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Glorfindel

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My hero! Huzzah!

My hero! Huzzah!

Glorfindel, my hero! I was really happy with this picture when I drew it, and I’m really happy with it still. I adore the passage where Tolkien describes him:

“Glorfindel was tall and straight; his hair was of shining gold; his face fair and young and fearless and full of joy; his eyes were bright and keen, and his voice like music; on his brow sat wisdom, and in his hand was strength.”

It’s so inspiring. Tolkien really liked Glorfindel, I think. I’m glad he didn’t show up in the movie, because he wouldn’t have been good. Actually, he was in the movie, but without speaking lines. He was some tall, white-haired guy with a milky, pasty face and he looked really wierd. I don’t look at that guy ever, since he’s all wrong. Legolas would have been perfect, but then he was perfect as Legolas, too, so I suppose Legolas is more important to the story so that’s okay. I just imagine the same person, tiny bit taller, a bit glowy with some sort of divine light, lachend eyes, and different clothes.

Legolas

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I wish he laughed and sang more (in the movie)

I wish he laughed and sang more (in the movie)

The first successful picture of Legolas I have ever drawn! I pronounce his name a bit differently… My first version had short black hair, but he was still pretty handsome. I especially remember the part where he sings the song of Nimrodel. He also laughs a lot more in the book, and is generally more cheerful. My favourite lines…
“Then are we not to meet the merry young hobbits?”
“You speak for me, Gimli, though I’d sooner learn how they came by the wine!”
“Come! The mists are blowing away, or would if you strange folk did not wreathe yourselves in smoke…”

Ahaha. He’s funny. Tolkien’s book is very funny, though maybe most people wouldn’t think so. I do. ^_^7
One thing I don’t have against the movie is that their version is a thousand times more elfish, elvish, and beautiful than my version. I wish they’d kept it at wielding only one knife, though. Whenever he uses just one I feel better.

Gimli

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A dwarf with a BLACK curly beard

A dwarf with a BLACK curly beard

Gimli was drawn on the same page as Boromir, but there’s a lot of space between them for even more people I never got around to doing.

I think this Gimli looks terrific. I’m very pleased with him. I based him on a very, very clear picture I have of him singing the wonderful song in Moria. Odd. The axe looks the same…

Gandalf and Galadriel (and Aragorn)

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Only one person here is a complete figure

Only one person here is a complete figure

These funny looking people are these: a faily good Gandalf, an erased Aragorn, Aragorn’s eyes, eyebrows, and nose, and Galadriel lacking a face. Gandalf was the first drawn, and drawn a bit further back than Aragorn, who was “drawn” lots further back than Galadriel, whom I never finished because she looked so good that if I added a face it would spoil it.

After muffing Aragorn, I put a note underneath saying (I had just watched Star Wars Ep. I, my first movie on bigscreen) “Like Qui-gon Jinn without beard”. I guess Viggo Mortensen is pretty good, but I didn’t really think he is really as good as the Aragorn in my head who won’t come out.

(Pippin) in Gondor

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Generic Gondor soldier

Generic preteen Gondor soldier

Next we have a hobbit with boots: I forgot they don’t wear them. It’s Pippin, in Gondor. But since I had boots on him I crossed that out and wrote Soldier of Gondor underneath. Nice helmet, neh? This is the last of the hobbits, since I don’t remember my original versions of the others.

Arwen

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Noble-maiden

Noble-maiden

This is Arwen, whom I still believe to be more lovely than Liv Tyler. I saw some wierd pictures of Arwen on Rolozo Tolkien.net, a website of official (or not) Tolkien fan-art, so I said: this can’t be right. None of those Arwens are remotely beautiful enough. Well, mine mightn’t be either, but I think it’s better.

First Bilbo

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Uh... a very hairy hobbit. Needs a shave.

Uh… a very hairy hobbit. Needs a shave.

This odd picture is my memory of my very first vision of Bilbo in The Hobbit. He was a hairy little monkey-like creature with cargo shorts and a green cloak. I guess I took Tolkien’s direction that hobbits had lots of hair on their toes a little too seriously.

Pit of Moria

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The long and the short of it: a Balrog and a Wizard

The long and the short of it: a Balrog and a Wizard

This is a Balrog. Shadow and Flame: this is one of my coolest pictures so far. The Balrog is just perfect. And, you know, I hadn’t seen the movie yet. I wasn’t planning to. I was planning not to. Ever. So, what do you think? Is this just like the movie, or what?

I guess movie makers can sometimes get things right. ^_^7