Book A Middle-Earth Traveller: Sketches From bag end to Mordor John Howe

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Let acclaimed Tolkien artist John Howe take you on an unforgettable journey across Middle-earth, from Bag End to Mordor, in this richly illustrated sketchbook fully of previously unseen artwork, anecdotes and meditations on Middle-earth.Middle-earth has been mapped, Bilbo’s and Frodo’s journeys plotted and measured, but it remains a wilderland for all that. The roads as yet untravelled far outnumber those down which J.R.R. Tolkien led us in his writings.A Middle-earth Traveller presents a walking tour of Tolkien’s Middle-earth, visiting not only places central to his stories, but also those just over the hill or beyond the horizon. Events from Tolkien’s books are explored – battles of the different ages that are almost legend by the time of The Lord of the Rings; lost kingdoms and ancient myths, as well as those places only hinted at: kingdoms of the far North and lands beyond the seas.Sketches that have an ‘on-the-spot’ feel to them are interwoven with the artist’s observations gleaned from Tolkien’s books as he paints pictures with his words as well as his pencil. He also recollects his time spent working alongside Peter Jackson on the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit film trilogies. Combining concept work produced for films, existing Middle-earth art and dozens of new paintings and sketches exclusive to this book, A Middle-earth Traveller will take the reader on a unique and unforgettable journey across Tolkien’s magical landscape.

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Es uno de los ilustradores principales y más reconocidos de la obra de Tolkien. Ha participado en la realización de los populares calendarios de Tolkien y diseñado numerosos productos relacionados con éste. Su trabajo también se ha aprovechado para los pósters en conmemoración del cincuenta aniversario de la publicación de El Hobbit y para los del centenario del nacimiento de Tolkien, así como para las sobrecubiertas de las últimas ediciones de El Hobbit, El Señor de los Anillos y El Silmarillion. Howe ha colaborado asimismo en el diseño artístico de la adaptación cinematográfica de la trilogía.

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