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DECEMBER (1995 Jrr Tolkien Calendar). ------------------------------------- THE SIEGE OF ANGBAND 'And afterward they laid the Siege of Angband which lasted more than two hundred years; and Fingolfin boasted that Morgoth could never burst from his leaguer, though neither could they take Angband nor recover the Silmarils. But war never ceased utterly in all this time, for Morgoth was secretly arming, and ever and anon would try the strength and watchfulness of his foes.' The Shaping of Middle-earth. -- Image description: tolk-angband.jpg is 1277x821. -- Illustrations to JRR Tolkien's books by John Howe. -------------------------------------------------- This, among several, picture is painted by John Howe. Together with Ted Nasmith, he is my favourite illustrator for the JRR Tolkien books. John Howe is currently the far most used illustrator for covers of Tolkien paper-backs. He is very detailed, allthough not as much as Ted Nasmith. Some of my favourites are: "tolk-balrog", "tolk-dtower", "tolk-gandalf" and "tolk-uruk". -- The "tolk-" series is a collection of approximately 140(!) scans with motives based on JRR Tolkien books. Most of the pictures are are based on the books "The Hobbit" (easy reading), "Lord of The Rings" (impressive language, complexity, consistency, plot), and "The Silmarillion" (don't start with this; it's more a dictionary that a story. I recommend everyone to read "Lord of The Rings". It is even better the second time you read it. Don't be alarmed by all the names. You will probably not read such a completely perfect book ever again! Except for the "tolk-lee" series, most of the pictures come from Tolkien calendars that come out every year. Actually several of the "tolk-lee" were also in the 1993(?) calendar. If the people at ftp.funet.fi let me I will continue to use nic as my official distribution site. Then, the newest versions can be found at nic in /pub/pics/fantasy/Tolkien You may need to login as `pictures' instead of `anonymous'. Also, try searching for 'tolkien' or 'tolk-' at Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com/ Or, try directly: http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/relipper/tolkien/rootpage.html ftp://ftp.uci.agh.edu.pl/pub/misc/gifs/Tolkien/ -- The "tolk-" series was scanned using a HP ScanJet IIc 24-bit 400dpi scanner. Some of the images are very difficult to zoom because of the printing technique in the calendars. The image tolk-cliffz.jpg was a nightmare to make, because of Moire patterns, but I finally got a usable result. Conclusion: The scanner truly gives very sharp images up to 400dpi and a bit more, but the calendar picture have too low printing quality resulting in noise (Moiret patterns). ImageMagick (John Cristy) like display, convert and mogrify was used for cropping and adjusting the images. I recommend using ImageMagick ("display") to view these images. -- - Eriol, "One, who dreams alone".
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