….that I painted a scene like this once, I know Niggle would have been involved somewhere along the line 😉
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Old Man Willow
I sat down to do a serious, detailed study of Old Man Willow (as seen in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings (just in case anyone was wondering)). So I’m unsure how I ended up doing this 😉 Tired of rescuing pesky Hobbits from the clutches of Old Man Willow, Tom Bombadil decided to put up a sign warning those approaching of the dangers. “If that doesn’t work, I’ll hack the darned thing down.” He muttered to himself walking away from the newly erected sign.
Read MoreLost in Middle Earth
It took a while, but eventually Alatar realized that Pallando had brought the wrong map, and so the two Blue Wizards were never heard of in Middle Earth again….
Read MoreStill escaping….
I wasn’t all that happy with the illustration of Bilbo escaping to the eyrie I completed the other day. So I decided to try a digital version, this time I worked in a couple of my photographs for the misty trees, slapped some hills in the background and of course repainted the flying eagle/dwarf/hobbit combo 😉
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A first attempt at Bilbo escaping to the eyrie.
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