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Tolkien's Desk
Published: 2012-10-26 04:36:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 32555; Favourites: 2173; Downloads: 674
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PRINT NOW AVAILABLE AT MY INPRINT STORE: www.inprnt.com/gallery/89raven…Earlier this month, I was commissioned to complete this piece as course art for Dr. Verlyn Flieger's upcoming Tolkien class through the Mythgard Institute.
The idea behind the piece for to show Tolkien in the progress of writing his famous works, while highlighting the course material (The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings).
I finished this painting awhile ago, but since the course information is now online, I feel safe posting it.
Progression on Tumblr: 89ravenclaw.tumblr.com/post/34…
UPDATE: Whaaaat?! A DD? That's never happened before (took me awhile to figure out why I suddenly had 600+ feedback messages waiting for me). Thanks everone who liked this.
If any of you are interested in the Mythgard course this was commissioned for, click here: shop.signumuniversity.org/prod…
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Comments: 221
ah, i see. well, that's a given
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Great art! So many details! I love your work!
Congratulations on the DD!
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Great art! Everything just neat, correct and perfect! Then you just made it like he put all he saw into the papers! Great storytelling! Not to mention any other skills. just perfect! JUST PERFECT! Really one of greatest!
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Incredible work!!!! Love how you drew his hand and the dragon, the handwritting...everything about it!
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thanks, though the handwritting is literally just a font of one Tolkien's handwriting styles
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Incredibly well done, the perspective is perfect! I just realized this is digital... magnificent work, even more so!
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Ah very nice! My buddy just showed me a tumblr with some cool pencil tests on it. I think it's yours, yea? It links to this dA page and I must say you've got some nice work! I'm an animator too, so it's always nice to stumble upon other animation folks here.
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well that animation blog doesn't have any of my work, it's a collection of professional work that i find on the internet
my animation stuff is all 3d, so no pencil tests from me personally
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Oh yea, I knew the pencil tests were from otehr placese, I meant the tumblr was yours. But yea, you've got nice 2D stuff here on dA.
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you'd be surprised how many people think i've done the work on there despite it being from a bajillion different artists
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One of the best Tolkien/Tolkien's creations related piece I've ever seen
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Aww, baby Smaug with the Ring in his tail is cute.
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Whoa, this is an awesome concept/piece of art. I absolutely love it.
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It's brilliant! Do the Elvish letters say something?
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Yup, all the text are from scans of actual pages he wrote, so one is the inscription under his Mines of Moria gate drawing and the other is a page from Two Towers I think (I can't actually remember, this was a while ago).
The only text that isn't from a scan is the Silmarillion quote I have him writing.
All the drawings are his too except for the main image of the Silmirls, but all I did there was trace over the really blurry small picture we have of his own drawing of that, because there was no way that thing was going to look drawn at this scale.
As for the text on the ring, that's accurate too, though I had to hand draw that rather than use a font
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I have the 40 winks sleeping dragon im about to put him on my desk now!
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dargons: always excellent desk companions
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awesomeness! I love this idea and I also love the Mythgard Institute. Great job!
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What can I say, other than absolutely incredible work? I am totally bowled over. 
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awww, thanks.
I often wonder how much Tolkien is rolling in his grave every time I make an executive decisions as an artist involving his work
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Oh, I'm sure you're doing just fine.
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This is appropiate like for a book cover. it's really awesome
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