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grumpierbilbo · 3 years
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1. Ophelia by John William Waterhouse (1910) 2. Imogen by Herbert Gustave Schmalz (1888) 3. King Arthur by Charles Ernest Butler (1903) 4. Sir Galahad by George Frederic Watts (1862) LOTR + art (27/?)
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grumpierbilbo · 3 years
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Éowyn's Costumes
1. The Lady Clare by John William Waterhouse (1900) 2. Windflowers by John William Waterhouse (1903) 3. Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth by John Singer Sargent (1889) 4. Head of a Lady in Medieval Costume by Lucien-Victor Guirand De Scévola (1900)
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grumpierbilbo · 3 years
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Éowyn in Armor
1. Watchman, What of the Night? by George Frederic Watts (circa 1867) 2. Joan of Arc by Sir John Gilbert (before 1897) 3. Joan of Arc by Annie Swynnerton (before 1933) 4. Britomart by Walter Crane (1900)
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grumpierbilbo · 3 years
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Éowyn's White Wool Gown
by Edmund Leighton 1. Lady Godiva (1892) 2. The Shadow (1909)
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grumpierbilbo · 3 years
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1. Day by Edward Robert Hughes (c.1880-85) 2. Night by Edward Robert Hughes (c.1880-85) LOTR + art (26/?)
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grumpierbilbo · 3 years
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Arwen's Dream gown
1. Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses by John William Waterhouse (1891) 2. In Memoriam by Evelyn De Morgan (circa 1898)
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grumpierbilbo · 3 years
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1. The Sleeping Beauty by John Collier (1921) 2. Flaming June by Frederic Leighton (1895) 3. Miranda - The Tempest by John William Waterhouse (1916) LOTR + art (20/?)
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grumpierbilbo · 3 years
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1. Mary with the Child and Singing Angels by Sandro Botticelli (1477) 2. The Days of Creation: The Sixth Day by Edward Burne-Jones (1870-1876) 3. Italian Girl with Flowers by Joaquín Sorolla (1886) LOTR + art (17/?)
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grumpierbilbo · 3 years
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By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (Part 1) (Part 2)
1. Love among the Ruins (1870 - 1873) 2. The Beguiling of Merlin - Merlin and Vivien (1870 - 1874) 3. Days of Creation 1st day (The First Day of Creation) 1870 - 1876 4. The Golden Stairs (1876 - 1880)
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery has a world-renowned collection of works by Burne-Jones and the Pre-Raphaelites that, some claim, strongly influenced the young J. R. R. Tolkien, who wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, with influences taken from the same mythological scenes portrayed by the Pre-Raphaelites. Tolkien considered his own group of school friends and artistic associates, the so-called TCBS, as a group in the vein of the Pre-Raphaelites.
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grumpierbilbo · 3 years
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1. Queen Guinevere’s Maying by John Collier (1900) 2. La Belle Dame Sans Merci by Frank Bernard Dicksee (circa 1901) 3. Elgiva by Joanna Mary Boyce (1855) LOTR + art (24/?)
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grumpierbilbo · 3 years
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1. Martyr in the Catacombs by Jules-Cyrille Cavé (1886) 2. Jeanne La Rousse (detail) by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (before 1911) 3. The Crystal Ball by John William Waterhouse (1902) LOTR + art (22/?)
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grumpierbilbo · 3 years
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1. Portrait of a Dark-haired Beauty in a White Veil by Adolf Felix Müller-Ury (before 1947) 2. Boreas by John William Waterhouse (1903) 3. Tristan and Isolde by Herbert James Draper (1901) LOTR + art (18/?)
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grumpierbilbo · 3 years
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1. Mount Vesuvius at Midnight by Albert Bierstadt (1868) 2. Merapi, Eruption by Night by Raden Saleh (1865) LOTR + art (28/?)
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grumpierbilbo · 3 years
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1. Siegfried und Brunnhilde by Charles Ernest Butler (1909) 2. Hervors død (Hervor’s Death) by Peter Nicolai Arbo (before 1892) (the rest of the series)
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grumpierbilbo · 3 years
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1. The Day Dream by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1880) 2. The princess out of school by Edward Robert Hughes (c. 1901)
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grumpierbilbo · 3 years
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The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563) / The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
I’ve often wondered whether his brilliant “Tower of Babel” inspired Tolkien’s description of Minas Tirith — Alan Lee
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