The Art of the Lord of the Rings

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In 1979, Tolkien's son Christopher began the process of bringing his father's artwork to the world's attention, beyond the images already published at that time on calendars, by editing Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien. [T 10] It had 48 plates, some in colour. [6] Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 19 February 2006 . Retrieved 29 May 2006. McIlwaine, Catherine (2018). Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth. Bodleian Library. ISBN 978-1-851-24485-0. bw): Cedric Gibbons, Edward Carfagno, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason /(c): Paul Sheriff, Marcel Vertès The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún · The Fall of Arthur · The Story of Kullervo · The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun

So as a few examples of what you will find- how Tolkien was able to create the Elvish script for the inscription on the One Ring. I especially enjoyed the various maps of the Shire or Mordor and the various stages of the world-building that eventually developed into the fully fleshed-out epic that is LOTR. Influences on Tolkien's artwork identified by scholars include Japonisme, Art Nouveau, Viking design, and William Morris. Japonisme is seen in stylised features like Tolkien's mountains, waves, and dragons. The influence of Morris's book Some Hints on Pattern Designing, which Tolkien owned, appears in his designs for tiles and heraldic devices for The Silmarillion. [11] Among the numerous works by J. R. R. Tolkien that he has illustrated are the 1992 centenary edition of The Lord of the Rings, a 1999 edition of The Hobbit, the 2007 The Children of Húrin, the 2017 Beren and Lúthien, the 2018 The Fall of Gondolin, and the 2022 The Fall of Númenor. [2] [3] Among the illustrations 101 are previously unpublished, and 42 are published in colour for the first time. Not a lot is to be said about this book. If you're looking at it you're already a Tolkien fan and are aware of his books and beautiful illustrations. This goes through not only the illustrations in the books but also the thumbnails sketches, details on the Runes and designs of the One Ring, the Gates of Moria and so on. It is a must have to see what went behind some of the most iconic imagery that has been drawn from for decades since. There are also some especially interesting tidbits of design that went into Mordor that never even made it into the books visually but were very obviously the inspiration for the films.Froud, Brian; Lee, Alan (1979). David Larkin (ed.). Faeries. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. ISBN 9780553346343.

In 2000, he won the competitive, juried Spectrum Award for fantastic art in the grandmaster category. [18] MacLeod, Jeffrey J.; Smol, Anna (2017). "Visualizing the Word: Tolkien as Artist and Writer". Tolkien Studies. 14 (1): 115–131. doi: 10.1353/tks.2017.0009. S2CID 171923300. MacLeod, Jeffrey J.; Smol, Anna (2008). "A Single Leaf: Tolkien's Visual Art and Fantasy". Mythlore. 27 (1). article 10. The Lord of the Rings, despite Tolkien's best efforts, appeared with only one illustration other than its maps and calligraphy. This was The Doors of Durin, in the first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring, in 1954. [1] [T 6] bw): Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm F. Brown, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason / (c): Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir, Walter M. Scott, Paul S. FoxThe Annotated Hobbit · The History of The Hobbit · The Nature of Middle-earth · The Fall of Númenor