# Lupine Fan Art *The Urth list — 5 messages, 4 voices, 16 Sep 2004* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### James Wynn *16 Sep 2004, 11:57* >> PMorris33 at aol.com wrote: >> Has anyone noticed that there is not much "fan art" connected with >> Wolfe? I've seen the lovely archives of Tolkien fan art at Berkeley. >> At least a 20 year old collection. And I've seen the interesting >> collections for Ian Banks and Peter F. Hamilton. >> >> But why hasn't Wolfe inspired the same kind of fan art? >> >> Thanks Pippin > There was a book published some years ago, called REALMS OF FANTASY > (I think), written in part by Robert Holdstock (I think), in which ten of > the most famous fantasy worlds were described along with illustrations > by various artists, and I believe that Urth was the tenth world > depicted. It's been some years since I've seen the book, but I don't > recall being particularly impressed with the illustrations. > > (The other worlds I remember being in the book were Tolkien's > Middle-Earth, Moorcock's Melinbone, Le Guin's Earthsea, Donaldson's > Land, and Peake's Ghormenghast. That leaves four more that I can't > remember, though.) > > I know Pippin's question was about "fan art," but there hasn't been a > tremendous amount of "professional art" related to Wolfe either. This > Holdstock book is the only Urth-related artwork I've seen (other than > the covers, of course). > > Charles Ohmygosh! I complete forgot about this book sitting on one of my shelves. I bought it coincidentally about 2 months before I read tBotNS for the first time at a friend's recommendation. Each section has an article by the authors (Malcom Edwards and Robert Holdstock) discussing the topic. It seems to be out of print. Here's a run-down of the topics and the illustrations: Urth Illustrations by Michael Johnson The best fantasy illustrator of all those featured in this book IMO was reserved for "The Book of the New Sun." My favorite picture is of the Baldander's castle with the Hierodules' ship parked over it. It also includes: The Botanical Gardens Father Inire and his mirrors. Nessus from a distance across the Gyoll. (Not my particular vision of the city but well-done anyway.) This topic is actually the last in the book, and the article is decently insightful considering "Citadel of the Autarch" had only been released the year before this book's publication. The authors compare tBotNS favorably to LotR. The article also mentions William Hope Hodgson's "The Night Land". Middle Earth illustrated by Paul Monteagle Unimpressive illustrations in the world of available Tolkien fan art. Gormenghast illustrations by Ian Miller These are actually nice illustrations reminiscent of David Day's illustrations in "A Tolkien Bestiary". Hyborea (The Realm of Conan) illustrations by David O'Connor Unimpressive illustrations. But then, for me, there's no worthwhile Conan art after Frank Frazetta. Melnibone Illustrations by Mark Harrison Yeoman's work but nothing I would hang on a wall or anything. Earthsea (Le Guin) Illustrated by Stephen Bradbury Well-done but in a remarkably "dated" style The Land (Thomas Covenant Chronicles by Donaldson) Illustrated by Mark Harrison The illustrations are okay but mostly unremarkable. Nice picture of Lord Foul's towers. Mars illustrations by Dan Woods Very nice illustrations. Discusses: Leigh Brackett's "The Sword of Rhiannon" H.G. Well's "War of the Worlds" Phillip Farmer's "Jesus on Mars" E.R. Burroughs' novels C.S. Lewis' "Out of the Silent Planet" Bradbury's "The Martian Chronicles" and "Thrilling Wonder" Lost Worlds illustrations by Bill Donohue Discusses: A.C. Doyle's "Lost World" James Hilton's "Lost Horizon" H. Rider Haggard's various novels E.R. Burroughs' novels Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" also Abraham Merrit, Dennis Wheatly, Gary Kilworth, Richard Cowper, Robert Holdstock, and a mention of the French movie "Le Vallee" (which was unremarkable except for its Pink Floyd soundtrack) Atlantis illustrations by Chris Foss Two nice illustrations. I wish there were more. Discusses: Plato Thomas More's Utopia Sir Francis Bacon's "The New Atlantis" Abbe Charles-Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg Jules Verne's "20K Leagues Under the Sea" R.E. Howard's "King Kull" Jane Gaskell's Atlan saga Tolkien's "Silmarillion" ~ Crush P.S. I posted all of Charles' post because I wasn't sure how many had seen it but me. But its not my SOP :-) --- ### consuelo jalees *17 Sep 2004, 03:47 · follows James Wynn* > PMorris33 at aol.com wrote: >>> Has anyone noticed that there is not much "fan art" connected with >>> Wolfe? I've seen the lovely archives of Tolkien fan art at Berkeley. >>> At least a 20 year old collection. And I've seen the interesting >>> collections for Ian Banks and Peter F. Hamilton. >>> >>> But why hasn't Wolfe inspired the same kind of fan art? >>> >>> Thanks