Long before The Lord of the Rings trilogy reached the screen, Alan Lee had already shaped the visual soul of Middle-earth 🧙🏻‍♂️

'Logan's Rock, St Levan,' (c1916) perfectly demonstrates the height of Laura Knight’s development in Cornwall, this work is part of a series of paintings she composed between 1915 and 1919 all sharing an elevated viewpoint, dramatic diagonal composition and vibrant colour.

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Excalibur, Robert Peak (1981)

Halls of Manwe on the Mountains of the World above Faerie — J.R.R. Tolkien

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Painted in the late summer and autumn of 1962, John Nash's picture shows the backs of the old mill buildings at Boxted in north Essex. The mill itself was derelict for many years and is no longer standing.

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A bit of art for Ralph Bakshi's 'Wizards' (1977) by Ian Miller

THE PLAGUE DOGS (1982, M. Rosen)

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“Wild Beast Wood”, Sidney Sime (1865–1941)

Ian Miller's cover art for the 1974 Panther edition of The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales by H.P. Lovecraft. #horror #horrorart #horrorcommunity #horrorfam #cthulhu

Tolkien's manuscript and sketch of Helm's Deep.

The Book of the New Sun by Guillaume Sorel

'An East Anglian Landscape.' (c1971) In the early 1950s, Denis Wirth Miller settled in the Essex town of Wivenhoe - he considered the ship-building and fishing town a perfect retreat for his work and began to skillfully capture the austere, beautiful Essex flatlands on canvas.

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The world of Moebius (Jean Giraud)