2025 Calendar

Great, would love to get these all added to our Guide to Calendars when we have it ready.

I am incredibly impressed with Paula DiSante's Tolkien work - her "Berúthiel" is outstanding - but this looks absolutely and completely different. And it does no longer have an artist's signature... My apologies, surely, if I am mistaken - but am I the only one who finds this a little odd?

No sig as that would be on the sculpted piece in this fantasy museum. So we have name & copyright. Works fine.

No proper signature on a sculpture - with an artist of the quality like Paula DiSante?

I beg to differ.

Given the fact the only "The Secret Fire LLC" in Michigan is run by Lovette Dobson and there are something like ~40k "Lovette Dobsons" in the US llc databases...

I am getting suspicious...

Would anybody of the US collectors here know her personally? And could check back with her?

I messaged the Etsy seller as the owner of the shop was listed on the page as Paula DiSante and I became curious. Also, I suspected these were computer generated images and not real sculptures.

Anyway, I received confirmation that the seller is indeed Paula DiSante and that these are digitally created images and not real sculptures.

Her response:

“This is not actual sculpture. If it were, I'd be the second coming of Bernini. LOL. It is digital art.

And yes, I am the same Tolkien illustrator that you've likely seen in fanzines, since the 1980s.”

So take this as you will. I myself ordered a calendar…

Yes, I wondered if they were computer-generated. The Berúthiel one is very much like her drawing of the same subject.

She has the touch with Photoshop.