The Hobbit (Illustrated Edition)- By J.R.R. Tolkien (Author) & Alan Lee (Illustrator)

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As conceptual designer for the films, it is Alan's job to create the distinctive "look" of Middle Earth. Outside of the author's own, Alan Lee's illustrations have become the most admired and recognisable renderings of Middle-earth and its inhabitants. The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century.

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But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey ‘there and back again’. Two were Rosemary Sutcliff's versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey—namely, Black Ships Before Troy (Oxford, 1993) and The Wanderings of Odysseus (Frances Lincoln, 1995). For illustrating Merlin Dreams by Peter Dickinson (1988), he won the annual Chesley Award for Best Interior Illustration [12] and he was a highly commended runner-up for the Greenaway Medal.Another was Adrian Mitchell's version of Ovid's Metamorphoses—namely, Shapeshifters ( Frances Lincoln, 2009). When not working on film locations, Alan still makes his home on Dartmoor in southwest England, where his studio takes up two floors of an ancient, rose-covered stone barn. Publisher's original green cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine and dragon illustration to the upper board, in Alan Lee illustrated dustwrapper.

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To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it. He also made two cameo appearances, in the opening sequence of The Fellowship as one of the nine kings of men who became the Nazgûl, and in The Two Towers as a Rohan soldier in the armory (over the shoulder of Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn and Legolas talk in Elvish). His interests include myth and folklore, literature, poetry, music (particularly jazz, blues, and the singing of June Tabor), archaeology, history, international travel, and long walks through Devon woodland. Lee took a year out to work as a graveyard gardener, a job that bridged nature and civilisation in the way his Uxbridge childhood had, and also later fed into his Middle-earth work. Tolkien (1892-1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and The Children of Hurin, plus other stories and essays.

Lee worked as a conceptual designer on the films Legend, Erik the Viking, King Kong and the television mini-series Merlin. Lee had just moved to the edge of Dartmoor when he was contacted by the director Peter Jackson, who was about to adapt The Lord of the Rings for film and wanted Lee on board to help create the look of Middle-earth.

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A major portfolio of Lee's Middle-earth illustrations was published in 2005 as The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook, which gained immense popularity. For his 1978 book with Brian Froud, Faeries, Lee was runner-up for the fantasy Locus Award, year's best art or illustrated book. Landscape format Quarto (9 1/4" tall 12 1/4" wide), illustrated embossed boards trimmed in silver and red, illustrated endpapers, cover center illustration of the battle by Monique Hamon, removable 11 3/4" x 7 1/4" color print ('The Necromancer' / Gus Hunter) tipped in on rear pastedown endpaper (see scan); 257 pp. For that year's work he won the annual World Fantasy Award, Best Artist, at the 1998 World Fantasy Convention.With no more films on the horizon, Lee is happy to be back in his studio on Dartmoor, where he predominantly works in watercolours and experiments with digital techniques he learned in New Zealand. Since that time, Alan has established himself as one of England's preeminent book artists, creating exquisite watercolor paintings for, among other works, The Mabinogion, Castles, Merlin Dreams, and Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Illiad (winner of the pretigious Kate Greenaway Award), and for the lavish anniversary edition of J. If it is, it’s a sumptuous volume to end on, illustrated with Lee’s black-and-white ink drawings and full-colour watercolour plates.

The Hobbit: Alan Lee Illustrated Edition by J. R. R. Tolkien

Tolkien are among his most notable interiors: the Tolkien centenary edition of The Lord of the Rings (1992), a 1999 edition of The Hobbit that has been boxed with it, and Narn i Chîn Húrin: The Children of Húrin (2007). His books have been translated into over 40 languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.Tolkien's mythology; much of their art became authoritative in the art direction behind Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Edited by Tolkien’s 93-year-old son Christopher, this volume – like its predecessors, The Children of Húrin and Beren and Lúthien – has been assembled from the author’s detailed notes. Five years later, he won the Kate Greenaway Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. First printing 2001 of an edition published for Dealerfield Limited being a reprint of the 60th Anniversary edition of 1997 illustrated by Alan Lee. Lee and John Howe were the lead concept artists of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films [5] and were recruited by director Guillermo del Toro in 2008 for continuity of design in the subsequent The Hobbit films, [5] [6] before joining Jackson when he took over the Hobbit films project.