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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 21 Feb 2002.
Re: Saruman's Tower at Orthanc, Isengard

Re: Saruman's Tower at Orthanc, Isengard

From LGB <nop...@nospam.nut> · alt.ascii-art · 21 Feb 2002 12:43 · View full thread · report
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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