Jackson has explained how he originally recruited the reclusive Lee. Lee and John Howe were the lead concept artists of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films and were recruited by director Guillermo del Toro in 2008 for continuity of design in the subsequent The Hobbit films, before joining Jackson when he took over the Hobbit films project. Watercolour painting and pencil sketches are two of Lee's common media. He also did the artwork for Alive!, a 2007 CD by the Dutch band Omnia, released during the Castlefest festival. Lee made cover paintings for the 1983 Penguin edition of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy.
Another was Adrian Mitchell's version of Ovid's Metamorphoses-namely, Shapeshifters ( Frances Lincoln, 2009). Two were Rosemary Sutcliff's versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey-namely, Black Ships Before Troy ( Oxford, 1993) and The Wanderings of Odysseus ( Frances Lincoln, 1995). He has illustrated retellings of classics for young people. Non-Tolkien books he has illustrated include Faeries (with Brian Froud), Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock, The Mabinogion (two versions), Castles by David Day, The Mirrorstone by Michael Palin, The Moon's Revenge by Joan Aiken, and Merlin Dreams by Peter Dickinson. Tolkien that he has illustrated are the 1992 centenary edition of The Lord of the Rings, a 1999 edition of The Hobbit, the 2007 The Children of Húrin, the 2017 Beren and Lúthien, the 2018 The Fall of Gondolin, and the 2022 The Fall of Númenor.
Lee has illustrated dozens of fantasy books, including some non-fiction, and many more covers. Tolkien's fantasy novels, and for his work on the conceptual design of Peter Jackson's film adaptations of Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film series.Īlan Lee was born in Middlesex, England, and studied at the Ealing School of Art.
He is best known for his artwork inspired by J. Illustration, painting, conceptual designĪlan Lee (born 20 August 1947) is an English book illustrator and film conceptual designer.
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