Artist's Inquiry

Nibs · 03-08-2002, 01:43 AM

I have the opportunity to draw some Middle-Earth scenes to be engraved by laser into a piece of wood... they're pretty cool, if you've ever seen them. For now, I'm tracing some pictures for this guy that engraves them, but once I'm finished with that I can do any I wish. I've already decided on a few titles and scenes from Middle-Earth that I love:

"Bard's Black Arrow" - where Bard is about to fell Smaug

"Aure Entuluva!" - Hurin's final battle; day shall come again

"The Fall of Fingolfin" - Fingolfin challenges Melkor

I already have what I'd like them to look like and such, but I want to do more. Any suggestions? I'd like to do one with Gandalf, but I haven't thought of anything I'm content with yet.

olsonm · 03-08-2002, 01:52 AM

How about Gandalf finding Thrain in the dungeons of Dol Guldur.

Eruviel Greenleaf · 03-08-2002, 02:12 AM

Or Gandalf in front of the Balrog, "You shall not pass!" of Gandalf in front of the Moria gate. . .
Or the White Rider. . .
er, I haven't read The Hobbit yet.
But, the wood engravings sound really cool!

Arathorn · 03-08-2002, 03:17 AM

This one's not about Gandalf but how about Merry sneaking up on the Morgul King while it gloats over Eowyn.

Nibs · 03-14-2002, 06:16 PM

Good suggestions... I'm designing what I want them to look like now... Morgoth's gonna be tough. I'll probably pull a P.J. balrog.

**crickhollow** · 03-14-2002, 09:16 PM

Merry and Pip as Gandalf and co. find them in chapter eight:TTT.

Bill, Burt, and Tom arguing over how to cook 13 dwarves and a hobbit.

Sam sees an oliphant

"Name the Terms" Gandalf speaking with the mouth of sauron

Nibs · 03-14-2002, 09:38 PM

I like the second and fourth. I think the oliphaunt one is a little overdone by artists.

markedel · 03-14-2002, 11:12 PM

Aragorn and the ringbearers on the field of cormellan

Galadriel giving Gimli hair (something denied to Feanor by the way!)

**crickhollow** · 03-15-2002, 04:44 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Nibs
I like the second and fourth. I think the oliphaunt one is a little overdone by artists.

yeah, I was just flipping through the book, and looking for descriptive passages (eg Gandalf's face when he recognizes Frodo's possessions). You're probably right about the oliphaunt, though. It's just one of those bright moments in an otherwise tense and darkening story, so it stands out a bit more.

Is there anyway we'll get to see some of these ideas as finished products? You know that all things Tolkien (especially those created by mooters) are of interest to us.

Elf Girl · 03-15-2002, 05:33 PM

How about Frodo on Asfaloth?

Eruviel Greenleaf · 03-15-2002, 05:36 PM

Gil-galad in Mordor (when he's still alive!) and Elrond as his standard bearer. .
Okay, it's not Gandalf, but. . .

Nibs · 03-15-2002, 09:40 PM

I'll indubitably take pictures when they're finished.

Eruviel Greenleaf · 03-15-2002, 10:19 PM

Oh, good--
I really want to see them!

***Earniel*** · 03-16-2002, 06:30 AM

yes! Me too! How on earth did you get such an opportunity?

Nibs · 03-16-2002, 08:23 PM

My brother's friend has very little artistic talent and asked us to trace some things for him. Wild life stuff. Bears and moose and others. After I finish those, I can do any I like. I should be drawing them up soon.

***Earniel*** · 03-17-2002, 07:56 AM

You're one lucky man, Nibs. Don't forget to show us the results!

**crickhollow** · 09-17-2002, 07:40 PM

whatever happened with this?

***Rían*** · 09-17-2002, 07:52 PM

OMGoodness!!! This sounds really neat! What beautiful scenes people have thought of! SO ... what happened?

03-08-2002, 01:43 AM	#1
Nibs Head Hollara Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 751	Artist's Inquiry I have the opportunity to draw some Middle-Earth scenes to be engraved by laser into a piece of wood... they're pretty cool, if you've ever seen them. For now, I'm tracing some pictures for this guy that engraves them, but once I'm finished with that I can do any I wish. I've already decided on a few titles and scenes from Middle-Earth that I love: "Bard's Black Arrow" - where Bard is about to fell Smaug "Aure Entuluva!" - Hurin's final battle; day shall come again "The Fall of Fingolfin" - Fingolfin challenges Melkor I already have what I'd like them to look like and such, but I want to do more. Any suggestions? I'd like to do one with Gandalf, but I haven't thought of anything I'm content with yet. __________________ "People used to ring up and say 'Don't quit your day job' or 'sell your synth', but the joke's on them: we were fired and the synth is broken!" -John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants Ever heard of Mormons? I'm one. Click here to know more about us.

