I made some new cover art for the first two parts of "The Red Book of Westmarch". I decided having the plain red cases for all six edits would get kinda boring, so I decided to make some 2-disc cases - so here's the first for "The Fellowship of the Ring", designed to hold "Book I - The Return of the Shadow" and "Book II - The Ring Goes South:
http://rapidshare.com/files/210394459/FotR_Cover.rar
I wanted to keep the basic design from the single-disc cases (found on the DVD-roms - I'll probably upload them separately soon), and to have it feel sort of like a book cover. Also, I wanted to use art that matches what is seen in the films - for FotR, I decided John Howe's great painting of Gandalf would fit the bill pretty well. Even Glamdring looks similar to the prop used in the film! I wanted the blurbs on the back to fell like book blurbs, not DVD blurbs - so they're taken from my 1969 editions. The writing on the top and bottom of the case is the same as on the single-disc cases, is taken from the book's title page, and translates: (top) "The Lord of the Rings translated from the Red Book" (bottom) "of Westmarch by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Herein is set forth the history of the War of the Ring and the Return of the King as seen by the hobbits."
http://rapidshare.com/files/210394459/FotR_Cover.rar
I wanted to keep the basic design from the single-disc cases (found on the DVD-roms - I'll probably upload them separately soon), and to have it feel sort of like a book cover. Also, I wanted to use art that matches what is seen in the films - for FotR, I decided John Howe's great painting of Gandalf would fit the bill pretty well. Even Glamdring looks similar to the prop used in the film! I wanted the blurbs on the back to fell like book blurbs, not DVD blurbs - so they're taken from my 1969 editions. The writing on the top and bottom of the case is the same as on the single-disc cases, is taken from the book's title page, and translates: (top) "The Lord of the Rings translated from the Red Book" (bottom) "of Westmarch by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Herein is set forth the history of the War of the Ring and the Return of the King as seen by the hobbits."