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SciFi & Fantasy Art / Gallery 19 of 884 / Terry .A. Ernest / Picture 9 of 55 / Gandalf and the Balrog

"Gandalf and the Balrog" by Terry .A. Ernest

SF&F Picture 9 out of 55 by Terry .A. Ernest

SciFi and Fantasy Art Gandalf and the Balrog by Terry .A. Ernest


	A blinding sheet of white flame sprang up, the bridge cracked , and with a terrible cry! the Balrog plunged down into the chasm.

Date	Name	Comment
8 Oct 2003	Josh Skaarup	Loading... I thought he was 'Fire encased in shadow' thats not an exact quote
22 Oct 2003	Abigail Taylor Scott	Loading... I find it rather funny that so many people are trying to tell you how you should be drawing the Balrog...for some reason, I thought that people could interpret things the way they wanted. Even if someone imagined the Balrog one way, say with fire and such, it doesn't mean that EVERYONE imagined it that way. I think your picture is beautiful and well done. Nice job!
23 Oct 2003	Sheena R. Smith	Loading... First of all, wicked perspective. Second, I love the power you can feel in this picture. Also, the light from Gandalf's staff and the quite black shadows create an excellent contrast.
26 Nov 2003	Anonymous	Loading... Great!I really like it.Looks just like i thought both of them would look like...your talented
23 Dec 2003	Yousuck, well most of you do	Loading... like the pic. Hate the Balrog
14 Jan 2004	TriForce Forever	Loading... @ abigail, yes there is alway's artist impression, but we (fans of fantasy and tolkien) would like every art about lord of the rings to be in tolkiens vision (or at least reasonably accurate to the books) and the books indeed mention the flame part a lot, so some of us are a bit disapointed about the lack of flame... So there Terry .A. Ernest replies: "Yes ...flames would be good. At one point the flames went out according to the book, but there still would have been loads of smoke...I`ll do another version of it sometime... "
26 Jan 2004	Dennis Johansen	Loading... Your Gandalf looks like Santa. Terry .A. Ernest replies: "Yes he does a bit...but then santa comes from old pagan times and may have been a druid..."
26 Sep 2004	Incanus	Loading... It's quite similar to a drawing by Ted Nasmith ( http://www.faszination-tolkien.de/galerie/nasmith/moria-balrog.jpg ). It's a good piece of art, thought I don't like the physical shape of the balrog. I imagine it more like a very dark, smoky shade, nothing you really can touch. Tolkien didn't even wright that it had wings, only that the SHADOW around the balrog began to grow into two wings. Terry .A. Ernest replies: "Only in the fact that it has Gandalf and a balrog and a bridge!.. as Mr Tolkien describes..."
26 Mar 2006	Kimberly mattia	Loading... "YOU SHALL NOT....PASS!!!" heehee. really great artwork. although you should have made the barlog alot bigger.
6 Jun 2006	Kristin A. Erickson	Loading... Great work! The bridge makes me feel dizzy. It seems so real, as if I am there. Terry .A. Ernest replies: "Cheers Kristin.. that`s exactly the affect I was trying to create ...thanks for visiting my gallery... "
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