Media: Gouache on illustration board Dimensions: 7½ in × 6 ½ in First appeared as part of theMiddle-earth Collectible Card Game, published by Iron Crown Enterprises in the mid-1990s.
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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Tuor Reaches the Hidden City of Gondolin
Media: Gouache on illustration board First appeared in the 1996 Tolkien Calendar, published by HarperCollins. (It was the painting for June.)
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The Shores of Valinor
Media: Gouache on illustration board Dimensions: 45 cm × 31 cm Limited edition prints are available First appeared in the 1992 (Centenary) Tolkien Calendar, published by Grafton Books. (It was the painting for June.) Was also later used by the Lonely Mountain Band for the cover of their first album, “Beyond the Western Seas”
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Morgoth and the High King of Noldor
Media: Gouache on illustration board First appeared in the 1992 (Centenary) Tolkien Calendar, published by Grafton Books. (It was the painting for October.)
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Tuor at Vinyamar
Media: Gouache on illustration board First appeared in the 1992 (Centenary) Tolkien Calendar, published by Grafton Books. (It was the painting for July.)
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The Ships of the Faithful
Media: Gouache on illustration board First appeared in the illustrated edition of The Silmarillion, and The Silmarillion Poster Collection, published by HarperCollins in 1998. Used on the cover of some editions of The Silmarillion. The sea is once again the focus in the dramatic apocalypse vision of The Ships of the Faithful, where the remnant of Numenorean nobility desperately …
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