Jenny Dolfen
Jenny Dolfen (born 1975) is a German illustrator and teacher, known especially for her illustrations of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
Life
[edit]Jenny Dolfen was born in Bremerhaven, and in 2001, she received a degree in English and Latin at the University of Cologne. Dolfen lives near Aachen with her husband and her two children.
Dolfen has done artwork for several role-playing games, including Fuller Flippers' Quest Cards, Action Studios' Realms of Wonder, Final Sword Productions' The World of Erien and the German Das Schwarze Auge.[2]
She is known for her artwork based on the Middle-earth works of J. R. R. Tolkien, chiefly The Silmarillion.[3] Dolfen won the inaugural Tolkien Society Award in the category "best artwork" in 2014, for her watercolour painting "Eärendil the Mariner".[1] Since then she has won awards in 2018 for "The Hunt", a depiction of Finrod Felagund going on a hunt with the Fëanoreans Maedhros and Maglor in Eastern Beleriand; and in 2020 the T-shirt design "The Professor", celebrating 50 years of The Tolkien Society, with Middle-earth characters and places within the outline of a pipe-smoking J. R. R. Tolkien.[4]
Dolfen has made illustrations for George R. R. Martin's novel A Song of Ice and Fire, as documented in the 2005 book The Art of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.[5][6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Awards: Best Artwork, Tolkien Society. Accessed 12 February 2021.
- ^ Official site. Accessed 12 February 2021.
- ^ Gunner, Shaun (October 2015). "Jenny Dolfen announces new Tolkien art book". The Tolkien Society. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ^ "Awards - Previous Winners". The Tolkien Society. 29 October 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- ^ Martin, George R. R.; Wood, Brian (2005). The art of A song of ice and fire. Fantasy Flight. ISBN 1-58994-218-3. OCLC 63172787.
- ^ http://www.georgerrmartin.com Archived 2012-02-10 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 12 February 2021.
External links
[edit]- Official site
- Jenny Dolfen on Elfwood, Epilogue, and Deviantart
