- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) (1 Oct 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0618640142
- ISBN-13: 978-0618640140
- Product Dimensions: 26.1 x 19.8 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 876,118 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Alan Lee's artwork has a beauty and lyricism about it. His art captured what I hoped to capture with the films.' Peter Jackson 'Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the 20th century.' Sunday Telegraph 'An extraordinarily imaginative work, part saga, part allegory, and wholly exciting.' The Times 'A grand piece of work in both conception and execution.' Daily Telegraph
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‘Alan Lee’s artwork has a beauty and lyricism about it. His art captured what I hoped to capture with the films.’
Peter Jackson
‘Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the 20th century.’
Sunday Telegraph
‘An extraordinarily imaginative work, part saga, part allegory, and wholly exciting.’
The Times
‘A grand piece of work in both conception and execution.’
Daily Telegraph
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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The description from the book jacket is rather accurate and I'll quote it here:
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In The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook Alan Lee reveals in pictures and in words how he created the beautiful watercolour paintings for the special centenary edition of The Lord of the Rings. These images would prove so powerful and evocative that they would eventually define the look of Peter Jackson's movie trilogy and would earn him a coveted Academy Award.
The book is filled with over 150 of his sketches and early conceptual pieces to show how the project progressed from idea to finished art. It also contains a selection of colour paintings reproduced in full-page glory, together with numerous examples of previously unseen conceptual art produced for the films and many new works drawn specially for this book.
The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook provides a fascinating insight into the imagination of the ma who painted Tolkien's vision, firstly onto the page and then in three dimensions on the cinema screen. It will also be of interest to many of the 100,000 people who have bought the illustrated The Lord of the Rings as well as for budding artists interested in unlocking the secrets of book illustration.
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Full coloured paintings are few actually. But this book has an amazing collection of pencil sketches. The chapters are sorted by places that appear in the book, in chronological order.
With the author's comments, it makes this book sort of a "Making of" book together with it being an "Art of" book. So that's really a plus.
It should interest concept and fantasy artists. Oh, and also Lord of the Rings fans.
There are more pictures on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.
-- Start quote --
In The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook Alan Lee reveals in pictures and in words how he created the beautiful watercolour paintings for the special centenary edition of The Lord of the Rings. These images would prove so powerful and evocative that they would eventually define the look of Peter Jackson's movie trilogy and would earn him a coveted Academy Award.
The book is filled with over 150 of his sketches and early conceptual pieces to show how the project progressed from idea to finished art. It also contains a selection of colour paintings reproduced in full-page glory, together with numerous examples of previously unseen conceptual art produced for the films and many new works drawn specially for this book.
The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook provides a fascinating insight into the imagination of the ma who painted Tolkien's vision, firstly onto the page and then in three dimensions on the cinema screen. It will also be of interest to many of the 100,000 people who have bought the illustrated The Lord of the Rings as well as for budding artists interested in unlocking the secrets of book illustration.
-- end quote --
Full coloured paintings are few actually. But this book has an amazing collection of pencil sketches. The chapters are sorted by places that appear in the book, in chronological order.
With the author's comments, it makes this book sort of a "Making of" book together with it being an "Art of" book. So that's really a plus.
It should interest concept and fantasy artists. Oh, and also Lord of the Rings fans.
There are more pictures on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.
25 of 28 people found the following review helpful
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Alan Lee, along with John Howe and Ted Nasmith is a very talented artist and depicts Middle-Earth brilliantly and with ease. This book is littered with astoundingly masterful sketches and a few incredible watercolours taken from the edition of the Lord of the Rings which he illistrated about fourteen years ago. The book deals with how he illistrated the book and, with the help of Howe and other talented artists, designed the Lord of the Rings films. The sketches are massively inspirational, and demonstrate just how good an artist he is. They are sensitive and detailed, some are highly refined some are very sketchy but all are beatiful. His detailed drawings of the realms and peoples and of course creatures of Middle-Earth are great to look at.
Alan Lee also writes an interesting text to accompany his excellent artwork, which is informative and insightful.