03-08-2002, 01:52 AM	#2
olsonm Elf Lord Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: minneapolis MN Posts: 920	How about Gandalf finding Thrain in the dungeons of Dol Guldur. __________________ Gandalf lives...oh and Frodo too. Haldir Lives!!!

03-08-2002, 02:12 AM	#3
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	Or Gandalf in front of the Balrog, "You shall not pass!" of Gandalf in front of the Moria gate. . . Or the White Rider. . . er, I haven't read The Hobbit yet. But, the wood engravings sound really cool! __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

03-08-2002, 03:17 AM	#4
Arathorn Bard of Mangled Songs Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: West of Middle Earth...oh alright...Manila Posts: 2,679	This one's not about Gandalf but how about Merry sneaking up on the Morgul King while it gloats over Eowyn. __________________ Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. -Missionaria Protectiva, Frank Herbert *Accio, Ash Nazg!* Elennuru s?la lúmenn' omentielvo* (The Death Star shines on the hour of our meeting) - Darth Arathorn Put aside the ranger... Start looking for Mumakil action figures...

03-14-2002, 06:16 PM	#5
Nibs Head Hollara Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 751	Good suggestions... I'm designing what I want them to look like now... Morgoth's gonna be tough. I'll probably pull a P.J. balrog. __________________ "People used to ring up and say 'Don't quit your day job' or 'sell your synth', but the joke's on them: we were fired and the synth is broken!" -John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants Ever heard of Mormons? I'm one. Click here to know more about us.

03-14-2002, 09:16 PM	#6
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	Merry and Pip as Gandalf and co. find them in chapter eight:TTT. Bill, Burt, and Tom arguing over how to cook 13 dwarves and a hobbit. Sam sees an oliphant "Name the Terms" Gandalf speaking with the mouth of sauron __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

03-14-2002, 09:38 PM	#7
Nibs Head Hollara Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 751	I like the second and fourth. I think the oliphaunt one is a little overdone by artists. __________________ "People used to ring up and say 'Don't quit your day job' or 'sell your synth', but the joke's on them: we were fired and the synth is broken!" -John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants Ever heard of Mormons? I'm one. Click here to know more about us.

03-14-2002, 11:12 PM	#8
markedel 'Sober' Mullet Frosh Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Queen's Posts: 1,245	Aragorn and the ringbearers on the field of cormellan Galadriel giving Gimli hair (something denied to Feanor by the way!) __________________ "Earnur was a man like his father in valour, but not in wisdom"

03-15-2002, 05:33 PM	#10
Elf Girl Lurker Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Lothlórien Posts: 3,419	How about Frodo on Asfaloth? __________________ There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium...

03-15-2002, 05:36 PM	#11
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	Gil-galad in Mordor (when he's still alive!) and Elrond as his standard bearer. . Okay, it's not Gandalf, but. . . __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

03-15-2002, 09:40 PM	#12
Nibs Head Hollara Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 751	I'll indubitably take pictures when they're finished. __________________ "People used to ring up and say 'Don't quit your day job' or 'sell your synth', but the joke's on them: we were fired and the synth is broken!" -John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants Ever heard of Mormons? I'm one. Click here to know more about us.

03-15-2002, 10:19 PM	#13
Eruviel Greenleaf Alcoholic Villain-Fancying Elf Pirate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Lyonesse Posts: 4,547	Oh, good-- I really want to see them! __________________ Eruviel Greenleaf in a past life. "Whoever has come to understand the world has found only a corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world." -The Gospel of Thomas SQUAWK!

03-16-2002, 06:30 AM	#14
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	yes! Me too! How on earth did you get such an opportunity?

03-16-2002, 08:23 PM	#15
Nibs Head Hollara Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 751	My brother's friend has very little artistic talent and asked us to trace some things for him. Wild life stuff. Bears and moose and others. After I finish those, I can do any I like. I should be drawing them up soon. __________________ "People used to ring up and say 'Don't quit your day job' or 'sell your synth', but the joke's on them: we were fired and the synth is broken!" -John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants Ever heard of Mormons? I'm one. Click here to know more about us.

03-17-2002, 07:56 AM	#16
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	You're one lucky man, Nibs. Don't forget to show us the results! __________________ We are not things.

09-17-2002, 07:40 PM	#17
crickhollow The Buckleberry Fairy/Captain Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Washington State again (I miss Texas). Posts: 1,345	whatever happened with this? __________________ A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

09-17-2002, 07:52 PM	#18
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	OMGoodness!!! This sounds really neat! What beautiful scenes people have thought of! SO ... what happened? __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

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