About Miriam Ellis
Greetings! I'm Miriam Ellis. I'm an award-winning fine artist and an author. My work has taken first place in many adjudicated art exhibitions in California and is held in private collections throughout North America. Most recently, I have been honored to receive The Tolkien Society Award for Best Artwork.
My book, The Art of Mercy in Middle-earth: Paintings Inspired by Tolkien's Legendarium, is available at Amazon and other fine booksellers. This book features 48 full-color paintings and essays rich in the themes of mercy, recovery, escape, consolation, high beauty, and fellowship in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. Praise for the book from Tolkien community luminaries including Tom Shippey, Ted Nasmith, Holly Ordway, Sara Brown, Alan Sisto, and many more may be read here. I also invite you to follow my wonderful publisher, Uppsala Books, on social media.
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I have had the great pleasure of presenting at many conferences and events, including Middle Moot, Cascade Moot, Holy Moot, and The Tolkien Society's Tolkien Reading Day, have been honored to be featured as a keynote speaker at West Moot, and have had my artwork featured in the presentation of many fine scholars at gala events such as Oxonmoot. One of my paintings was chosen by The Tolkien Society for their annual Christmas card. Another was used as the cover art for the Peter Roe series book, Translating and Illustrating Tolkien, illustrated by Will Sherwood. In 2026, I was delighted to be chosen to create the logo for The Tolkien Society's Oxonmoot to feature on merchandise for this celebrated event. My art has appeared on the covers of The Tolkien Society's Mallorn magazine and the Beyond Bree Calendar, and has also appeared in Amon Hen magazine, as well as across the websites and media channels of some of the web's most beloved Tolkien-inspired content creators.
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