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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

More Pretty Pictures

Apparently, while we were growing up with Brothers Hildebrandt as the measuring stick for Tolkien illustrations, the Russian edition had these illustrations:
(Again, I won't violate copyright by reposting the pictures themselves.)

http://egelantier.tumblr.com/post/85739410808/my-childhood-russian-edition-of-lord-of-the-rings
http://egelantier.tumblr.com/post/85739549878/quasi-medieval-tolkien-illustrations-by-sergey
http://egelantier.tumblr.com/post/85739762858/quasi-medieval-tolkien-illustrations-by-sergey
http://egelantier.tumblr.com/post/87223083158/more-sergey-yuhimovs-lotr-illustrations-slightly

Same artist, different post, with some pictures not in the previous series:
http://www.liveinternet.ru/community/2281209/post116167073

I think the Russians got the better deal.

There are two pictures in the last post that can't place which scene they refer to.
 • small figure walking down a long red, torch-lit hallway
 • a dark lake with the broken pillar
Anyone have any guesses about those?