I'm glad you "took" to the Pippin illustration so well, Aredhel! Heh heh...Couldn't help myself! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] And davem, thanks ever so much for that link! I could stare at those pictures for hours! As Saucepan Man said, very reminiscent of medieval style art, even down to the flattening of faces and lack of perspective in some cases. (In others, though, perspective (i.e. depth) is there...odd thing, really, but very nice effects!) I also like your suggestion, Saucepan Man, that it could be an illustration from the Fourth Age commemorating the events of the War of the Ring!
I wonder if there are larger versions of these artworks that can be studied more closely...I notice lots of writing on Samwise's shield and all I can make out is "Mordor," but, alas, I do not have sufficient time to devote to it to do it justice...I do appreciate the glimpse though!
I've nothing more to add right at the moment, but, keeping on my eternal quest for Pippin art, does anyone know if there is a piece of art anywhere that visualizes Pippin's notion as he rode to Minas Tirith that he and Gandalf were still as stone on Shadowfax's back, while the world moves by at great speed...the exact quote used to be my signature until I got so overly tickled by Fëanor, the Exploding Elf! It is a vivid mind image that makes me wish I could draw or paint, so I could get it out of my mind and onto my wall!
'Til later, all the best!
Cheers,
Lyta
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