How Do You Envision Middle-Earth?

[Diamond18]

Bill! Wow! That is a great drawing of Aragorn (though it does looks like he's dancing [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ).
(Edit: I was talking about Bill's drawing, now in the below post.)

In the Hildebrandt brothers one he looks too clean to me. I mean, there was all that talk about how suspcious and "foul" he looked, so I expected his clothes to be muddier.

Suddenly Frodo noticed that a strange-looking weather beaten man, sitting in the shadows near the wall, was also listening intently to the hobbit-talk. He had a tall tankard in front of him, and was smoking a long-stemmed pipe curiously carved. His legs were strechted out before him, showing high boots of supple leather that fitted him well, but had seen much wear and were now caked with mud. A travel-stained cloak of heavy dark-green cloth was drawn close around him, and in spite of the heat of the room he wore a hood that overshadowed his face; but the gleam of his eyes could be seen as he watched the hobbits.

So, splatter some mud on that HB painting and you've got it made. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Can't go without a favorite Pippin quote (while I've got the book open to this part):

But handsome is as handsome does, as we say in the Shire; and I daresay we shall all look much the same after lying for days in hedges and ditches.

[ February 02, 2003: Message edited by: Diamond18 ]