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The Old Forest

” ‘They do not like all that about ending and failing,’ said Merry. ‘I should not sing any more at present. Wait till we get to the edge, and then we’ll turn and give them a rousing chorus!’ ”
—The Old Forest, Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien.

– I just learned that this will be the cover of the Tolkien Society’s annual publication: the ‘Mallorn’! :)

The first in a series of landscapes inspired by both Britain and Middle-earth – this one based on the forest of Padley Gorge in Derbyshire. Though I think the trees there are less likely to eat you.

Acrylics, pencil, pastel, gouache, tea, cat hair, and the withered deathless malicious and malignant soul of a really evil tree – on paper (also made from trees, maybe evil), and then some digital colouring and fannying about.
A3 / 12×17 inches
Prints available here.

Work in progress and details:

Old Forest, work in progress 1

Old Forest, work in progress 2

Old Forest, work in progress 3

Old Forest, detail: Tree faces

Old Forest, detail: Merry and Frodo

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by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Tuesday 21, November, 2017 • Permalink

Posted in ALL ARTWORK, LotR & Hobbit

Tagged art LANDSCAPE, art SCENE, land ENGLAND, land TREES, Tolkien BOOK-INSPIRED ILLUSTRATIONS, Tolkien LOTR BOOKS, Tolkien m-e LANDSCAPES, Tolkien m-e LANDSCAPES OF MIDDLE-EARTH & BRITAIN, Tolkien races HOBBITS

Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Tuesday 21, November, 2017

https://bohemianweasel.com/2017/11/21/the-old-forest/

Gandalf & Frodo

‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo.
‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.’

From The Fellowship of the Ring (chapter ‘Shadow of the Past’) by JRR Tolkien.

The famous words of comfort and wisdom spoken by Gandalf to Frodo (book version).
Pencil and acrylics on painted paper, 21×30 cms.

Gandalf and Frodo, work in progress

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by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Tuesday 24, January, 2017 • Permalink

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Posted by Soni Alcorn-Hender on Tuesday 24, January, 2017

https://bohemianweasel.com/2017/01/24/gandalf-frodo/

Hobbits in… Cumbria?

A Cumbrian landscape (Buttermere) becomes a scene from Lord of the Rings: Strider leading the Hobbits from the Midgewater Marshes to the Weather Hills (where Frodo will have an unfortunate encounter with a Wraith). But for now, the Hobbits greatest concern is getting that ‘fool of a Took’ across the stream without him bathing in it (and pulling poor Merry in after). Frodo intends to help, as soon as he can stop laughing.
Strider and Sam (with Bill the pony) are ahead.

Acrylics and pencils on hot-press pastel paper, 21×29 cms

Prints and pretty things available on RedBubble here.

Midgewater Marshes to the Weather Hills

Shire Bridge

Prints and things available here.

I painted the original a couple of years ago: an idea of Frodo and Sam enjoying one of the Shire’s little rivers’, perhaps at the beginning of their journey when everything still felt enjoyably adventurous in a very safe way. I liked the parallel between these two by the river, and the earlier pair of Sméagol and Déagol, and how their river trip ended. And both of those pairs of friends are bound by the same ring.

This is a re-working made for the Tolkien art show ‘Evil in the Shining Light’, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, through September 2015.
Original was acrylics on paper, 10 x 7.5″ Frame element by Stephen Clulow on Flickr.