I did 106, and then another 53 at the last minute, almost all in pencil with white acrylic highlights, a few painted in full colour.
Starting with just the landscapes from the first 106 arranged as the completed puzzle: the scenes follow the story too in a clockwise spiral: Bag-end, Rivendell, Moria, Lorien, Rohan, Isengard, Gondor, Mordor, and finally in the centre the Grey Havens.
Topps LotR ‘Masterpieces II’ sketch cards by Soni Alcorn-Hender
If you have any of these, leave a comment and let me know. I’d love to find out where they ended up. :)
‘How about very old friends?’
The town of Bree
‘To Rivendell, Master Gamgee.’
The House of Elrond
‘Bring forth the Ring, Frodo’
Light in the dark
‘…wielder of the Flame of Anor!’
‘Namárië.’
‘The Pillars of the Kings!’
Frodo’s decision
‘You just said something… treeish!’
The Hall of Meduseld
‘There is nothing for you here, only death.’
‘Leithio i philinn!’
‘Who enters my domain?’
‘Gandalf! Gandalf?’
Éowyn decapitates the Fellbeast.
‘I am no man’
In the Houses of Healing
‘You and I have both passed under the wings of the Shadow..’
‘I do not believe this darkness will endure.’
‘I can’t carry it for you…’
A long-awaited reunion.
Second Age: Elrond
‘No visitors, well-wishers, or distant relations!’
‘We will shelter here tonight…’
‘This is no mine…’
‘Farewell, dear Bilbo’
‘Realm of the Lord Celeborn…’
Meduseld
‘Why do you lay these troubles on an already troubled mind..’
Isengard smokes and steams
‘He cant hold his liquor!’
The last journey of Arwen Úndomiel
‘City of Kings.’
‘Perhaps you’ve come to tell me why my son is dead..’
‘The dead do not suffer the living to pass.’
The Host rides to the Black Land
The White ship into the West.
‘…he’s known as Strider’
‘…forsaking the immortal life of your people’
‘Summon every able-bodied man to Dunharrow’
‘Courage, Merry.’
‘Eowyn!’
..He is burning. Already burning!’
Arwen, Evenstar of her people
‘Like a morning of pale Spring…’
Parting gifts
‘Your son is badly wounded, my lord..’
‘Everywhere his spies slip past our nets..’
‘These are no soldiers.’
‘Oops’
Bilbo’s 111th Birthday
Weathertop
‘I am ready to go home.’
‘You said you would bind yourself to me…
The Gates of Moria
‘You cannot pass..!’
‘..Flame of Udûn!’
Farewell to Lorien
‘Will you look?’
Twilight of Rivendell
‘Our people are leaving these shores..’
Minas Morgul
Signal of Mordor
The lighting of the beacon
The Dimholt Door
‘I summon you to fulfil your oath!’
(Aragorn): ‘Fight for me and I will hold your oaths fulfilled! What say you?!’ ‘…We fight.’
The black-sailed ships
‘GROND!’
‘Let him go, you filth!’
‘He’s burning Faramir alive!’
The Eye of Mordor
Bohemian Weasel 