Tolkien art/illustration, bookcovers--funny!

Eruanna

This has some R-rated commentary on book covers and such from a LJ poster (you have to scroll to the top of the page to see the art):

http://www.livejournal.com/users/aervir/9990.html?view=33286#t33286

and this is some old book covers from bygone times:

http://users.telerama.com/~taliesen/tolkien/oop/ace.html

http://users.telerama.com/~taliesen/tolkien/oop/old_ballantine.html

Funny/interesting comments made by fans.

--Eruanna, always up for a laugh Wink

DragonEyes · Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 35

now am normally just a lurker...but I couldn't help it...

ROFL

*pig snort* the guy who drew luthien must have been high on smthg Crazy

oh and the sam one....he must have confused snowwhite with LoTR ......

left to my own devices I would have drawn worse Laughing

Monarchsnake · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:35 am Post subject:

I almost litterly died from laughing. No, I'm serious. I was trying to catch my breath as if I had run across the Riddermark for three days.

Gimli: WITH NO FOOD!!

I will never ever picture the Valar as big crazy looking monsters.

Ulmo is one of my favorite Valar, and I've always visioned him with long flowing white hair, holding a white staff with a blue orb on top of the staff, with wooden type looking white reefs surrounding it, looking generally like a bit of a tall elf.

*shudders* Those pictures really scared me, but had me laughing at the same time. And Why In the world would warriors wear no pants!? XDDD

Monarchsnake~

Vilwarin · Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Posts: 227 Location: Annúminas

I laughed so very hard at this! "Gondor has no pants, Gondor needs no pants!" What I whish I had never seen was the Wedding of Aragorn and Arwen. If it is possible to have a picture as enemy, it would surely be that one!
Beautiful Luthien training for the next Hawaii Bikini competition being watched by Robin Hood.
Loved the picture of the First meeting of Aragorn and Arwen. Robin - oh my God I lost my trousers - Hood in his youth. Hm, wait, what about a challenge for the first image. Want to know about that strategically placed hat of his and the absence of trousers. Some dirty mind could surely write a good smutty story about it´.

Eyborg · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:40 pm Post subject:

LOL!

Luthien the stripper! Twisted Evil

And Ulmo sure is ugly... Laughing

Thanks Eruanna, you made my day!!! Very Happy

Ilmatar · Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 25

I think that the only thing I can say is that it is no wonder why PJ picked Alan Lee and John Howe to help him out....

I mean for chris's sake... the picture of Aragorn and Arwen meeting... since when did he look like a guy from Errol Flynn movies?

And the rest of the pictures... I do not even want to go there.

DarkElfChilde · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:43 pm Post subject:

OMG

HAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA. This is why I like anime and better artwork than...that, whatever that stuff is.

- DEC

Texasgirl · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:14 pm Post subject:

LuthienTinuviel · Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:31 am Post subject:

ghettoelleth · Joined: 06 Nov 2004 Posts: 1804

Dragon, welcome to osa, now get your assets over to the newbie board so you can be properly annointed. You must not deny us our opportunity to show you how utterly inane we can be.

TG, Ru, those are THE lovliest avvies. I'm feeling very aviegasmic tonight.

Ru mah darling, you are a constant source of entertainment, (I'm still coming up with stuff from the Russians). But this time, you've actually done physical damage. I honestly believe that I may be bleeding internally. Narfing kills boys and girls. Friends don't let friends narf. here's a little caption list for you, brought to you by the friendly folks from "Gaggingly bored and seen this episode of lost twice already." So here's some captions for you to take to the photo site should you dare to.

1. Aragorn: No really, watch. I moooove my hat away, and the light comes on,just like the refrigerator.
2. Whose bloody brilliant idea was it to put the green dye in the ocean to celebrate St Patrick's Day?
3. Those Barbarians really make their pinatas life-like
4. "Let my people GO!" "So let eet be written, so let eet be done."
5. "Trojans? No, no Trojans here. Hold on, lemme ask.... Yeah, Trojans are about 10,000 years that way."
6. Beren: "I do believe in fairies, I do, I do! You getting any lift at all yet Luth?" Luthien: "Keep chanting, Peter, I think I felt something."
7. Denethor talking on Palantir with Sauron: "Aw dude, you should see it, its so sweeet, not only did they buy the whole, 'no pants in Gondor,' law, they're wearing the pewter slop jars for hats. Man, I gotta get a picture painted of this dude, its choice!"
8. Mom, I told you that you shouldn't be smoking that damn hobbit pipe weed while you were pregnant. It says right on the kegger, "may cause birth defects."
9. Legolas: "Who cares about Gandalf's freakin' fireworks you guys, look at me, I'm levitating my horse!"
10. And so the grand pooh bah of the memphis chapter of the KKK wed the lovely Conchita, ending years of racial tension as Moses, Nathaniel Lewis and the entire troops of Monty Python looked on.

Eruanna · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:35 am Post subject: FUNNY!

ElennaElemirre · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:36 am Post subject:

OMG lol the commentary was one of the best ones ever!

Ive seen some of those pictures around and i remember thinking wtf? wtf

but the commentary just topped it off.

I laughed my head off. ROFL

Hey has anyone seen the cartoon version of LOTR? I watched half an hour of it once when i found it on some obscure channel on TV.
I almost died laughing. it was that bad. *hiding behind sofa* Hiding behind the sofa

apparently the ppl who did the animating decided Aragorn and Boromir should wear tightfitting shorts instead of breeches and Boromir should sport a nice viking horned hat.
.....and Legolas had a mullet Shocked