Darkness/Light, for #TolkienTrewsday "Shelob the Great the last child of Ungoliant to trouble the unhappy world" and Frodo & Sam with the phial of Galadriel "the light of Earendil's star, set amid the waters of my fountain". Art by #JoanWyatt #Tolkien #LOTR @timbolton.bsky.social

Hospitality for #TolkienTrewsday 2 views of 2 places I'd like to stay Beorn's Hall & The House of Tom Bombadil. A stay at Yule-Tide with Beorn & any time with Bombadil (although his songs would limit my stay) Wonderful art by #JoanWyatt @miriamellis.bsky.social & #Tolkien colourised by H E Riddett

Towers for #TolkienTrewsday Here's some of my favourite #Tolkien towers in art. A creepy Minas Morgul with it's rotating tower top by #JoanWyatt, Barad Dur by #RogerGarland cover of my 1st #LOTR & the White Towers n an ethereal scene End of The Third Age by #TedNasmith @timbolton.bsky.social

« The Lord of the Rings : Shelob », c. 1979

by Joan Wyatt (British artist, born c. 1934)
Illustration for "A Middle-Earth Album", 1979
gouache on paper, 50x75 cm

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #JoanWyatt #jrrtolkien #middleearth #lotr #lordoftherings #shelob #samgamgee #Frodo