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The Dark Tower
The Dark Tower
47.3 x 47.3 cm, 1990
The 1991 Tolkien Calendar
Originally done for the calendar, this painting was reprinted on The Two Towers (September 1991), both hard and paperback. The calendars in the early '90's were quite a big format, spiral-bound, and more or less square. A frame with two facing vignettes of Sauron's army filled in the edges to accomodate the dates along the bottom.
I can't honestly remember the starting point, but I had (and still do) a collection of photos of the skulls of small animals - mice, rats, small birds - that an art school classmate and I had piled up and photographed. (Don't ask me to justify piling up and taking pictures of skulls, it's one of those things thats comes naturally to art students.) From these snapshots, I had done a painting of the Nameless Isle, from the Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, by H. P. Lovecraft. (Don't ask me why I did that either...) Like many things, some paintings are a dry run, and I knew I had the foundations of Sauron's tower Barad-dur. Naturally, it was much easier to draw the bottom of the tower and leave the top to the imagination, and in truth it took Peter Jackson to finally push me to consider the summit. As for the Ringwraith and his fell steed, they came more or less with the landscape.
Collins Modern Classics: The Two Towers
Collins Modern Classics: The Two Towers
The Two Towers - hardcover
The Two Towers - dust jacket
The Two Towers - paperback
The Two Towers - Bulgaria
The Two Towers – Holland
The Two Towers - Poland (paperback)
The Two Towers - Portugal
The Two Towers - Spain
The Lord of the Rings Volume II: The Two Towers - Spain
The Tolkien Library - The Lord of the Rings Volume 2: The Two Towers (Spain)
The Two Towers – Sweden
The Two Towers - Sweden (paperback)
The 1991 Tolkien Calendar
John Howe Monography
John Howe Artbook
Hands On Fantasy - Denmark
Hands-On Fantasy - Sweden
The Lord of the Rings Part 3: The Return of the King - Highbridge audio edition/front
The Lord of the Rings Part 3: The Return of the King - Highbridge audio edition/back
The Lord of the Rings full-cast dramatization - Germany
The Two Towers -Sweden, CD audio edition
Myth & Magic - Japan
The Lord of the Rings full-cast dramatization - Germany (2nd edition)
The Lord of the Rings Volume 4: The Two Towers (Volume 2) - South Korea
Unauthorized:
The Lord of the Rings - Bulgaria
The Lord of the Rings Volume 2: The Two Towers - Bulgaria
Characters From Tolkien - Serbia and Montenegro
The Two Towers - Serbia and Montenegro
Middle-Earth Collectible Card Game Binder II
I.C.E. Starter Deck display box - Dutch
Lord of the Rings Bubble Gum package 3 - front
Lord of the Rings Tutti Frutti Bubble Gum
Rossomahar - Imperium Tenebrarum
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