Re: Saruman's Tower at Orthanc, Isengard
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:43:54 -0000, "Anonymous" <gue...@anonymous.com> wrote: > >LGB wrote in message <3c7...@news.charter.net>... >>On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:05:53 -0000, "Anonymous" <gue...@anonymous.com> wrote: >> >>> . .. . >>> |\ || /| >>> | \ || / | >>> | \ || / | >>> | :\___JL___/ | >>> | :|##XLJ: :| | >>> '\ :|###||: X| /' >>> \:|###||:X#| / >>> |==========| <snip> >>>As I remember it from the film (which I saw weeks ago, and can't really >remember >>>very much about, save for the spiked top). >>> >>>Can anyone diddle it, correcting my poor memory ? >> >>Have not seen the movie yet. There is a pianting at >>http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/saruman.htm >>is this the tower in ? <snip> >The picture there doesn't really show all of the tower of Orthanc; it was the >top part that really struck me. Have you consider just doing the top part ? >I know that it's a bit thin, but then in the film, Gandalf was imprisoned on the >flat bit at the top, between the four spiked spires. In size terms, Gandalf >would be about the size of the windows I put in the tower's side. And it was a >very tall tower, so I thought the scale looked OK. > >Wasn't sure about the base of the tower at all. > >I did look on the net for a picture of Orthanc from the film, but I couldn't see >anything helpful. > >If someone could find me a picture of the whole thing (top-to-bottom) I'll try >and do better. google--search--tower of Orthanc, there are some versions of the tower on the first couple of pages. Ideas worth taking a look at. >But I don't think it's too bad myself, even if it's not quite like the one in >the film. > >Whaddya think of my shading ?? Whole thing's done by hand, BTW. have not practice shading all that much. but when there is a question bring the font size to 4pt and it is usaully seen lgbeard
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