Media: Gouache on illustration board A privately commissioned work, April 2005.
Category: J. R. R. Tolkien
This section contains the largest collection of images: examples of my work from the 1970’s to the present inspired chiefly by J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, but also The Hobbit and The Silmarillion.
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Goblin Gate
Media: Gouache on illustration board Dimensions: 7½ in × 6 ½ in First appeared as part of the Middle-earth Collectible Card Game, published by Iron Crown Enterprises in the mid-1990s.
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The Spiders of Mirkwood
Media: Gouache on illustration board Dimensions: 7¾ in × 6½ in First appeared as part of the Middle-earth Collectible Card Game, published by Iron Crown Enterprises in the mid-1990s.
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Scouring the Mountain
Media: Gouache on illustration board First appeared in the 1996 Tolkien Calendar, published by HarperCollins. (It was the painting for April, and was featured on the cover.) Also used as the package art and centerpiece for The Hobbit: The Defeat of the Evil Dragon Smaug, a board game published in 2001 by Sophisticated Games Ltd.
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Durin I discovers the Three Peaks
Media: Gouache on illustration board
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Thrain discovers the Lonely Mountain
Media: Gouache on illustration board
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Gandalf and Thorin at Bree
Media: Gouache on illustration board
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A conversation with Smaug (colour sketch)
Media: Gouache on illustration board
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A conversation with Smaug (thumbnail)
Media: Gouache on illustration board
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Bilbo and the Eagles
Media: Gouache on illustration board
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