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John Howe: Roäc son of Carc

Kuva © John Howe

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Kuvaus (tekijä):

• Roac, Son of Carc
• Watercolour on illustration board
• 30.0 x 40.0 cm
• 1979

• I did a series of five illustrations from The Hobbit to partcipate in a contest at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. This was midway through art school, and participation in the contest and attendance at the annual Bologna Fiera del Libro per Ragazzi was practically mandatory. (Actually, it was a wonderful excursion every time. Bologna is a magnificent city, the food is - like everywhere in Italy - sublime, even for students with shallow pockets, and you could show your portfolio to practically every major editor in the world. We even got frisked at gunpoint once by the carbinieri, very exciting...) Needless to say, my illustrations got turned down. (I think out of half a dozen attempts, I was accepted once.) Looking at them now, I'm hardly surprised. Dwarves with cucumbers for noses, tank-top chain mail, grim landscapes and midgets with oversized feet must not have seemed appropriate to a jury. At that time, almost nobody in my class had even heard of Tolkien anyway... ("Tolkien? was he the guy who made that awful cartoon film?")

• The other four images:
  • Beorn
  • Bilbo
  • Gollum
  • The Death of Thorin

Lisenssi: John Howe on ilmoittanut kotisivujensa keskustelufoorumilla ehdot kuviensa julkaisemiseen muilla sivustoilla:

To put it in a nutshell, there are four conditions for use of any of my imagery on a web site (not including of course photos by other persons; in that case their permission must be requested).

• 1. That the use be strictly non-commercial.
• 2. That the work be properly credited.
• 3. That a clear link to www.john-howe.com be provided.
• 4. Last but not least, that the use of the image be in accordance with the image itself. This is perhaps hard to make clear, but I would refuse, for example, use of one of my pictures to promote ideas, concepts or undertakings with which I disagree, or for which the image's prime purpose is only to attract attention to something entirely different.

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