Pippin hello there, with regards to fan art, i have some home grown stuff here: http://www.thisoneis.com/artwork_01 http://www.thisoneis.com/artwork_02 please don't be too harsh with it, i am an amateur :) i was very inspired when first reading the BotNS and got the idea into my head to try and do some illustrations as if they were designs for an imaginary film of the series. something i intend to carry on with. kind regards, consuelo --- ### Charles Reed *17 Sep 2004, 07:49 · in reply to James Wynn* Crush, I'm not a big art connoisseur, but I do get a Tolkien calendar every year (going back to 1974), and I have to admit that I'm little bit a Frank Frazetta fan. > James Wynn wrote: > > > Ohmygosh! I complete forgot about this book sitting on one of my shelves. I > bought it coincidentally about 2 months before I read tBotNS for the first > time at a friend's recommendation. Each section has an article by the > authors (Malcom Edwards and Robert Holdstock) discussing the topic. It seems > to be out of print. > > Here's a run-down of the topics and the illustrations: > > Urth > Illustrations by Michael Johnson > The best fantasy illustrator of all those featured in this book IMO was > reserved for "The Book of the New Sun." > My favorite picture is of the Baldander's castle with the Hierodules' ship > parked over it. > It also includes: > The Botanical Gardens > Father Inire and his mirrors. > Nessus from a distance across the Gyoll. (Not my particular vision of the > city but well-done anyway.) > > This topic is actually the last in the book, and the article is decently > insightful considering "Citadel of the Autarch" had only been released the > year before this book's publication. The authors compare tBotNS favorably to > LotR. > The article also mentions William Hope Hodgson's "The Night Land". > Thanks for the recap. I looked through this book briefly in a used book store some years ago, and sort-of regret not having picked it up. I might need to look around for it again. > Middle Earth > illustrated by Paul Monteagle > Unimpressive illustrations in the world of available Tolkien fan art. > > Gormenghast > illustrations by Ian Miller > These are actually nice illustrations reminiscent of David Day's > illustrations in "A Tolkien Bestiary". I've got the BESTIARY, but have yet to read it. Sadly, I can say the same thing about lots and lots of books. (One of my favorite rhymes is from a wonderful little book called WHISKERS AND RHYMES, and goes like this: Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky. My pile of books Is a mile high. How I love them. How I need them. I'll have a long beard By the time I read them.) > Hyborea (The Realm of Conan) > illustrations by David O'Connor > Unimpressive illustrations. But then, for me, there's no worthwhile Conan > art after Frank Frazetta. Frazetta is the king. But have you checked out the new Conan comic book, published by Dark Horse? It's written by Kurt Busiek, with art by Carey Nord and coloring by Dave Stewart. The art is unlike any comic book art I've seen before -- you could almost describe it as "raw" -- and I'm really digging it. Everything about the book is amazing in its "channeling" of REH's Conan, and I would go so far as to say that it compares very, very favorably with Frazetta. They're only up to issue 7, so back issues shouldn't be too hard to find, and I'm sure a trade paperback will be out shortly collecting the first few issues. If you can spare $3.00 a month, you ought to check out an issue or two, although I believe the next issue is going to have a "guest artist" instead Nord. Charles --- ### Jeff Wilson *17 Sep 2004, 14:10 · in reply to consuelo jalees* > consuelo jalees wrote: >> PMorris33 at aol.com wrote: >>>> Has anyone noticed that there is not much "fan art" connected with >>>> Wolfe? I've seen the lovely archives of Tolkien fan art at Berkeley. >>>> At least a 20 year old collection. And I've seen the interesting >>>> collections for Ian Banks and Peter F. Hamilton. >>>> >>>> But why hasn't Wolfe inspired the same kind of fan art? >>>> >>>> Thanks Pippin > hello there, > > with regards to fan art, i have some home grown stuff here: > > http://www.thisoneis.com/artwork_01 > http://www.thisoneis.com/artwork_02 try http://www.thisoneis.com/artwork_01.html http://www.thisoneis.com/artwork_02.html ``` Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com Lead Playtester, GURPS Ultra-Tech for 4/e < http://www.io.com/~jwilson > ``` --- ### consuelo jalees *20 Sep 2004, 04:19 · follows Jeff Wilson* > In a message dated 9/18/2004 12:04:00 PM Pacific Standard Time, > urth-urth.net-request at lists.urth.net writes: > http://www.thisoneis.com/artwork_01.html > http://www.thisoneis.com/artwork_02.html > Let's put this fan art up on the official website. (Assuming that the > artist gives permission) > > Pip yes, that is fine with me consuelo ---