Morgoth's Forces before Gondolin
46.0 x 64.3 cm
1990
Cover illustration for the Book of Lost Tales II by Christopher Tolkien.
Any book cover offers only the bottom half of the right-hand side guaranteed to be free of text. With the title, spine and back cover copy, there is precious little room left sometimes to actually paint. It does have the merit of focusing one attention on essentials, though... Yes, those are the Swiss Alps.(I took out the ski lifts and the wanderweg signposts...)
