{"id":473,"date":"2009-10-21T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbicmsblog.reedbusiness.com\/elogic_660000266\/2009\/10\/21\/ickle-john-howe-talks-aboot-balrogs\/"},"modified":"2009-10-21T08:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T08:10:00","slug":"ickle-john-howe-talks-aboot-balrogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"Ickle John Howe Talks Aboot Balrogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sheer ridiculousness of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UOVuR7ksey4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this video<\/a> made me laugh out loud. Hope it does the same for you!&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.john-howe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Howe<\/a>&nbsp;(or, in his clay form,&nbsp;&quot;Ickle John Howe&quot;) is&nbsp;an illustrator best known for his renderings of&nbsp;Tolkien&#8217;s worlds. He and Alan Lee were the chief conceptual designers for&nbsp;the movies based on <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, hence the focus here on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Balrog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Balrogs<\/a>, and all the references to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gandalf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gandalf<\/a>. Howe&#8217;s beautiful forthcoming book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/lostworlds#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lost Worlds<\/a><\/em> is one of many titles we&#8217;ll be featuring on our store&#8217;s annual list of holiday gift recommendations for children and teens.<\/p>\n<p> <embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" quality=\"1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UOVuR7ksey4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><\/p>\n<p> What does the not-so-ickle John Howe ACTUALLY sound like? Watch this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGaxYZX-N3Q&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trailer for <em>Lost Worlds<\/em><\/a> to find out.<\/p>\n<p> <embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" quality=\"1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lGaxYZX-N3Q&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Now go picture Gandalf without a pointy hat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sheer ridiculousness of this video made me laugh out loud. Hope it does the same for you!&nbsp;John Howe&nbsp;(or, in his clay form,&nbsp;&#8220;Ickle John Howe&#8221;) is&nbsp;an illustrator best known for his renderings of&nbsp;Tolkien&rsquo;s worlds. He and Alan Lee were the chief conceptual designers for&nbsp;the movies based on The Lord of the Rings, hence the focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}