A cavern in firelight
Grim firelight coming from afar or hopeful sunlight at the end of the tunnel? Depicting a haunting subterranean location was the intention here with a lost and lone figure crouched to the lower right. The scene is very much open to interpretation, it might very well be Bilbo before or after his finding of the ring and encounter with Gollum. Perhaps it could be another moment altogether. The emphasis is on giving character to the deep dark terrain below the surface of Middle-earth where all kinds of terrible things and fates lurk...
Source photographic elements: Fraisthorpe beach, East Yorkshire and stone/rock studies taken in Tunisia and the Sahara desert (April 2010)
Grim firelight coming from afar or hopeful sunlight at the end of the tunnel? Depicting a haunting subterranean location was the intention here with a lost and lone figure crouched to the lower right. The scene is very much open to interpretation, it might very well be Bilbo before or after his finding of the ring and encounter with Gollum. Perhaps it could be another moment altogether. The emphasis is on giving character to the deep dark terrain below the surface of Middle-earth where all kinds of terrible things and fates lurk...
Source photographic elements: Fraisthorpe beach, East Yorkshire and stone/rock studies taken in Tunisia and the Sahara desert (April 2010)
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