Yet another Balrog and Gandalf scene, this time originally done for a convention poster in Holland. It was very exciting to imagine Balrogs when they were rather more commonplace than the last survivor in the Mines of Moria.
Naturally, it was an unfinished cut, and while I can’t tell you what’s in it, it’ll certainly be worth waiting those extra months. As the painting was for a calendar, it is not necessary to accommodate for titles and other bits of text. John Howe :: Illustrator Portfolio :: Home / From Hobbiton to Mordor / Cards and Such / Balrog Unfortunately, I can’t really share it with you… Just returned from London where I had the immense treat of seeing the Two Towers in the lo-o-ong DVD version. Glorfindel battles to his death with the Balrog pursuing his people fleeing from fallen Gondolin. Tag Archive for: ‘balrog’ Boy, Have I Got News…. A Balrog (/ ˈ b æ l r ɒ ɡ /) is a powerful fictional monster in J. R. R. Tolkien 's Middle-earth. Some pictures are dated, but if there are question marks instead of the date, it means that I am unsure of the correct date. Chronicles | March 17, 2003. BUT, knowing now that they would have her speak, She threw her wet hair backward from her brow, Her hand close to her mouth touching her cheek, Opening lines of The Defence of Guenevere, from The Defence of Guenever and Other Poems by William Morris, Bell & Daldy, 1858 He crouched down low at Jason’s feet, fitted …
It first appeared in print in his high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings, where the Fellowship of the Ring encounter one known as Durin's Bane in the Mines of Moria.
This is a index of John Howe artwork, sorted by the book.
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