When you write ‘hagiography’, do you perhaps mean ‘iconography’? I always took hagiography to mean relating to the lives of saints, where iconography is the use and interpretation of symbols.

Really interesting!

'Frodo caught in the Barrow-downs I'

'The Oliphaunt'

'Battle of the Hornburg II'

'Frodo caught by Shelob'

Me too, Blok is my favourite Tolkien illustrator, and Tolkien himself appreciated them too.

This is a great book that reproduces all his artworks available (a few are in unknown private hands):
tolkiengateway.net/wiki/A_Tolki...

I like to think of the writing attributed to Jan Van Eyck on his alleged self portrait, “As best I can”.

Or something my bookmaking teacher would say: “Flaws are intrinsic to the hand process”.

Oil pastel drawing I did along with my advanced art class. The task was to create a quick collage without a preconceived plan, then upscale using oil pastel. My subject is Daniel Home, a medium/spiritualist from the 1800s.

My favorite game soundtrack for sure.