why Alan Lee for Children of Hurin?
Calvin
"will be illustrated with colour plates by the renowned artist Alan
Lee, ..."
Why is it always Alan Lee? Is he the official Tolkien illustrator?
Once
upon a time the works of many artists were used for Tolkien books and
other things. Alan Lee's -drab- take on Middle-earth is interesting,
but
far from 'definitive', it seems to me. Anyone but Lee would be a
better
choice for this book, in my opinion, just to end the fixation on Alan
Lee that the Tolkien establishment seems to have.
Dior
that i have any problems with his works, however, I would have preferred
something from Tolkien himself.
"Calvin" <cri...@windstream.net> wrote in message
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Calvin
> I was a little surprised that Allan Lee chosen to illustrate the book. not
> that i have any problems with his works, however, I would have preferred
> something from Tolkien himself.
Yes, and Tolkien produced ample illustrations that would be
appropriate. Ironically, the Tolkien Estate website uses
Tolkien's own artworks for decoration.
Linards Ticmanis
> According to the Tolkien Estate website, The Children of Hurin
> "will be illustrated with colour plates by the renowned artist Alan
> Lee, ..."
>
> Why is it always Alan Lee? Is he the official Tolkien illustrator?
I guess we should be thankful they didn't pick Nasmith...
--
Linards Ticmanis
Dior
(I guess the coming of Glorung was already used on the unfinished tales 20th
anniversery edition).
"Calvin" <cri...@windstream.net> wrote in message
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Calvin
> The website design is quite stunning. I would have loved something similar
> (I guess the coming of Glorung was already used on the unfinished tales 20th
> anniversery edition).
The website also has this amusing line about the book:
"... and contain a map drawn by Christopher Tolkien of Beleriand, ..."
TolkienFan77
Will it be a retread of the one used in "Silmarillion?" Hopefully not,
though I don't know what more could be added at that scale.
Warrior of Rohan
their various styles of depicting Middle-earth. Alan Lee is in the UK so
maybe it was more convenient.
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Derek Broughton
Perfectly in keeping with JRR's style of not using unnecessary commas for a
parenthetical expression!
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derek
William Cloud Hicklin
My guess is that CJRT happens to like Lee's work. After all, whether or
not *we* happen to like Pauline Baynes, she got the nod from JRRT
throughout his lifetime. Lee was the first artist whose work appeared in
*any* English edition of Tolkien's Middle-earth writing,* and to this day
one of only two (along with Nasmith)**. According to interviews with Lee,
the Estate sought him out for the Illustrated Edition, based on his
earlier work.
BTW, this puts the lie to the silly rumor that CJRT harbors a grudge
against anyone associated with the movies.
*If you don't count the Rankin-Bass edition of The Hobbit. Which you
shouldn't.
** I can understand not picking Naismith for this job: his rendition of
Glaurung is much too elephantine and not sufficiently snakey; and when he
depicts characters he can get a little Hildebrandtish.
--
" I would even contend that a reaction against Tolkien's non-Modernist
prose style is just as influential in the rejection of Tolkien by
traditional literary scholars as is Modernist antipathy to the themes of
his work"
Calvin
> ... After all, whether or
> not *we* happen to like Pauline Baynes, she got the nod from JRRT
I love her work too, by the way, both what Tolkien saw of it and
what she has done after his death, for examples (are there others?)
her illustrations for Smith of Wooton Major, Farmer Giles of Ham,
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, her illustrated and illuminated
map of Middle-earth (details of which were used on a boxed
trade paperback set of LotR), and Bilbo's Last Song.