Visit The *EVEN NEWER* Barrow-Downs Photo Page |
05-20-2012, 01:07 AM | #1 |
Illustrious Ulair
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: In the home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names,and impossible loyalties
Posts: 4,240
|
Frank Frazetta's Lord of the Rings illustrations.
Weird, maybe, but interesting to see the Conan artist's vision of Middle-earth http://io9.com/5911710/frank-frazett...o-middle-earth
|
05-20-2012, 03:31 AM | #2 |
Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
Posts: 9,455
|
Can't help wondering about his conception of the Rohirrim if that is Eowyn disguised as a man
__________________
“But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.”
Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace |
05-20-2012, 07:58 AM | #3 |
Gruesome Spectre
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Heaven's doorstep
Posts: 8,036
|
Why does Gollum look like Tor Johnson with Yoda's ears?
__________________
Music alone proves the existence of God. |
05-20-2012, 08:09 AM | #4 |
Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
Posts: 10,369
|
Gandalf looks more like a goblin than a goblin does.
__________________
You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera |
05-20-2012, 09:37 AM | #5 |
Curmudgeonly Wordwraith
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Ensconced in curmudgeonly pursuits
Posts: 2,508
|
He gave Eowyn some nice...ummm...attributes.
__________________
And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision. |
05-20-2012, 11:52 AM | #6 |
Cryptic Aura
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 5,996
|
Rather funny how he gave Conan-like muscles to the orcs.
And I do believe that he thought of Eowyn's armour as "femail."
__________________
I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away. |
05-20-2012, 12:13 PM | #7 |
Blossom of Dwimordene
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: The realm of forgotten words
Posts: 10,369
|
Oh my!
__________________
You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera |
05-20-2012, 04:29 PM | #8 |
Shade of Carn Dűm
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 435
|
At least he's consistent. Back when I was younger, I had a 4 volume illustrated set of Jack Vance's Tschai series; I think this guy did one or more volumes of that The figures certainly look vaugely familiar (there is something very Chasch-like about his orcs and, with a few extra clothes, Zap210 could be Eowyn's body double).
|
05-20-2012, 04:46 PM | #9 |
Dread Horseman
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Behind you!
Posts: 2,743
|
Ha, the Witch-king must have scared the pants off of Éowyn!
Par for the course for Frazetta, who was a fan of bare bottoms on his male and female figures both. I'm surprised there isn't one of a muscular Aragorn in a breechclout and winged helm atop a pile of dead and dying orcs. I'm a fan -- not many fantasy artists can match Frazetta for dynamic scenes and the evocation of a certain (admittedly narrow) kind of tone. His imagery all but visually defined sword-and-sorcery/sword-and-planet fiction. But he was a specialist. In some alternate reality, Frazetta ran a legendary custom van-painting shop in Venice Beach. |
05-21-2012, 06:52 AM | #10 |
A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: under the bed
Posts: 4,737
|
Some of the pictures in the old Tolkien Bestiary weren't far off this.
The Hobbits are totally off of course, though one looks a bit like a Jawa which is funny. I really do like the Witch King though, and there's no reason why Gandalf shouldn't look a bit like Roy Wood with farmer arms. I'd imagine Gandalf was a bit sinewy anyway.
__________________
Gordon's alive!
|
05-21-2012, 08:27 AM | #11 | |
Curmudgeonly Wordwraith
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Ensconced in curmudgeonly pursuits
Posts: 2,508
|
Quote:
__________________
And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision. |
|
05-22-2012, 03:22 PM | #12 |
A Mere Boggart
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: under the bed
Posts: 4,737
|
Spend Christmas in the UK and Roy Wood is ubiquitous!
__________________
Gordon's alive!
|
06-18-2012, 06:05 AM | #13 |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Lonely Isle
Posts: 706
|
Roy Wood
I have to agree with Lalwendë here! When Christmas draws near in the UK, this song is played, played, and played...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoxQ4Ul_DME |
|
|