Miriam Ellis art books
30 Apr, 2025
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2025-4-30 6:52:55 PM UTC
Book Release Day for Miriam Ellis - The Art of Mercy in Middle-earth
J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium provides twenty-first century readers with a much-needed haven from the busy world around them. In his mercy, Tolkien generously balances scenes of high drama with unforgettable pauses for the refreshment of both characters and readers. His work remains true to the themes of “recovery, escape, and consolation” described in his seminal lecture and essay, “On Fairy-Stories.”
This book offers a visual portal to these three merciful themes, which form the central subject of Miriam Ellis’s body of Tolkien paintings. Ellis’s artwork strives for faithful accuracy to the texts which she has been reading since childhood. The quieter moments in Tolkien are sometimes neglected in portrayals, but in them resides the beauty of Middle-earth. Focusing on those moments, this book is a treasury with which readers can relax and enjoying both the paintings and the brief but evocative essays drawn from the artist’s contemplation of memorable scenes in the legendarium and the many details of the paintings. Like The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, this book should be a source of recovery, escape, and consolation for the reader.
Miriam Ellis is a lifelong Tolkien reader, award-winning fine artist, and published illustrator whose art has appeared in magazines, major fandom YouTube channels, calendars, and the Tolkien Society’s publications.
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A Shire Walking-Party: Paintings Inspired by Tolkien’s Little Folk
By Miriam Ellis
You’re invited on a walking-party through hobbit homelands, history, and culture in this lavishly-illustrated art book. Ramble at leisure through the green countryside. Visit major landmarks and little-known byways. Take your ease at rustic inns and walk right into welcoming hobbit holes. Befriend the locals and greet elves, dwarves, and others passing through the region, all faithfully based on Tolkien’s authoritative lore. More than 60 beautiful paintings by award-winning fine artist Miriam Ellis will make you believe you’re really there. J.R.R. Tolkien said that he felt most at home in the Shire. You will, too, after this gentle adventure amongst Middle-earth’s most charming folk in the places they loved best. This exquisite volume will not only solidify your knowledge of the hobbits, but will draw your attention to fascinating facts about them which you may have overlooked. Expect an interactive walk, filled with signposts along the way featuring fun trivia and questions for your personal contemplation. Bring a sturdy staff, a hearty appetite, and enter an immersive experience of life in the Shire that you’ll want to return to again and again.
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