Benjamin Harff, a German art student, spent a year creating a copy of The Silmarillion in the tradition of medieval European illuminated manuscripts. Most of the text itself is typed, but the elaborate calligraphy is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/26/j-r-r-tolkiens-silmarillion-as-an-illuminated-manuscript/Cartoonist Noelle Stevenson offers up a delici... ...s up a delicious series called The Broship of the Rings . You've never heard of the dwarves? It's probably...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/24/the-hipster-of-the-rings/I'm having trouble tracking down the artist responsible for this piece, so if you know, let me know in the comments. Well, other Van Gogh, obviously. I'm assuming that this is not an alternate Starry Night that he pa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/14/sauron-y-night/One would think that a basic understanding of... ...One would think that a basic understanding of The Lord of the Rings would be taught in journalism school -- especiall...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/09/new-york-times-sports-page-apologizes-for-lotr-error/redditor lulalai snapped this shot this morning. It reminds me (as well as a lot of other redditors) of the Eye of Saruon presented in the LOTR movies. Do you agree? Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/24/eye-of-sauron-in-the-morning-sun/In J.R.R. Tolkein's The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins became extravagantly wealthy by looting the treasure of the dragon Smaug (which he split with the dwarves). In today's value, how much money was that? Forbes' Michael Noer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/07/how-much-loot-did-bilbo-baggins-get-from-smaug/In Salon, Laura Miller writes about a novel by Yisroel Markov which tells the LoTR story from Mordor's point of view. Here's a summary of The Last Ringbearer: In Yeskov's retelling, the wizard Gandalf is a war-monger...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/28/retelling-of-lord-of-the-rings-imagines-mordor-as-victim/Peter Jackson has revealed that The Beatles approa... ...with a request to produce a movie version of The Lord of the Rings . Tolkien turned them down: [...]John Lennon w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/04/the-beatles-wanted-to-produce-a-lord-of-the-rings-movie/Instructables user RavingMadStudios made a cak... ...s made a cake shaped like the Dark Tower from The Lord of the Rings . The Eye of Sauron is a cupcake. The structure...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/03/the-bundt-cake-of-barad-dur/Andrea Newberry made deviled eggs that look like t... ...ed eggs that look like the eye of Sauron from The Lord of the Rings movies. The pupils are made with olives. You ca...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/13/eye-of-sauron-deviled-eggs/
