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many time did I sketch Tolkien's characters on my books at
school? No-one knows. And hopefully my teachers never found out! Now that I'm through
with my studies, I find that illustrating Tolkien remains a very enjoyable hobby.
I have added extracts from The
Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. I hope that you will enjoy them. By the
way, please note that none of these pictures were drawn while reading Tolkien's work,
so many of them are inaccurate or differ by minor details or even major lacks. They rely only on
my inspiration and memory.
For each picture, there are several
versions available that range from small to detailed. Choose one according to your screen
resolution and modem speed. The more detailed, the more accurate they will look when printed.
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"Thus it was that the son of Huor rode across Tumladen, and came to the gate
of Gondolin; and passing up the wide stairways of the city he was brought at last to
the Tower of the King, and looked upon the images of the Trees of Valinor." |
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"Against Aeglos the spear of Gil-Galad none could stand; and the sword of Elendil
filled Orcs and Men with fear, for it shone with the light of the sun and of the moon,
and it was named Narsil." |
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"In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole,
filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with
nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that meant
comfort." |
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"Sam Gamgee looked back. Through an opening in the trees he caught a glimpse of
the top of the green bank from which they had climbed down. 'Look!' he said, clutching
Frodo by the arm. They all looked, and on the edge high above them they saw against the
sky a horse standing. Beside it stooped a black figure." |
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"Merry got down and unlocked the gate, and when they had all passed through he pushed
it to again. It shut with a clang, and the lock clicked. The sound was ominous.
'There!' said Merry. 'You have left the Shire, and are now outside, and on the edge
of the Old Forest.' " |
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" 'What a foul thing to happen!' cried Frodo wildly. 'Why did we ever come into
this dreadful Forest? I wish we were all back at Crickhollow!' He kicked the tree with all
his strength, heedless of his own feet. A hardly perceptible shiver ran through the stem
and up into the branches; the leaves rustled and whispered, but with a sound now of faint
and far-off laughter." |
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"Before they could say anything, she sprang lightly up and over the lily-bowls,
and ran laughing towards them; and as she ran her grown rustled softly like the wind in
the flowering borders of a river.
'Come dear folk!' she said, taking Frodo by the hand. 'Laugh and be merry! I am Goldberry,
daughter of the River.' " |
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| The Barrow-wight (17-Jun-2000) |
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"Trembling he looked up, in time to see a tall figure like a shadow against the stars.
It leaned over him. He thought there were two eyes, very cold though lit with a pale light
that seemed to come from some remote distance. Then a grip stronger than iron seized him. The icy
touch froze his bones, and he remembered no more." |
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| On Weathertop (22-Jun-2000) |
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" 'What is the light?' he said to Strider, who had risen, and was standing,
gazing ahead into the night.
'I do not know,' Strider answered. 'It is too distant to make out. It is like
lightning that leaps up from the hill-tops.'
Frodo lay down again, but for a long while he could still see the white flares,
and against them the tall dark figure of Strider, standing silent and watchful." |
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"They saw a valley far below. They could hear the voice of hurrying water in a
rocky bed at the bottom; the scent of trees was in the air; and there was a light on the
valley-side across the water." |
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"He found his friends sitting in a porch on the side of the house looking east.
Shadows had fallen in the valley below, but there was still a light on the faces of the
mountains far above. The air was warm. The sound of running and falling water was loud,
and the evening was filled with a faint scent of trees and flowers, as if summer still
lingered in Elrond's gardens." |
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"On the slab runes were deeply graven. 'These are Daeron's Runes, such as were
used of old in Moria,' said Gandalf. 'Here is written in the tongues of Men and Dwarves:
BALIN SON OF FUNDIN
LORD OF MORIA
'He is dead then,' said Frodo. 'I feared it was so.' Gimli cast his hood
over his face." |
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| The Silverlode (19-July-2000) |
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"Soon afterwards they came upon another stream that ran down from the west,
and joined its bubbling water with the hurrying Silverlode. Together they plunged over
a fall of green-hued stone, and foamed down into a dell." |
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| Cerin Amroth (22-Nov-1998) |
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" 'Here is the heart of Elvendom on earth,' he said, 'and here my heart
dwells ever, unless there be a light beyond the dark roads that we still must
tread, you and I. Come with me!' And taking Frodo's hand in his, he left
the hill of Cerin Amroth and came there never again as living man." |
Last update: 24-Feb-2001 |
