"Now it is a strange
thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are
soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are
uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a
deal of telling anyway." — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
And, of course, ugly is easier to draw than beautiful. You should remember that I was drawing stuff from The Silmarillion only about three of four years after it was published. There was not a lot of iconography around to help me visualze. Morgoth was like Sauron, Ungoliant like Shelob, Utumno like the Dark Tower. Orc Band started out as just an effort to draw variants of Orcs. In the book the Watcher in the Water was only a mass of tentacles; in my original picture I had a knobbly lump to suggest a head as a point of focus. The mouth is an artifact of the enhancement.
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