Middle-Earth Tours

Tour 3: The Artists of Middle-Earth

Art from the Movies, Part 4:
Character Studies
Art from the Movies includes most of the images from the "old" official movie site, which appears to have vanished for the time being (although Rolozo Tolkien has full-sized copies); images currently available on http://www.lordoftherings.net; and some of the choicest "spy" shots, etc., available on the web.

This page of Art from the Movies focuses on characters: "head shots" and posed pictures of the actors in costume. We'll begin with some photos from the official site.


Viggo Mortenson as Aragorn,
from the official movie site
Cate Blanchett as Galadriel,
from the official movie site
Bernard Hill as Théoden,
from the official movie site

Karl Urban as Éomer,
from the official movie site
John Noble as Denethor,
from the official movie site
Boromir, played by Sean Bean, from the official movie site

Frodo and Sam, from the official movie site
Gandalf in the October 2000 Vanity Fair, pic courtesy of ringbearer.org

Orlando Bloom as Legolas, from lotr.wz.cz

Gimli, image from the Norwegian site VGNett
Arwen in the October 2000 Vanity Fair, pic courtesy of ringbearer.org
Andy Serkis as Sméagol, from the Cannes film book on the official movie site

an image from the limited edition New Line calendar
John Rhys-Davies as Gimli, from the limited edition 2001 New Line movie calendar
Pippin in the October 2000 Vanity Fair, pic courtesy of ringbearer.org

closeup of Sam from the Vanity Fair picture
Merry in the October 2000 Vanity Fair, pic courtesy of ringbearer.org
Galdriel, pic courtesy of lotr.wz.cz

Elrond, pic from
theonering.net
Aragorn in the October 2000 Vanity Fair, pic courtesy of ringbearer.org
David Weatherley as Barliman Butterbur, from the official movie site

spy photo from theonering.net
Viggo Mortenson as Strider, from the official movie site
image from a Houghton-Mifflin
book cover

Legolas, image courtesy of theonering.net
a widely reproduced movie pic
image from a Decipher trading
card, via theonering.net

image from a Decipher
trading card
image from a Decipher trading
card, via theonering.net

Legolas, courtesy of theonering.net
Mirando Otto as Éowyn,
from theonering.net.
calendar image courtesy of Elbakin

The White Rider, image from
the official movie site
image from the official movie site
David Wenham as Faramir, from
Decipher.com

image from theonering.net
pic from an unknown source
Full-size versions of most of these pictures are on display at the official LotR movie site and theonering.net.