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““The End of All Things”

Oil on canvas, 13″x21″ wide.

Artist Commentary: Tidings fell befell me Saturday. Hearkening in the heaths, I sensed some wickedness wending through the Narnian woods. Dark seemed the dreams of the all the quick and the dead, as if some devilish doom bore down upon us all.

I packed easel and palette, and Brego and I passed lightly over the empty downs and onward to the Lantern Waste. There we paused, and Brego sniffed the spring air and shivered. But where we had halted, a flower-strewn glen glimmered in golden light, and I strove to cheer my spirits by sketching the sylvan scene.

Yet, I could not dislodge my disquiet, and ere long two figures appeared on the edges of the glade: a kingly knight and a white unicorn, who passed silently beneath the dappled boughs. Such a sight should have salved the saddest soul, but it was not to be. The twain appeared aggrieved and sickened in spirit, and I knew, as they passed us by, that they trod a fearsome and lonely path: toward what fate, I knew not.

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“Looking Homeward“

Oil on canvas, 13″x21″ wide.

Artist Commentary: I spent Saturday above the banks of the Great River. A cobalt sky set the snow-capped peaks of the Misty Mountains in crystalline relief, and I perched my easel upon the crest of a brush-strewn hill; surrounding me were the bleached bones of an ancient wind-felled oak tree.

At midday, I had sketched the glimmering peaks, when the light spring breezes died away and a hush fell upon the woodlands. Then came a crashing of undergrowth on the slopes beneath me, and ere I could bolt, a great grizzled bear emerged on the ridge and stood upon the very bole of the oak tree. Lifting his gaze to the west, the forest monarch growled and hurled an ursine curse toward the distant peaks. Then he departed, leaving me shaken, but unharmed.

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“King Under the Mountain”
Oil on canvas, 21″x13″ wide.

Saturday saw seething masses in the streets of Dale. There I hied to heed heralds and hearken to hymns; festival had come! And all the singing souls swarmed to Erebor, there to pass beneath the new-wrought Arch and into the Hall of the Mountain King. A great bearded lord espied me with my easel and ushered me to the front of the royal chamber; there I sketched the high seat and the cavernous shadows that made this space one with the open heavens, miles above us. Diamonds, I was told, were set into the very living rock; thus, stars would ever glimmer in the Mountain deeps….

And then, a hush settled upon us; King Thror himself strode the central aisle, calling greetings to the free folk, and like great Jupiter, ascending the steps and seating himself. Power was in his hand, and atop his scepter, radiant as the sun herself, flamed the fabled Arkenstone. Thus the folk of Dale, and of Esgaroth, and of the Woodland Realms, first beheld Thror, King Under the Mountain.

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