Powderdays

[ollyhoo]

Villa Nottebohm

[ivorywork]

[free-my-mindd]

Luca Ponsato

[meanwhilebackinthedungeon]

– Raoul Vitale

the sword and the rose

[70sscifiart]

Angus McBride.

All but one of these are illustrating scenes from the world of Lord of the Rings. Try to spot the odd one out, and then read my newsletter about McBride to see the answer.

[victusinveritas]

Elric of Melnibone.

Art by Philippe Caza

[simplytolkien]

“[Family life must have been different] in the days when a family had fed on the produce of the same few miles of country for six generations, and that perhaps was why they saw nymphs in the fountains and dryads in the wood - they were not mistaken for there was in a sense real (not metaphorical) connections between them and the countryside. What had been earth and air and later corn, and later still bread, really was in them. We of course who live on a standardized international diet…are artificial beings and have no connection (save in sentiment) with any place on earth. We are synthetic men, uprooted. The strength of the hills is not ours.”

— ~ J.R.R Tolkien, from an unpublished letter, June 22, 1930

[mtg-art-daily]

Hypnotic Specter

“…There was no trace/ Of aught on that illumined face…” —Samuel Coleridge, “Phantom”

Artist: Douglas Shuler

[retrocgads]

USA 1993

[oldschoolfrp]

Box art signed "Eagle"

[pururin]

[oxcroft]

[oxcroft]

[oxcroft]

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[haaaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Rogues Gallery Cover Art by Clyde Caldwell

[overclassy]

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