Le site Sound Color Vibration propose une interview du célèbre artiste John Howe, surtout connu pour ses illustrations du Seigneur des anneaux.
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| Xavier: What are the differences between the Lord of The Rings illustrations and The Hobbit and which do you feel more inclined to dive into? John: Clearly the Lord of the Rings appealed to me more, but certainly because I had never considered the depth of the Hobbit – the world behind what looks (and initially reads) like a children’s story is rather harder to perceive. This said, it is entirely my fault as an inattentive reader, mistaking style for content and doing very little reading between the lines, lulled to a sense of complacency by what appears to be a bedtime story. (This is something that happens distressingly often concerning meaning in myth and legend, echoing the period where Grimm had devolved into edulcorated nursery material before Bettleheim’s pioneering research – the rose without the thorns, in sum, but that’s another debate.) The Hobbit is a fascinating glimpse into a world that changes and deepens from chapter to chapter, where the roots of the Lord of the Rings can already be seen deep in the ground. The implied tale of the Beornings, for example, has echoes of Scandinavian legend, and a deep sense of loss of nature, not the park-like inviting nature of the Shire, but a more savage and challenging view of the world, primal and fierce. Smaug is every western dragon, but shorn of the devilish attributes with which Christianity has saddled dragons, he is the true descendant of Fafnir and his brood, reminders of the inevitable doom brought by all-consuming greed. There is so much in the Hobbit that is either cleverly disguised, or possibly more plausibly barely glimpsed by the author, themes that he would return to in greater depth in the Lord of the Rings. This said, that approach to illustrating the Hobbit would be to deny the intended public, a much younger audience than Tolkien intended with The Lord of the Rings, a certain warmth and gentleness of vision in favour of a vision exterior to the novel itself. So, in that sense, I would distinguish between illustrating the book and exploring the themes Tolkien touches upon in the same book. The two could yield very different imagery. |
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