Portraits from the text

Portraits

The films settled what these people look like. I wanted to go back to the page and see what I would draw from the words alone. Tolkien described most of his characters more than once, and not always the same way. The Witch-king is a crown on nothing in one chapter and a grey-haired king in a silver helm in another. So these are not rulings. Each one is a reading: every passage gathered, one point of view chosen, and a picture made from that choice with the same system that draws the channel's episodes. The passages are on each page, so you can see where I went one way and the text left another open.