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Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 5:23 pm
by Merry
Oh, how beautiful!
I think my love of trees has grown hand-in-hand with my love for Tolkien. Men were hacking down a beloved oak with chain saws on our campus yesterday (it had a large crack in it and was hollow down the center, and so a menace in a windstorm, they said), and I found myself kind of grieving for it throughout the day.
Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 6:00 pm
by Airwin
That's gorgeous Philipa! I love b/w!
Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2006 6:05 pm
by Iolanthe
I can see why you've called it Mallorn Tree, there is something very elegant and elvish about the sweep of the branches.
Glad you've posted one of your photos here, Philipa, it's nice to see our world through Tolkien inspired eyes. I'm a tree lover to and wept buckets as a child when the very old tamarisk in our front garden had to be cut down. I really felt as though a friend had died.
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:18 pm
by Philipa
Thank you ladies.
Another project I used to do was write poems in the character's voices. Unfortunately, I can't find the right journal with them in it.
I'll do some more hunting when the house is quiet.
Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 7:50 pm
by Iolanthe
I hope you find them, it would be lovely to have some more poetry on this thread
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 1:44 pm
by marbretherese
thanks for posting the lovely pic, Philippa, and yes I agree, it would be lovely to see more photos, poems, artworks here!
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 7:38 pm
by Iolanthe
Well, I really haven't had time to do more than sketch out my Lothlorien painting, so in the meantime here's what started out as a doodle and then somehow became Gandalf.
I'll probably use this as a basis for a better, more carefully done drawing but I rather like the look of him so here he is:
Gandalf
Posted: Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:50 pm
by Philipa
My Goddess I wish I could doodle like that. I like him very much Iolanthe. Can't wait to see the finished product.
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 12:07 am
by Merry
Amazing! He's looking down, maybe at a hobbit, and he looks a little bristly, one of those 'don't be more of a fool than you have to' looks?
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:23 am
by Airwin
Gorgeous picture Iolanthe! You've really captured the authority and magical mystery of Gandalf!
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:56 pm
by marbretherese
It's brilliant, Iolanthe, I love those eyebrows!!
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:21 pm
by Cheyenne Angel
wow Gorgeous picture Iolanthe! I like it very much
now...
I have a little portrait...
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 3:14 pm
by Philipa
Ah the man himself! I love it CA. He looks like the grandfather we'd all love to have doesn't he?
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:16 pm
by Merry
Yes! or the professor we wish we had (although the mumbling might have been an issue).
Very nice.
Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:43 pm
by Cheyenne Angel
Philipa wrote:Ah the man himself! I love it CA. He looks like the grandfather we'd all love to have doesn't he?
thanks Philipa and Merry
and yes you are absolutly right, exactly like the grandfather we did love to have
...or the professor as well..
.. oh yes!