I can't paint or draw well, but I do love to create textile art. Here's my "Tree and Leaf", inspired by Tolkien's short works "Smith of Wootton Major" and "Leaf by Niggle". It's an appliqued collage of commercial fabrics (with a photo print of Tolkien on both objects), overlayed with a sheer fabric to represent the fragile, slightly askew relationship between Faerie and the real world.
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth..
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