{"id":97093,"date":"2015-02-17T21:20:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T02:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=97093"},"modified":"2015-02-17T21:20:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T02:20:41","slug":"illustrations-for-a-chinese-lord-of-the-rings-in-stunning-glass-painting-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2015\/02\/17\/97093-illustrations-for-a-chinese-lord-of-the-rings-in-stunning-glass-painting-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustrations for a Chinese Lord of the Rings in Stunning \u201cGlass Painting Style\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lotr-chinese-covers-fellowship.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-97094 size-medium no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lotr-chinese-covers-fellowship-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"lotr-chinese-covers-fellowship\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lotr-chinese-covers-fellowship-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lotr-chinese-covers-fellowship.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a>Ringer kiwifan sent us this report of these beautiful illustrations for a Chinese version of the Lord of the Rings, they&#8217;ve been done in a gorgeous &#8220;glass painting style&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>These beautiful\u00a0book covers are drawn by artist Jian Guo\u00a0 and are part of a competition held by the publisher of the new Chinese text as possible covers for the new books, the lovely, monochromatic illustrations draw on many of the design elements of Tolkien\u2019s original paintings for the trilogy\u2019s covers, elaborating on the iconic ring and towers with intricate Asian lines and flourishes. You can\u00a0see The Fellowship of the Ring in green, \u00a0The Two Towers in red, and, The Return of the King in blue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lotr-chinese-covers-two-towers.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-97097 size-medium no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lotr-chinese-covers-two-towers-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"lotr-chinese-covers-two-towers\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lotr-chinese-covers-two-towers-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lotr-chinese-covers-two-towers.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lotr-chinese-covers-return.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-97096 size-medium no-lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lotr-chinese-covers-return-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"lotr-chinese-covers-return\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lotr-chinese-covers-return-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lotr-chinese-covers-return.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[<a title=\" Illustrations for a Chinese Lord of the Rings in a Stunning \u201cGlass Painting Style\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/02\/illustrations-for-a-chinese-lord-of-the-rings-in-a-stunning-glass-painting-style.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ringer kiwifan sent us this report of these beautiful illustrations for a Chinese version of the Lord of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":97094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[198,36,153,35,38,149,37,152],"tags":[2014],"class_list":["post-97093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fans-creations","category-fotr-book","category-tolkien-life","category-lotr-books","category-rotk-book","category-lotr","category-ttt-book","category-tolkien","tag-the-lord-of-the-rings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lotr-chinese-covers-fellowship.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-pg1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97093"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97101,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97093\/revisions\/97101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}