How Do You Envision Middle-Earth?

[Bill Ferny]

propagandalf, nice fan-art. The Grey Havens reminds me of Arda creation illustrations, though, but I think you portray with the swirling mists the passage from Middle-Earth to the separated realm of the Undying Lands very well. Keep up the creativity! I’m hoping to see more fan-art on this thread [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img].

As far as the movie Gollum goes, I was most impressed with the voice acting. Every sense I first read the books I’ve always tried to emulate Gollum’s voice the way I imagined it, but I was never satisfied with my feeble attempts. I really liked Gollum’s voice in the animated movie The Hobbit, but I think PJ and the actor (don’t know his name), did an absolutely wonderful job!

Though PJ’s ents brings to mind a Pandora’s Box of opinions that do not belong on this thread, I will give him this much… visually his ents are the best ent illustrations I have ever seen from any Tolkien artist.

thunder-goddess, sting is the only weapon in the movie with which I was satisfied. The look of sting captured something of its ancient origins, mainly due to its blade design being so different from other weapons seen on other characters. It resembled, from a more historical bent, a Roman gladius circa. Julius Ceasar. For example, compare the movie sting to these Roman blades (complements the skilled hands at Albion weapons works):





It also is remensent of Celtic leaf shaped blade designs. Thursting an ancient sword design into the movie alongside more traditional medieval looking weapons is a good example of WETA’s genius.