Anna Smol: A Single Leaf

Tag: Tolkien as artist and writer

  • Drawing your way into a fantasy landscape

    Drawing your way into a fantasy landscape – John Howe’s process compared to J.R.R. Tolkien’s drawings of Shelob’s Lair and the Tower of Cirith Ungol.

  • Tolkien art exhibition at the Bodleian

    Sometimes it’s hard to tell which comes first: is it the illustration and then the text, or does the text come first and then the illustration? That’s a question posed by Catherine McIlwaine, the Bodleian’s Tolkien Archivist, as she reviews some of Tolkien’s artwork with illustrator Alan Lee. And that’s exactly the question that my…

  • Tolkien as Artist and Writer

    Family and friends joined me in the Tolkien Birthday Toast on January 3rd, a global event sponsored by the Tolkien Society. It’s a wonderful feeling to know that your own toast is part of a continuing wave of glasses raised around the world every hour at 9 p.m. local time. This year, I was fortunate…