Biro Bela on Nostr: Frank Frazetta’s “Gollum” Art (1973). Frazetta’s depiction of the corrupted ...

Frank Frazetta’s “Gollum” Art (1973). Frazetta’s depiction of the corrupted Hobbit once known as Smeagol uses browns and dark greens to suggest the eerie ill-lit subterranean cave pool in which readers first meet him. Frazetta created a justifiably revered portfolio of LOTR pen-and-ink masterpieces in his 1970s heyday-but this is the ONLY painting he ever created from Tolkien’s hugely popular book (and later film) epic.