Lotr locations

This is one of the architectural designs used in the Lindon sets for 'The Rings of Power'. It is a pointed arch decorated with intricate tracery supported by carved columns. In the designs I made for Lindon I always try to find a balance between the organic randomness of nature and a manufactured look, so the architecture blends with the forest in a very subtle way. This illustration is the cover for the September-October release of Perspective, the Art Directors Guild magazine. It was a…

The Elvenking's Halls[1] were a cave system in northern Mirkwood, in which King Thranduil and many of the Elves of Mirkwood lived during most of the Third Age and into the Fourth Age. The halls were just inside the eastern border of Mirkwood on the north bank of the Forest River, some miles upstream from Esgaroth.[1] The great cave had many passages and wide halls and was more wholesome than the goblin tunnels in the Misty Mountains. While most of the Elves lived in the woods the king's…