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J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator is a collection of paintings (mostly watercolour) and drawings by J. R. R. Tolkien for his stories, published posthumously in 1995. The book was edited by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull. It won the 1996 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies.
J. R. R. Tolkien accompanied his Middle-earth fantasy writings with a wide variety of non-narrative materials, including paintings and drawings, calligraphy, and maps.In his lifetime, some of his artworks were included in his novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings; others were used on the covers of different editions of these books, and later on the cover of The Silmarillion.
A professional philologist, J. R. R. Tolkien prepared a wide variety of materials to support his fiction, including illustrations for his Middle-earth fantasy books, facsimile artefacts, more or less "picturesque" maps, calligraphy, and sketches and paintings from life. Some of his artworks combined several of these elements.
Ted Nasmith (born 1956) is a Canadian artist, illustrator and architectural renderer. He is best known as an illustrator of J. R. R. Tolkien's works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. [1] Tolkien praised and commented on his early work, something that encouraged him in his career.
Other artists who have found inspiration in Tolkien's works include Inger Edelfeldt who illustrated the covers of Swedish translations of several of his books, [12] Anke Eißmann, [13] Michael Hague, [14] Tove Jansson (of Moomin fame, illustrator of Swedish and Finnish translations of The Hobbit), [7] Paul Raymond Gregory, [15] Tim Kirk, [16 ...
Mary Fairburn (born 13 June 1933) is an English artist and musician, best known for her illustrations for The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien, which in 1968 were seen and admired by the author. [1] Her illustrations, unknown until 2012, were published as a body by HarperCollins in the Official Tolkien Calendar 2015. [2]
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892 in South Africa and raised in England. He graduated from Oxford, served in World War I and went on to become a professor at his alma mater.
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