On Sunday 08 January 2006 10:21 pm, Robin Netherton wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote: > > > My other calendar (I keep two) is Tolkien -- his original art, not the > > > Hildebrandt or movie stuff. > > > > Interesting. Where did you get that one? I don't remember seeing it. > > It has been in every store I've seen. The cover is yellowish background > with the big illustration of Smaug on the hoard of treasure, and the word > "Tolkien" at the top, and "The Hobbit Calendar 2006" at the bottom.
I don't remember seeing it here, and the picture on Amazon (that you give the URL for below) would not have sold me; I was thinking of line drawing instead of color art for some reason when I thought of Tolkien's own art. [snip] > > (I also display Japanese Imari china alongside my medieval art museum > posters in the dining room; the color choices and decorative elements are > very harmonious. A perfect blend, in fact, with the minium-orange and > lapis-blue French provincal print I made into curtains. I am a > period-purist in my historical reproductions, but not in my home decor.) Of course not. Our home has a bit of an international flavor too. > > OBCostume: Ouch, that's hard. There's absolutely no costume content in the > Tolkien images. He showed very few people, and these are very tiny. It's > mostly landscapes. Right, I know that. Even so, I was having trouble finding landscapish calendars I'd want to buy. -- Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Physics is like sex; sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."--Richard Feynman _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
