows the Blue Wizards after Saruman departed and returned to the west. Who knows, some old forgotten mountain chain in the east, maybe where the fell beasts came from?!

I must agree, I also like it because of the mystery surrounding their mission and its outcome, we really don't know anything.

garm · 04-17-2010, 05:07 PM

I agree with all that has been said about the film - I bought a copy on VHS when it came out, and it's a treat to watch.

The Blue Wizards picture is featured on the cover of the catalogue of ADC books (ADC being Ted's agent). I'm scratching my head; I've had the pleasure of seeing most of Ted's original works 'in the flesh' as it were, and I'm pretty sure I haven't seen this one - yet! I wonder whether it'll feature at his exhibition at Moreton-in Marsh later this year?

davem · 04-17-2010, 11:34 PM

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.

04-15-2010, 07:25 AM	#2
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	Well, if the picture is meant to be based on the books, then the location must be somewhere in the far east of Middle-earth, because there is no Saruman in there, meaning it shows the Blue Wizards after Saruman departed and returned to the west. Who knows, some old forgotten mountain chain in the east, maybe where the fell beasts came from?! I must agree, I also like it because of the mystery surrounding their mission and its outcome, we really don't know anything. __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

04-17-2010, 11:34 PM	#4
davem Illustrious Ulair Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In the home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names,and impossible loyalties Posts: 4,240	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. __________________ “Everything was an object. If you killed a dwarf you could use it as a weapon – it was no different to other large heavy objects."

04-17-2010, 05:07 PM	#3
garm Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 22	I agree with all that has been said about the film - I bought a copy on VHS when it came out, and it's a treat to watch. The Blue Wizards picture is featured on the cover of the catalogue of ADC books (ADC being Ted's agent). I'm scratching my head; I've had the pleasure of seeing most of Ted's original works 'in the flesh' as it were, and I'm pretty sure I haven't seen this one - yet! I wonder whether it'll feature at his exhibition at Moreton-in Marsh later this year?