merdoug
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Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2004 6:44 pm |
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Beautiful painting of the Farthest Shore
I'm sorry for this newbie opening up a new topic, but I just had to tell you about this book cover that I saw today. I guess I'll have to buy the book now. I think it was the new cover for the Silmarillion. It showed the part of Valinor where one first sails up to; I forget the name of the area, but it's that "far green country". Anyway, I can only describe it as a place I would like to be after I die. It struck me that much. The green land that has tall hills that one can look out from; the shining white buildings. It is such a moving piece of art.
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rowanberry
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Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 1:37 pm |
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You probably mean the first cover on [url=http://users.telerama.com/~taliesen/tolkien/s_ut_home_editions.html]
this page
[/url]? It really is beautiful. I've seen a larger version of it somewhere, but can't find it at the moment - for some reason, it's not on Ted Nasmith's own website.
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merdoug
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Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 3:30 pm |
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Yep! That's the one. 
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Giliath
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merdoug
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 6:36 pm |
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Thanks for the link
Thanks for the link, Giliath! Now I won't have to buy the book. So thats Numenor, huh? I was looking at that tower and thought it was that tower that they were supposed to see when they first come up on the Undying Lands. I haven't read the Silmarillion for a while and Valinor is kind-of fuzzy now. Wasn't there an island where some of the "sea" Elves live, and the light of the two trees shown out on them from between the mountains that were raised up in Valinor? And that "terrible and beautiful" tower that mortal sailors see when they, by accident, take the straight path? And wasn't there some munchkins in there somewhere? (just kidding).
I was joking with a LOTR friend of mine during Christmas that I saw little name tags on the Elves working for Santa: one read "Feanor", one read "legolas",..etc.
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Giliath
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Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2004 10:00 pm |
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The island you're thinking of is Tol Eressëa-The Lonely Isle. Originally of the shores of Beleriand Ulmo uprooted it to bring the Elves over the sea when they were first summoned to Valinor after thier awakening. It was then anchored in sight of the shores of the Blessed realm and removed with it when the world was changed and made round. It is where the Eldar remove to when they leave Middle Earth and they can then go on to Valinor if they wish. There is a tower in the haven of Avallónë, the first thing a mariner sees sailing to the Undying lands.
You should read the Sil again if you get the chance. It's an intensely beautiful book full of such sweeping depth and magic I can barely stop reading it along with LOTR. It's like the mob, I start reading something else and then get pulled right back into it 
I'd love to have a print of that painting to hang up. The book itself is a bit too expensive for me right now, but I'm dying for a copy. There are so many other great illustrations in it. Head over to
www.tednasmith.com
for some of the others if you didn't flip through the rest when you saw the cover.
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