Illustrated Blog Posts

Even Professor Tolkien wasn't sure what Sam Gamgee's cousin Hal saw when he was hunting at the top of the Northfarthing, looking across...

We have heard tell of the adventurous spirit of the Tooks, but it's the Bucklanders' capacity for wildness which has earned my special...

J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit may be the perfect fairytale. It's a little glade of all the best wildflowers amid an ancient wood of such...

I've done it, too. Our hearts are racing at the thought of getting to the confrontation with the Black Riders on Weathertop. Or out of...

I'd live in the Shire if I could, but if I were to have just one epic adventure in my life, I'd let The Road sweep me off to Rivendell....

The first few pages of Chapter IV of The Fellowship of the Ring give us one of the finest examples in all the lore of Tolkien's wizardry...

In the above video from Uppsala Books, the world's foremost Tolkien scholar, Professor Tom Shippey, gives a short and brilliant talk on...

I have often wished that particular Pre-Raphaelites could have illustrated from Tolkien. They had a way of using their paint to glorify...

Exactly how spellbinding must the music of Thorin's folk have been to counteract generations of Baggins' respectability and sweep Bilbo...

One of the greatest joys I've found as a Tolkien illustrator is the way in which meditating on a particular scene as I research, sketch,...

The Window on the West is one of the last glimpses of beauty vouchsafed to Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee on their darkening Road....

Within the first few words of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit , we are charmed (and appetized!) by the notion that the hole in the ground has...

If you could believe you'd been put here on Earth primarily to appreciate its beauty, I think you'd find time for very little else. Even...

Click image to view The Art of Mercy in Middle-earth: Paintings Inspired by Tolkien's Legendarium by Miriam Ellis. It is with joy and...

Have you ever tried to envision the three separate hobbit branches living in the beautiful Vales of Anduin before their great westward...

The wandering wizard of hobbit legend can cause a glowing tower of smoke to rain biting sparks in a goblin cavern, set pinecones alight...

Waking from the joys of Easter Sunday to the tender grief of Easter Monday, I picked up the nearest little canvas to give myself time to...

Without Bilbo's three books of lore , without Frodo's poignant narrative, without Sam passing these written treasures on to Elanor in...

Late Third Age traveling companions of the hobbits were wont to be surprised by their hardihood. Likewise, if readers only meet the...

Gandalf takes it upon himself to apprentice Frodo to the art of pity, but Bilbo appears to need no schooling in the subject - or is it...