Tolkien's World : Paintings Of Middle-earth Info

How paintings of the Misty Mountains or Mordor evoke "The Sublime" (terror mixed with beauty).

Tolkien’s own watercolor sketches (e.g., The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the-Water ). Emphasis on "light and distance" rather than hyper-realism. Tolkien's World : Paintings of Middle-Earth

I. The Author as Illustrator