The only thing I would say is that it would have been nice if he would have focused more on telling the reader about illistrating the book, rather his work on the film. I say this because we can find out about that on the extended edition DVD's and in neumorous other books (such as Gary Russles equally brilliant 'Art of lord of the rings books')
Also the format of the book is rather on the small size and it should have been bigger.
However, this is an unmissable book by a extreamly talented artist whom without not only would we be without a fully illistrated Lord of the Rings, but also the films wouldnt be so visually impressive.
Alan Lee also writes an interesting text to accompany his excellent artwork, which is informative and insightful.
The only thing I would say is that it would have been nice if he would have focused more on telling the reader about illistrating the book, rather his work on the film. I say this because we can find out about that on the extended edition DVD's and in neumorous other books (such as Gary Russles equally brilliant 'Art of lord of the rings books')
Also the format of the book is rather on the small size and it should have been bigger.
However, this is an unmissable book by a extreamly talented artist whom without not only would we be without a fully illistrated Lord of the Rings, but also the films wouldnt be so visually impressive.
P.S sorry for any spelling mistakes.
28 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Alan Lee is a wonderful man and a pencil genius.
What Alan achieved with his drawings is what Peter Jackson achieved with his movies.
I was extremely pleased with this book - although a little smaller than I thought but beautiful - the drawings are very well printed on the paper. The typesetting are gorgeous.
Marvellous forward by Sir Ian McKellen.
The intro pages with his drawing of Middle-earth are very beautiful. WONDERFUL WORK! If you are a Tolkien/Lee/Jackson fan or like very good drawings, I mean Very Good Drawings and Illustrations, please do not hesitate - This book is for you. Enjoy it as much as I do.
What Alan achieved with his drawings is what Peter Jackson achieved with his movies.
I was extremely pleased with this book - although a little smaller than I thought but beautiful - the drawings are very well printed on the paper. The typesetting are gorgeous.
Marvellous forward by Sir Ian McKellen.
The intro pages with his drawing of Middle-earth are very beautiful. WONDERFUL WORK! If you are a Tolkien/Lee/Jackson fan or like very good drawings, I mean Very Good Drawings and Illustrations, please do not hesitate - This book is for you. Enjoy it as much as I do.
I really wish I could meet Alan one day...
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Brilliant gift
Bought this as a present for my husband who's a bit of a LOTR geek and he loved it! lots of sketches and a few coloured panels. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mrs A
Good
I can't tell you much about the book itself because I bought it for a friend although he seemed very pleased with it, the delivery was as it said it would be and the book had no... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Spud
Fantastic book
The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook is filled with Alan Lee's beautiful designs and illustrations, which are amazing to look at, not just because of their quality, but because you can... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Grace
Great if you enjoyed *all* the special features from the films
This is a great coffee-table book I think!
The book doesn't contain many finished drawings, it's mostly sketches which are nicely drawn and well shaded. Read more
The book doesn't contain many finished drawings, it's mostly sketches which are nicely drawn and well shaded. Read more
Published 16 months ago by GogLlundain
A present for my grandson
Since the early fifties of the past century I am a admirer of Tolkien. Together with my grandson I have written, not yet published, a trilogy entitled The Golden Helmet, a fantasy... Read more
Published 24 months ago by J. Diepraam
A superb glimpse at Lee's work
The first thing to know about this book is that it is about Lee's artwork, not Lee himself. It contains very little text, other than that necessary to place the artworks in... Read more
Published on 29 Dec 2009 by Stephen Citynskyj
Lord of the Rings Art Sketchbook
This is quite simply a superb book compiling Alan Lee's art work for the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It is hard to image (now)how the three films by Peter Jackson would have looked... Read more
Published on 6 April 2009 by Funsize
The author could have told us more about his art.
The drawings in this book range from quick hasty sketches too highly polished ones with great detail, skill and finesse. Read more
Published on 1 Aug 2006 by B. J. Crossley
The Capturer of Light and Colour Alan Lea
This is an absolutely fantastic book with stunning scetches that will take you're breath away to paintings with beautiful elaborate figures and scenes. Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2006 by T. Harrison-Jones
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