JRR Tolkien's Silmarillion (3 of 9): The Story of Beren & Luthien HQ

This is a 'graphic novel' setup I did for myself a couple years ago set to the audio book for this chapter. This is NOT the entire novel and all images and audio are used under the Fair Use Act. I pieced other people's art together with the words to make images I liked...It recently occured to me that this could be set to the audio and help make the story a little more visual until a decent effort is made by someone with money and permission :) The art clips come from MANY different sources all around the world, the final part (#9) will include the credit. Some are unknown and I would appreciate assistance giving anyone credit for their bit. I pieced the art together in Photoshop CS2 playing with the various filters and new warp techniques. You can see the neat warp function used in the beginning of part 3 on the little map. This was a flat image I curled the edge of and put a little tear in it - came out pretty good. The end result is a very ecclectic and scattered group of images which directly relate to the text and are sometime staggering in their quality. I have to say here Ted Nasmith and a couple other Tolkien artists did much of the later work but alot of the first few parts is almost entirely fan art. My original conception was to do it entirely with fanart (thus you see pencil, watercolors, ...) but that ended up being unfeasible while keeping with the quality I personally enjoy. So we cheat a little and I can do anything other than enjoy it...oh well! Download it!!!!!!

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• Tolkien
• Beren
• Luthien
• Silmarillion
• Feanor
• Morgoth
• Lord
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• Rings