OK, now, I kinda want a LOTR TV series based on these artworks. With muppets and mate paintings, no CGI. Oh, and directed by @joannsfar.
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You should like this one
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Thank you, I had no idea this movie existed! Now, I was thinking more Dark Crystal and less, well, Soviet!
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I love that last one
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Is the image in green a IMP ?
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That's Treebeard! Always like the Hildebros but they made Treebeard look like a Fabulous Furry Freak brother in this image

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Ah ..... I get it , that's what I thought but I wanted confirmation
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I lived these stories through the Brothers Hildebrandt!
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People call these low-brow, They're stylistically cinematographically beautiful depictions of the Hobbit in the 70's! Ahead of their time!
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There's a really great making-of book "The Tolkein Years" that shows their gathering of reference photos, mostly of friends dressed up!
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The Rankin & Bass Hobbit will always form my mental image of the characters, but the bros' Smaug painting is my favorite Smaug of all Smaugs
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Way back in the olden days, I had calendars with their art
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Never cared for these guys' work.
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