There are no less than 3 sources of fire in that image containing a room full of extremely dry documents that are likely to all be hundreds to possibly thousands of years old. Librarians were much more lax in those days I guess.

That said, I suppose Gandalf had the ring of fire, so he could control the fire and prevent it from doing any damage.

Updated to to 0.19.3

Here's another picture which I believe is from the same author. This appears to be Frodo and Sam, so that means the bowl cut guy in the above picture is Frodo and Sam is the angry guy right above Grima. The two armored hobbits must be Merry and Pippin.

Hey, thanks for posting! Feel free to post any other LOTR art you have any time!

That's amazing! You're right, I must have read something like the following and combined the two in my mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_influence_on_Tolkien

In a letter, he wrote of his "bitter disappointment and disgust from schooldays of the shabby use made in Shakespeare [in Macbeth] of the coming of 'Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill'". He attributed his creation of a world containing tree-giants or Ents to this reaction, writing "I longed to devise a setting in which the trees might really march to war."

It has been ages since I watched that. I don't think I appreciated it as much when I was younger since I was more familiar with The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Rankin Bass cartoons. But, this just looks so unique and interesting that I should really re-watch it as an adult to see what it's like. The great thing about Tolkien's work is the wide variety of artistic interpretations. I love them all.

Thanks for posting!

Ok, I'll update it.

Thanks! I did a reverse image search, but didn't find that.

Apparently Lemmy doesn't like 32MB images. I'm going to resize it and update the post.

Ok, I updated it, but I had to resize to 25% of the original image size and convert to jpg. I'd like to share the original full size map in all its glory. I'll see if I can upload it somewhere else and link to it.

That's amazing. I don't recall seeing a use of AI where a drawn image is converted into a real one.

We know 3 of the Istari and only Gandalf kept on task. Saruman turned evil and Radagast just did his own thing. So, they probably set up shop somewhere and tended oliphants or something. It's possible they turned evil, but I don't think so given that we never hear about them. If they turned evil I'd assume they would have shown up during the attack on Minas Tirith.

If I had to bet, I'd say they were killed by the easterlings and Eru was so disappointed in their performance that he didn't bother returning them.

Yep, that's from the books. The Witch King wore one of the 9 rings made for mortal men. After some time this caused them to fade and become permanently invisible and entirely under the control of Sauron.

If Bilbo had continued wearing the ring, the same would have happened to him eventually. Although, given that Gollum had it for hundreds of years, it's possible the process just takes a very long time for hobbits.

Actually, it's notable that wearing the ring made Bilbo invisible, including his clothes, whereas the Nazgul were invisible, but not their clothes. So, I guess that probably means that they had faded to permanent invisibility, but weren't actually wearing the rings anymore.

Love how many different interpretations of these characters there are.

Thanks! It was a fun project. Some day I hope to go back to it and add more detail. Maybe change the timing on the early parts so that there isn't as much dead time while Boromir is the only one travelling. I'm always working on something, so it may be a while. I never did get around to adding The Fox, which was always kind of a joke, but I felt it needed to be in there. I also just realized I never put Goldberry in there either, which is a shame. There's always more to do.

I was listening to the Fellowship of the Ring again and realized that in Lorien they mention that orcs travelled up to Moria days earlier, so the orcs weren't just already in Moria, they travelled there, which means I should add them to the video.

The author of the atlas seems to have a background in map making because she also made a map book for Forgotten Realms that I have. I was organizing things and was thinking about what books to get rid of when I recognized the author's name and decided to keep it for that reason.

Hah, the "Hanged Man" is Frodo caught in Shelob's webbing! That artist apparently made 32 tarot cards. I think there are actually 78 cards in a tarot deck, any idea if they're going to do the full deck?

Thanks for contributing!

I'm curious why the other post I did today about Bilbo's journey got so much more love than this one. Perhaps it's because we see Bilbo in the other one, but this one just shows the map? I can see that. There's a bigger emotional hook in that one.

Personally, if you look at the making-of stuff I linked to, it's clear this is a really tremendous work of art. I'm really impressed by this one.