Evan Dahm — Boromir

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Boromir

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Finally Boromir! I redrew him several times, particularly to figure out his face. He is dressed roughly as described when he’s introduced in Rivendell: in rich clothing, a fur cloak, wearing a silver collar with a white stone set in it. Tried to give him his own color scheme that’s separate enough from the rest of the fellowship’s. And there’s some of Gondor’s five-pointed stars on him, but nothing more than that, as I don’t think he would’ve wanted everyone to know the son of the Steward is out and about.

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Frodo

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Another warmup/practice sort of thing.

I really like the Lord of the Rings; I think it is my favorite book. Books? Peter Jackson’s movies are the conduit through which pop culture has become familiar with LOTR, and I think that for all their imperfections, the visual world those movies present is virtually flawless. It’s an interesting approach to worldbuilding– making a visual context for a textual story, which fits the tone of the original and emphasizes it, without bringing anything really new to it. But anyway I’d like to draw some of the characters as I see them, or as I’d like to see them if it weren’t for those movies overpowering my own images of the book.

I’ve drawn a couple more of these and will put them up when colored.

Edit- I forgot to mention that what made me start working on this was reading Sam Bosma’s excellent blog, which is lately full of a lot of work for his illustrations of the Hobbit for Picture Book Report.

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Radagast

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Radagast the Brown, Gandalf’s friend who appears only second-hand in LOTR. Does he show up in any others of Tolkien’s works? I haven’t read anything but LOTR and Children of Húrin and the Hobbit long ago. I like the character anyway.

Rather than skimming my copy of the book for reference for these drawings, I’ve downloaded an audiobook of the whole book, and I’ve been listening to it while drawing comics. I forgot about audiobooks; they are really the best.

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Gandalf

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It is Gandalf can you dig it. My tiny contribution to the huge number of images of this hugely iconic character; the archetypal Aged Magic Person. I think he should look much more like a homeless person than popular interpretations usually show him. I really enjoy drawing these characters; eventually I would like to draw Every Single One.

Updating Order of Tales in an hour or so of this posting, here.

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Tom & Goldberry

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Man I am obsessed with this. I really need to get back on track with actual comics work.

Tom Bombadil and Goldberry. These two seem a bit out of place in LOTR, and to me contribute to a sense that the hobbits’ trip up until Rivendell is very simple and episodic, not quite serious and involved in the larger plot, yet. I really like Tom, and the contrast he provides to the dark and dramatic goings-on. Goldberry, like most women in the book, is not afforded very much importance after she’s introduced.

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