"Rejection" by Anke Katrin Eissmann

Hello Anke.

Out of all your newest works in the past month or so, I believe this has to be my favourite. The technique showed is truly remarkable, and simply draws you in, and makes you look closer at all the detail. In this way, I always feel a greater appreciation for your work, because I can see how much concentration and focus is made into every little factor in it. As ever, Faramir looks beautiful here, or handsome I should say. But when I say beautiful, I mean it in the sense that he has a calm, reasonable aura about him, and very serious and stern. Basically everything that is described of him, you get down perfectly. I believe that this portrayal of him is nearly your best, just a bit behind the close-up of him in 'Questioning Frodo...' (which, by the way, was the painting which immediately put you up there alongside Lee, if not higher, when I first saw it).
The Hobbits too look perfect, especially Sam. His look is quite suspicious and mistrusting -- perhaps not to the extent that he would have shown Gollum. But I'm sure he's merely thinking about Boromir, and trying to simply size up his brother. In any case, that facial expression gets his character pinned down in one go. Brilliant.
As ever, the foliage is stunning, realistic. I can smell the sweet scents of Ithilien, and wish I were there! But above all, it has to be the clothing in this picture which simply astounds me, particularly Faramir's gear. The way that you've managed to match the hues of green in his outfit with the same differing hues of the vegetation around him is amazing, and really hints at the fact that as a Ranger, camouflage is important. Yet more detail that you continually impress me with. Anyway, keep it up! I'm looking forward to more in good time (perhaps a new Boromir painting would be nice sometime -- you know he's one of my favourites! A new painting with Boromir is already in the works, actually. Thank you very much for your comment.

The flash film is at http://legendaryfrog.com/movies2_temp.htm
under One Ring to Rule Them All 2. The original One Ring to Rule Them all is also pretty funny, but not as funny as its sequel.Thanks for the link.

Ah, this is such a lovely piece! The composition, the poses, the expressions - everything comes together so perfectly. Wonderful job once again!
Btw, i stared at this pic for at least ten minutes with this eerie feeling that your rendering of Faramir vaguely reminded me of someone. Then it hit me: there seems to be something Jude Law -ish there. *lol* the eyes, maybe? but more likely, it's one of those weird tricks my imagination sometimes plays on me.
Now that i think about it, though - Jude Law would probably have made a perfect Faramir in the film ;-)Better than DW anyway. Then again, with this script, even the best actor wouldn't have saved the part.

ahhhh...how I really wanted this scene to be part of the movies....Even if I truly loved the movies (can't wait to see the last extended), I'm not sure if I can ever forgive mr Jackson for ruining my favourite minor (if he can be called minor) character. As mentioned before me the colours are very fitting to show him as the ranger he is, and Sam's expression is great. After all that has happened prior to this it's no wonder that he would look a little mistrusting.Thank you very much.

The One Ring to Rule Them All, ORTRTA 2 and ORTRTA 3 are at Newgrounds.com.

They also have LotR in 5 minutes which is insanely funny.

It's been said but i had to say it again; thank you for this scene! I loved the movies but Faramir's shift of characer was killing me. He's one of my favs and they made him into a creep. Painful. But this is beutiful and this is my comment for all your works coz i'm notoriously bad at commenting and your work is stunning. Your skill at watercolour is of great envy for me. As is our obvious patience. So to make a long story short congradulations for being one of the truly talented people of elfwood and if you don't mind i'd like to save a couple of your pic's for future reference and your defenatly being book marked under my favorites section.
Sorry for the long comment

This is a lovely pic and I assure you that I'm not making fun of this in any way, but I just had to get this out of my head. When I saw this I was thinking what a great depiction of the scene it was and how it was awful they left it out of the movie and suddenly, I get this picture in my head of Faramir, standing on the top of a mountain in a flowing red cape, and this dramatic voice, like the one for superman, says loudly and boomingly "Faramir's finest hour!" and I just cracked up! Hehe, I'm still giggling *snorts* Don't worry, I'm not trying to mock your piece, I just though this was an appropriate place to put it.
The expressions on your people are amazing, keep up the good work!

This is about my favourite Faramir picture by my favourite LoTR artist. It fits that moment in the book absolutely perfectly. I look at it whenever I want to rid myself of the nasty taste of movie Faramir. Please go on doing Faramir pics.!

this is a beautiful moment, faramir’s face filled with purpose as he denies the very thing that stole his brother’s life. and so the ranger fades back into the forest…
as several of my forebearers have noted, I too did not like faramir’s evilness from the movie. yes it was grand and all that he finally turned around, but the original faramir was too pure of heart to even be tempted by the ring. your work conveys this beautifully; his strength and his heart. I applaud that. I love all of your faramir pics, but I went crazy attempting to see them all, but this one really struck me. the ranger clothing seems to fit him better than armor or castle garb. I’ve always felt that faramir was pushed aside by most people and wanted to learn and see more about him…I think you have done a great job. *bows reverently*

methinks that though liketh Faramir overly much