2e Orc/Goblin Art, inspired by LoTR/Hobbit cartoons.

 Let's discuss some 2e Orc/Goblin Art, inspired by Lord of the Rings/ Hobbit cartoons. 

These orcs or goblins are much like the style from the cartoons of old. The large almost toad-like mouths, the tiny noses, etc. 

LoTR, artist Alan Lee and John Howe

https://cvltnation.com/john-howes-tolkien-artwork/

https://alan-and-john.tumblr.com/post/53438235994/jrrtolkiennerd-a-long-tilted-valley-a-deep

• Yes, and many more to see  great stuff!
• Winged fell beast with Nazgul..

https://alan-and-john.tumblr.com/image/28699909997

• They helped do concepts for Peter Jacksons lotr movies. 
• See yt by “the art of storytelling” .. “the artwork that imagined middle earth” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjYtOCKIbp4

LotR - winged beast /fell beast

 They say Tolkein used "fell beast" to describe lots of random stuff. There is no real name for the winged beast, but this description is nice. It makes me think of DnD style Wyverns... they couldn't be true dragons because that'd have an obvious name, but maybe something close but not quite would work... like Wyverns. 

And behold! it was a winged creature: if bird, then greater than all other birds, and it was naked, and neither quill nor feather did it bear, and its vast pinions were as webs of hide between horned fingers; and it stank. A creature of an older world maybe it was, whose kind, fingering in forgotten mountains cold beneath the Moon, outstayed their day, and in hideous eyrie bred this last untimely brood, apt to evil. And the Dark Lord took it, and nursed it with fell meats, until it grew beyond the measure of all other things that fly; and he gave it to his servant to be his steed.

Interesting pterodactyl version. 

And I still think the AD&D Foulwings are modeled after them. At least when the drow were riding them. 

Description
They were very large with black, leathery wings, toad-like bodies, and horse-like heads. Their skin was black and covered in "horn-shaped, wriggling skin growths." They were clumsy fliers. Their most distinctive feature was their three jaws filled with razor-sharp teeth and centered around a single snout. Their eyes glowed red in infravision.[2]

That old LOTR poster I had in College, is actually much older and comes back

 “Lord Of The Rings” poster by Jimmy Cauty (1976)

Lotsa good info here: http://klf.de/home/jimmy-cauty-solo-projects/athena-posters/

Summary: that was the most popular poster, originally from 1976 by Jimmy Cauty, and it pops back up here and there (at least on Ebay). 

LotR cartoon, Troll, plus some influences on Peter Jackson

 UPDATE AND THIS NAZGUL SWORD SCENE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk47qO8rW4Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fRCXDsiKsA

It was hairy, but it also was green and scaly (where hairless) AKA it had reptilian feet and claws. It's face was not reptilian, had a turned up nose. The hairiness is funky and interesting. I will say I never liked the tiny-nosed short-legged trolls of the Peter Jackson movies, they just didn't look troll-like. My favorite monsters in the Jackson movies were some of the side-profile goblinesque orcs (bottom of this post) and later in the Hobbit movies: Smaug (though a bit too shiny or CGI shine or whatever).

Some scenes that influenced Peter Jackson, he must have some love of this cartoon movie, as do I:

Hard to see, but the Nazgul put the sword out in front of their face just like the cartoon, (then flip them around to attack in unison). 

Sidenote, these orcs/goblins look the best IMO. 

LotR Cartoon, Landscape to Mordor filled with Horror

 Check this out, about 3/4 the way through the movie when Sam and Frodo are trekking to Mordor. What the heck are these (gigantic mountain sized??) skeletal semi-undead mountains all about? They zoom into the screen/painting to then come to a close up view of Frodo and team, in a way that indicates these are just part of the landscape and are huge. Are they?

It looks super cool, but it keeps boggling my mind because I want to know if they are gigantic or people sized. A few minutes later in the movie they show small people-sized skeletons, cartoon movement drawn style, next to the Frodo party. 

Mines of Moria had some cool stuff too.

Links to good old school DnD D&D art, LOTR art, etc.

 https://www.blackgate.com/2011/12/28/art-of-the-genre-ices-middle-earth-roleplaying-part-two-angus-mcbride-1931-2007/

So Angus McBride did a lot of cool looking stuff (LOTR stuff). Who else?