Archaic Arda

Aesthetic blog for Tolkien's imagined prehistoric past. Avatar by Rowena Morill and header by Ted Nasmith.

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Orpheus – Franz Stassen (1900)

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Hecuba and Polyxena by Merry-Joseph Blondel (after 1814)

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Bondage, Ernest Normand, 1890.

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The Shape Changer, Rowena Morrill, 1993.

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ORC RANGER by Uros Sljivic

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Ugluk by John Howe

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Attila and the Huns, George Rochegrosse, 1910.

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Her Master's Choice, Fabio Fabbi.

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Genseric Sacking Rome, Karl Briullov, 1836.

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The Enchantress (c. 1901) by Arthur Wardle (British, 1864 – 1949), signed bottom right ‘Arthur Wardle’, oil on canvas, 62 x 43 in. (157.5 x 109.2 cm.), Private Collection

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Sketch of an orc mother and child by Alan Lee

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Sappho (1898) by Laurence Koe (British, 1869 – 1913), signed 'LAURENCE KOE' (lower right), oil on canvas, 103 x 127.5 cm (40 9/16 x 50 3/16 in), Private Collection

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Frank Frazetta, illustration work for "Pellucidar" by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1985

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Young Bathers In A Fountain by Albert Auguste Fourié (1854-1896)

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A Pleasant Surprise by Henry Ryland (1856-1924)

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Pomona Receiving the Harvest of Fruit by Cornelis Cornelisz Van Haarlem (1626)