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user-inactivated  ·  3562 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, what's your favorite piece of art?




rob05c  ·  3562 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Reminds me, Tolkien did his own art for his book covers, but it was scarcely published.

Shame. I like when illustrations are by the author. It feels like a better window through their eyes.

user-inactivated  ·  3562 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Indeed, and some of it was on special display at the Bodleian in Oxford a couple summers ago, which was probably the best moment of my entire life.

I took secret pictures from under my jacket.

EDIT: I think my favorite cover of Sil is one of the landscapes:

http://home.agh.edu.pl/~evermind/images/TN-Silmarillion_cover_2004.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TwF6F_SPijY/UW4acCWS-mI/AAAAAAAAFXE/Mc5tLt1Bdqs/s1600/the+silmarillion%281%29.gif

but most of all

because I like to believe it shows Cuivienen, though it's more likely the Western Sea.