Joel Merriner

Thank you Miriam, all going well! 😀

Wow, thank you so much for that, that's lovely to hear! I feel very privileged to be able to tell these guy's stories and bring their work to a new audience 😀

Thanks Brian! Really hope you enjoy it, and I make no promises that it won't spark further purchases...🤪😉

Such a lovely painting!

Thanks to everyone for celebrating #Tolkien #HobbitMonth with me! This was fun and I enjoyed your lovely comments each day.

If you enjoyed my paintings, perhaps you'd like to add my book to your honored Tolkien shelves. Happy Hobbit Month, my friends, and keep sharing the good lore!

If you've just followed me, or have been tracking my #Tolkien art adventures for a while, I'd like to thank you all! Keep checking back regularly if you want art historical chat, punk orc sketches, book talk and classic pics like this: Angus McBride's Denizens of the Dark Wood MERP cover (1989) 💀

Wow, thank you! I hope you both enjoy it! 😀

I like it!

Elrond's just heard "last orders" at the bar. Bilbo's just relieved he isn't dead 😅

Nicholas Bayrachny created some evocative imagery for the 1996 Belarusian #Hobbit translation. Here's four great examples: blond, bearded Elrond ponders the moon letters, Brezhnev-eyebrowed Smaug loses his cool, Bard, Gandalf and Thranduil keep the Arkenstone, little Bilbo post-battle #Tolkien

Thanks for the mention Marcel! 😁

Thanks! It will be released in paperback in the not too distant future also 😁

Thanks Jeremy, hope you enjoy it! 😁

Thank you!

Could be!

Excellent, and really fitting considering how the earliest Soviet Russian translation was presented as a sci-fi tale complete with added scientists and engineers! Translator Zinaida Bobyr' had already reimagined several of Clarke's earlier works for a Soviet audience, so was familiar with him.

My book Illustrating The Lord of the Rings in the Soviet Bloc is released into the wild today! Here's a quick peek at a few more pages, artwork here by Győző Vida, Yassen Panov, Alexander Korotich and Sergei Iukhimov #Tolkien www.bloomsbury.com/uk/illustrat...

Yes, that's a bit much don't you think? 🐺

"Are there no leeches among you?" Imrahil spots that Éowyn isn't dead, as embarrassed Rohirrim look on. No, sorry this is Valkyrie's Death (1880) by Norwegian historical/mythological painter Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831-1892). Note late-to-the-battle Radagast pinching back his brown cloak 😆 #Tolkien

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Very cool indeed! 😀

Today's doodle drawn whilst engaged in a L-O-N-G and convoluted phone call to HMRC...Misty Mountains Goblin Spear-Lad Chanter of the Severed Hand-Stump Clan, complete with tax code top right 🤪💀 #Tolkien

Absolutely!

It's a good one!

It's #TolkienTrewsday Pirates! Here's a whole gang of them being overrun by the advancing Dead in Alexander Korotich's c. 1985 scraperboard pic The Corsairs. Drawn on the back of chopped up Politburo propaganda posters his work is a revelation and you can read more about it in my book #Tolkien

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Spot the Eye! 😉

Yes indeed, it never fails to amaze me quite how tall some of these elves are supposed to be! 😆

That was most excellent Miriam, thanks for sharing! Love the sketch of relative sizes for characters btw, paticularly the towering fellow on the right 😁

Ah, not sure about signed copies, will have to look into that 🤔 😁