• pymn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    25 days ago

    I believe this piece of artwork was a major inspiration for Gandalf’s appearance in the lotr trilogy

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      25 days ago

      Howe did this in 1989, so actually he was the one directly riffing on earlier artists’ versions of Gandalf, like Hildebrandt, Bakshi and Rankin-Bass. Or just iconic images of wizards that go back centuries…