Members' Art, Prose and Poetry

Iolanthe · Post by **Iolanthe** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:30 pm

I doodled a version where the legs were much more trunk like (and probably more accurate) but then any effort to make them bendable and put in knees just looks wierd. Either the knees have to be enormous or you have make the legs much narrower there. Both look awful.

No knees, no walking!

Lindariel · Post by **Lindariel** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 12:27 pm

Iolanthe, your Treebeard is wonderful! A lovely companion piece for Fimbrethil. What I've always wanted to see is a close-up of Treebeard's face, capturing those extraordinary eyes "brown, shot with a green light" as The Professor described them through Pippin:

"One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them, filled up with ages of memory and long, slow steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present: like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake."

Now, how THAT'S to be accomplished, I haven't the faintest clue, but I've always wanted to see it!

Iolanthe · Post by **Iolanthe** » Fri May 21, 2010 1:13 pm

I've just received my copy of Mallorn with 'Glaurung's Death Throes' on the cover

. It's a bit duller looking than the original (a LOT duller, actually, the colour's somehow drained away although it looked fine on the file I sent) but I'm still thrilled to see it there! And it's a real MeJ issue because when I looked inside I disovered to my delight that there were two of Riv's and a full page 'Spring exceeded his wildest hopes' by Marbretherese on the inside back cover! It all looks fabulous. Go us!!!!

On another note, I'll be taking a batch of my Tolkien prints to the Festival in the Shire in August, where they'll go into the general 'shop'.

marbretherese · Post by **marbretherese** » Fri May 21, 2010 1:40 pm

Hurrah! I want to dash home from work right now so I can look at my copy - if the postman has delivered, that is!! but I guess I'll have to be patient a few hours longer . . .

Iolanthe · Post by **Iolanthe** » Fri May 21, 2010 4:42 pm

It looks wonderful - you won't be disappointed

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Merry · Post by **Merry** » Sat May 22, 2010 5:08 am

This is wonderful--so proud of you all!

marbretherese · Post by **marbretherese** » Sat May 22, 2010 10:29 am

**gnashing my teeth**

my copy of Mallorn hasn't arrived yet!!!

Riv Res · Post by **Riv Res** » Sat May 22, 2010 11:26 am

FABULOUS News!! Will have to wait my extra week or two to get mine, but sounds like it will be worth the wait.

Iolanthe · Post by **Iolanthe** » Sat May 22, 2010 4:14 pm

It will - I think it's fantastic that we are all in the one issue. Definitely one to keep

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marbretherese · Post by **marbretherese** » Sun May 23, 2010 2:13 pm

You mean, you don't keep them all???

Lindariel · Post by **Lindariel** » Mon May 24, 2010 1:22 am

FABULOUS news ladies! I envy you your talent!

Iolanthe · Post by **Iolanthe** » Mon May 24, 2010 4:57 pm

Thanks Lindariel!

marbretherese wrote:You mean, you don't keep them all???

no......

marbretherese · Post by **marbretherese** » Tue May 25, 2010 10:56 am

I'm shocked to the core . . . .!! I do hang on to all my copies of Mallorn and I'll gladly keep the latest one too, if it ever arrives - I'm still waiting!!

Iolanthe · Post by **Iolanthe** » Wed May 26, 2010 3:57 pm

Actually - I have kept all the latest Mallorns, but only because one of the other of us has had some stuff in it, but if we didn't I'd read it and bin (recycle) it. The only Amon Hen's I've kept are kept for the same reason. But I know that if I ever need to look at a Mallorn I haven't got I can come and look at yours!

Fingers crossed your copy arrives soon. The booking form for Oxonmoot is also in the same package

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Riv Res · Post by **Riv Res** » Wed May 26, 2010 4:43 pm

Got my copy of Mallorn yesterday and I see what you mean about the colors. It looks as if he tried to deepen the colors on my two pieces as well. No problem, but I prefer my original.