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My interpretation of the Balrog, Durin’s Bane from Lord of the Rings. I stuck a bit to the movie’s look, but made him a bit more bat like and more smoke than fire. Think Smaug is next. “You shall not pass!”
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Mood: Joy ~germanvisitor Oct 12, 2012
It's funny how no Balrog I have ever seen looks like the description in the book. :giggle:
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*AngelaRizza Oct 12, 2012  Professional General Artist
Haha, yea the movie one was just very awesome, and I remember when I was researching on the literary one, it was somewhat vague and tons of people were fighting over whether or not it had wings.
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~germanvisitor Oct 12, 2012
While I still find all Balrogs awesome there are a lot of things in the movies I'm not cool with. :-/
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*AngelaRizza Oct 12, 2012  Professional General Artist
Do you have any good books to recommend where I can read more about the literary Tolkien world and it's culture/creatures?
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~germanvisitor Oct 12, 2012
I guess that applies to every Tolkin book. ;-) Or are you talking about some more... condensed books?
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*AngelaRizza Oct 12, 2012  Professional General Artist
Like, a book explaining everything about the worlds I guess, maybe with more descriptions on species or races too. I've heard about The Similarion but wasn't sure if that was just a prequel story or if it actually explained a lot more about everything.
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~germanvisitor Oct 13, 2012
I have heard the Simarilion is mostly background on Middleearth mythology.
History of Middleearthare mostly short stories about important people from about Melkor's war.
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~Odomi2 Jul 16, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
Some of your works remind me to Ian Miller:
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Check him out if you don´t know him, I think that you may enjoy.
And good job :)
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*AngelaRizza Jul 16, 2012  Professional General Artist
Oooo, never heard of him but thanks for the share, I'll have to look him up more.
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~WildeMoon Apr 12, 2012  Professional Interface Designer
This is just stunning!
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