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The old ones say that the veil is thin at All Hallow’s Eve. Those who venture into the…
Continue readingWith kind permission John Howe has allowed us to re-print his newsletter entries as they are released. Take a look at the latest edition! Paint Your Dragon (Or Of The Topography of Tesseracts and the Ineffable Benefits of Entasis): I spend a fair bit of time pondering the imponderables (that’s why it takes time) of fantasy imagery. Fantasy imagery has been happening for a long time. In fact no culture, ever, has created ONLY realistic, down-to-earth, day-to-day and otherwise familiar imagery. Everything we set our eyes upon is deified, vilifeid, praised or ridiculed, or, with surprising regularity, sublimated by our desires and aspirations. Hence our dawning century of fantasy art, with little fantasy artists scattered the world over, who peer into looking glasses darkly Alice-fashion, hoping for a glimpse of the invisible, a hint of the ineffable, in the hopes of transcribing the sparkle of that particular glamour on paper/canvas/screen.
Continue ReadingThe old ones say that the veil is thin at All Hallow’s Eve. Those who venture into the…
Continue readingThe following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on October 23: Smaug searches the mountain (1341) Bilbo returns to…
Continue readingThe Rings of Power S3 Trailer is big, dark, and the best of peak TV.
Continue readingThe following event(s) took place in Middle-earth on October 20: Bilbo and the Dwarves think of what to…
Continue readingPhoto Spy Report of a golden ring inscribed with verse may be the first look at the TV series namesake.
Continue readingNearly all of us Shire-folk (and likely every Ranger) love to forage in the autumn. Many of us…
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