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Wight of the Old Forest
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Unattended on the railway station, in the litter at the dancehall
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Wonderful thread, Esty, and interesting posts so far on the other one, everybody! Unfortunately I've got to admit I've never read the Father Christmas Letters, only seen the pictures reproduced in JRRT: Artist & Illustrator, so I'm limited to commenting on these and any additional pics you may post.
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![]() What I love in these pictures is the clarity of a few luminous colours offset by the white of snow/paper and black ink - creates a very wintery, frosty-clear atmosphere which fits the arctic setting very well. By the way, some of the elements in these pictures resurface from earlier drawings by Tolkien. Hammond & Scull point out that something very like the inverted icicles/minor north poles* can be seen on the 1915 watercolour Tanaqui - it seems he just liked the shape, and it certainly adds something mysterious to a landscape. FC's round house, on the other hand, looks very similar to the building on an untitled pencil drawing from 1914. __________________________________________________ _ *immanent explanation for these: the Earth's axis shifts through Earth history, doesn't it?, and so does the North Pole. Maybe these are past and future North Poles, some eroded and some not yet grown to full height. ![]()
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Und aus dem Erebos kamen viele seelen herauf der abgeschiedenen toten.- Homer, Odyssey, Canto XI |
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