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Morthoron · 01-06-2012, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Lalwendë

The Baleful Head, or is it The Mirror Of Galadriel?

Ah, the hyphenated Pre-Raphealite painter whose name always escapes me! I just came across his "Beguiling of Merlin" as I was researching something completely different.

Lalwendë · 01-08-2012, 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Morthoron

Ah, the hyphenated Pre-Raphealite painter whose name always escapes me! I just came across his "Beguiling of Merlin" as I was researching something completely different.

Burne-Jones! I was naughty not to credit these artworks

The other one is by Samuel Palmer.

I'd like to think that The Baleful Head is one of the paintings that actually did influence Tolkien as he was quite a fan of the pre-Raphaelites and used to go to Birmingham art gallery quite a lot (where they have a good collection), but looking it up, this one is displayed in a gallery in Stuttgart, and I doubt it would have been sold by Birmingham art gallery since Tolkien's youth (most public art collections are held in trust).

Legate of Amon Lanc · 09-10-2012, 03:21 PM

Nicholas Roerich (1930) - Totally Vale of Erech.

And the same artist, maybe a bit metaphorically...

"A sign that Gandalf was here on October the third: that is three days ago now. Not alone: Shadowfax was with him..."

MCRmyGirl4eva · 09-10-2012, 04:12 PM

Starry night by van gogh (sp?)? hahahahahaha!

William Cloud Hicklin · 09-11-2012, 10:38 PM

Not visual, but musical: the soundtrack to the passage through Moria was written by Rachmaninoff, his Prelude in G Minor op. 23 no. 5:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...v=CpdoYLMgVfM#!

Galadriel55 · 09-12-2012, 05:31 AM

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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

Not visual, but musical: the soundtrack to the passage through Moria was written by Rachmaninoff, his Prelude in G Minor op. 23 no. 5:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...v=CpdoYLMgVfM#!

Pssssssst..... Tolkienish music goes here.

Pitchwife · 07-18-2017, 02:49 PM

I just came across this while browsing some old threads and was delighted by Legate bringing up Nicholas Roerich above, since I had just discovered and fallen in love with Roerich's art at the time I started this thread. For a while I had several of his paintings rotating as wallpapers on my computer, and many of them have struck me as rather Tolkienish, such as this:

Bogatyrs Woke Up, or The Awakening of the Dwarves?
(Yes I know, they didn't all wake up in the same place, did they, but this just screams DWARVES! to me.)

or this:

Boris and Gleb, aka Alatar and Pallando?
(Cloaks are the wrong colour, but hey, there's enough blue in the picture.)

Others remind me of Tolkien in more subtle ways, more in their technique than their subject matter. One thing I really love about Roerich's art is his way of painting clear light and luminous colours, which IMHO is rivalled by few painters if any, and for me this resonates somewhat obliquely but very strongly with Tolkien's myth of the Two Trees and of a light that is older and holier than that which we perceive in these later ages. It can be guessed in the pictures Legate linked, but it's most obvious in his Himalaya landscapes or a work like this:

(Terra Slavonica, 1943)

09-10-2012, 03:21 PM	#3
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	Nicholas Roerich (1930) - Totally Vale of Erech. And the same artist, maybe a bit metaphorically... "A sign that Gandalf was here on October the third: that is three days ago now. Not alone: Shadowfax was with him..." __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories

09-10-2012, 04:12 PM	#4
MCRmyGirl4eva Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: The Elvenking's Halls Posts: 425	Starry night by van gogh (sp?)? hahahahahaha! __________________ "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit..." "'Well, I'm back.' said Sam."

09-11-2012, 10:38 PM	#5
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	Not visual, but musical: the soundtrack to the passage through Moria was written by Rachmaninoff, his Prelude in G Minor op. 23 no. 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...v=CpdoYLMgVfM#! __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.

07-18-2017, 02:49 PM	#7
Pitchwife Wight of the Old Forest Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Unattended on the railway station, in the litter at the dancehall Posts: 3,329	I just came across this while browsing some old threads and was delighted by Legate bringing up Nicholas Roerich above, since I had just discovered and fallen in love with Roerich's art at the time I started this thread. For a while I had several of his paintings rotating as wallpapers on my computer, and many of them have struck me as rather Tolkienish, such as this: Bogatyrs Woke Up, or The Awakening of the Dwarves? (Yes I know, they didn't all wake up in the same place, did they, but this just screams DWARVES! to me.) or this: Boris and Gleb, aka Alatar and Pallando? (Cloaks are the wrong colour, but hey, there's enough blue in the picture.) Others remind me of Tolkien in more subtle ways, more in their technique than their subject matter. One thing I really love about Roerich's art is his way of painting clear light and luminous colours, which IMHO is rivalled by few painters if any, and for me this resonates somewhat obliquely but very strongly with Tolkien's myth of the Two Trees and of a light that is older and holier than that which we perceive in these later ages. It can be guessed in the pictures Legate linked, but it's most obvious in his Himalaya landscapes or a work like this: (Terra Slavonica, 1943) __________________ Und aus dem Erebos kamen viele seelen herauf der abgeschiedenen toten.- Homer, Odyssey, Canto XI