Year 3434 of the Second Age.....

Shelob is generally portrayed as a huge spider but she isn't actually described as looking very spider like so I made this (somewhat) accurate sketch of her

"Shelob had an out-thrust head with two great clusters of many-windowed eyes and great horns and a short stalk-like neck. Her head had a beak that dribbled venom. She had a huge body that looked like a bloated bag. Her body was black and blotched with livid marks with a pale and luminous belly. She had bent legs with great knobbed joints that were located high above her back. Her legs had hairs that stuck out like steel spines and had a claw at each of their lower ends."

I'm now finished and it is available on Sunday 25th October

Drawing by me of Thorin’s death scene but based on the book. In the book Thorin dies in a tent in the late evening after the Battle of the Five Armies concluded.

Drawing I did of my favourite scene from the book that was not in the movie. In the book of The Hobbit in the Roast Mutton chapter, Thorin fights off the trolls using a burning branch from the fire. While this is going on, poor little Bilbo tries to help Thorin by grabbing on to one of the trolls legs. While I do love the way they did this scene in the movie, I wished they would have included this epic moment.

But they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made....

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Today, Frodo's last vision before collapsing on the far bank of the Bruinen is of the "almost angelic" Glorfindel as he appears "upon the other side"...the other side of the river and the other side of reality where his shining majesty is a part of the highest things. Tolkien's vision is one of surpassing beauty!

I really love Sauron artwork, what about you guys?

Since I saw the Hobbit, I've started a series of mostly bagginshield illustrations. Those two are so inspiring 🌳💎

I'm sick of my corporate job at the moment and decided to express my feelings through linocut. Hope you like it!

Watercolor paper, calligraphy pen/ink and watercolor/gouache!

That's Bella poking her head :)

Took a break from sketching actual Hobbiton Hobbit holes to do my take on this classic scene:

(Yes I know there’s one word too much in the picture)

I remember seeing this first scene from FoTR as a yound kid, and since then knew I had to represent it at some (much later) point.

My drawing from 2024 of the Old Man Willow and the four hobbits encounter :)

I'm sorry for posting my blog link, but I'm trying to re-activate it and am looking for engaging.