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Morgoth The Black Foe by rick ritchie

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:14:56 MST

Melkor was the most powerful of the Ainur, but turned to darkness and became Morgoth, from whom all evil in the world of Middle-earth ultimately stems and the ultimate antagonist of Arda. This scene is during the Battle of Sudden Flame, before he defeats Fingolfin. He holds Grond his hammer in his left hand but we only see the tip of its claw in this image.

Luthien tends Beren by rick ritchie

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:09:53 MST

The Tale of Beren and Lúthien is the story of the love and adventures of the mortal Man Beren and the immortal Elf- maiden Lúthien, as told in several works of J. R. R. Tolkien. In this painting, Lúthien and Huan, Hound of Valinor wait for Beren to wake after healing the poisoned wound Carcharoth the werewolf left him when biting off his hand. The Great eagles placed the spent couple on the edge of Doriath looking north past Gondolin, over Sauron’s Isle, which Luthien destroyed and left in ruin. "And at the last the eagles set them down upon the borders of Doriath; and... Huan came to her, and together they tended Beren, even as before when she healed him of the wound that Curufin gave to him. But this wound was fell and poisonous. Long Beren lay, and his spirit wandered upon the dark borders of death, knowing every an anguish that pursued him from dream to dream." chapter 19, The Silmarillion.

generation X by rick ritchie

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:26:56 MST

painted on stretched canvas. ~24x36in. by Rick Ritchie 1994

dragons proposal by rick ritchie

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:48:04 MST

A climber and a smurf meet a dragon at the cliffs.