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My Lord of the Rings

My Lord of the Rings by Matt_Rhodes

added Sep 7th 2011
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I hadn't fully mourned the loss of MY Lord of the Rings until now. 
Peter Jackson's films were amazing and definitive and I love them, however it wasn't until I tried to read through the books again that I fully understood how definitive they were. Millions of dollars and hundreds of talented artists fleshed out Tolkien's world in a way my imagination never could. As I read I found that every character and location had been replaced by actors, Weta's sculptures, New Zealand's beautiful landscapes. It's all great, but it broke my heart to realize that mine was gone. 

This image is one last hurrah. One last artistic foray into my own vision of the story when Middle Earth was the Canadian Rockies I grew up by, the soundtrack was by Loreena Mckennitt and the players were all made up. 

It was funny and sad to see that even this attempt to recreate my image of the characters was tinted by the films. Oh well, I'll always have them tucked away on a shelf in my mind.

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  • chirping1

  • chirping1

    Mar 12, 2012

    My version of LotR will forever be the Rankin and Bass cartoon of The Hobbit and Return of the King. The backgrounds/landscapes in those cartoons are amazing. The characters could use work, but overall are pretty solid, especially their vision of Gandalf, even though he didn't have a hat in the cartoon and he was supposed to.
    What I really disliked about Jackson's version was the Fell Beasts. While, they looked incredible, they were further from the book than any other creatures in the movie. The book made it seem very evil and creepy, sort of like what Skeksis were in theDark Crystal, while the movie made them into just some more dragons flying around.

  • randyb

  • randyb

    Sep 11, 2011

    Sweet! This would be great to see in an animated film, done in your style.

  • inkblast

  • inkblast

    Sep 10, 2011

    This is a great piece - the treatment you used is also amazingly cool.

  • imphead

  • imphead

    Sep 10, 2011

    nice one Matt. Though they're from your noggin, it harkens ME back to watching the Bakshi films

  • TekuraMaeva

  • TekuraMaeva

    Sep 10, 2011

    beautifully done...but, now I'm intrigued to see your version of Middle Earth... :)