LOTR Arts

Hi
some nice artwork
I especially like your Roger Garland drawing. Ironically I have one of these signed prints in my lounge. Have a few of his drawings myself. Wonderful
Well done

You say the website is to showcase your collections yet you have taken a lot of the book images from TolkienBooks.net - without any credit. You are also offering the super-deluxe Hobbit for sale in your store with an image that isn't your copy either. Have all the images been acquired from other websites?

laurel wrote:
Hi
some nice artwork
I especially like your Roger Garland drawing. Ironically I have one of these signed prints in my lounge. Have a few of his drawings myself. Wonderful
Well done

Thank you for visiting LOTR Arts - and for your kind words.

Many years ago, I bought the Tolkien landscape from Roger, then sometime later, the other drawings from him. For me they are the real treasures in my collection. Congratulations on having some drawings of his. He is a wonderful artist, and a passionate and generous Tolkien 'devotee'.

Many thanks again.

Hadiya

Thanks for replying and welcome to the forum but could you also respond to Deagol's comments on your site, Deagol runs TolkienBooks.net.

Deagol wrote:
You say the website is to showcase your collections yet you have taken a lot of the book images from TolkienBooks.net - without any credit. You are also offering the super-deluxe Hobbit for sale in your store with an image that isn't your copy either. Have all the images been acquired from other websites?

No problem but at same time Deagol raises a few good questions ?

Deagol wrote:
You say the website is to showcase your collections yet you have taken a lot of the book images from TolkienBooks.net - without any credit. You are also offering the super-deluxe Hobbit for sale in your store with an image that isn't your copy either. Have all the images been acquired from other websites?

Hi Deagol

The LOTR Arts Book Introduction gives credit to TolkienBooks.net:

"The images of books in this gallery are from TolkienBooks.net: An Illustrated Tolkien Bibliography and various other reference websites Tolkien Books

These images will be replaced with actual photos of the books and the collection display in the near future."

I will contact Tolkien Books to see if this is sufficient.

Hi Deagol

The LOTR Arts Book Introduction gives credit to TolkienBooks.net:

"The images of books in this gallery are from TolkienBooks.net: An Illustrated Tolkien Bibliography and various other reference websites Tolkien Books

These images will be replaced with actual photos of the books and the collection display in the near future."

I will contact Tolkien Books to see if this is sufficient.

Deagol is Tolkienbooks.net, it is Deagol's website.

Shouldn't you have contacted "Tolkien Books" first? Or are we following the Google approach to permissions/credit?

BH

I don't understand why you didn't just photograph the actual books in your collection?

If it was my site, I'd probably lose the main banner with the Movie imagery off the front page. It is quite sluggish and glitchy, plus.... I imagine that also potentially poses some copyright issues. I guess it depends on what you are trying to achieve with the site, but I personally find unnecessary motion and panning, etc, on web pages irritating. I'd much rather have a simple, clean interface. I'd say focus on the real content, more than the fluffy whizz-bang stuff that people might only look at once.