Extollager
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I suppose this is mine, Pauline Baynes’s design for the box of a British boxed set.
As a kid, I both loved that and found it quite disturbing.Before his music career, Jimmy Cauty (one half of The KLF) drew some posters, one of which was one of Athena’s best sellers for a while
The two archetypal 1970s posters: Cauty's LOTR, and the girl on the tennis court.As a kid, I both loved that and found it quite disturbing.
And honestly, could it *be* any more seventies?
Well I never knew that! I'd forgotten about the overlap between old techno and psychedelia, too. I really like Cauty's landscapes and architecture, although everyone looks as if they could do with a few days in bed.
I've always like the Alan Lee pictures, personally. The muted colours always seem right to me (likewise his covers for the Gormenghast trilogy).
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Lee's use of white to highlight is interesting. Am I right in thinking that the mural in Rivendell in the film of The Fellowship of the Ring was by Lee?
It's funny. I have clearly spent hours staring at this poster, but I can't remember where. Middle school reading class?I have the Jimmy Cauty Athena print on my wardrobe. I'm looking at it as I type
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I've got that book, some great illustrations and as @Extollager says Ian Miller for the cover.I don't know how common this book is, but it has two very different illustration styles within, both of which are well done:
The cover and inside line drawings are in a style that might be construed as the decorative motif of Middle Earth, while the paintings are more realistic depictions of events.
Apparently there are many artists who did the Bestiary:The first (cover) drawing looks like the work of Ian Miller or Millar. He did the cover art for a reissue of Ballantine's paperback of Joy Chant's Red Moon and Black Mountain. (The first issue had art by Bob Pepper, which I much preferred.)
Pepper:
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Miller:
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