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John Howe


Born
in Vancouver, Canada
August 21, 1957

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Genre
Art, Fantasy, History


John Howe is a Canadian book illustrator, living in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. One year after graduating from high school, he studied in a college in Strasbourg, France, then at the École des arts décoratifs in the same town.

He is best known for his work based on J. R. R. Tolkien's worlds. Howe and Tolkien artist Alan Lee served as chief conceptual designers for Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, and Howe also did the illustration for the Lord of the Rings board game created by Reiner Knizia. Howe also re-illustrated the maps of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion in 1996–2003. His work is not limited to this, and includes images of myths such as the Anglo Saxon legend of Beowulf (he also illustrated Knizi ...more

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John Howe Fantasy Art Workshop
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A Middle-Earth Traveller: S...
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Lost Worlds
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John Howe: Forging Dragons
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John Howe Fantasy Drawing W...
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The Knight With the Lion: T...
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Pictura: Draconis
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Jack and the Beanstalk
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“All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a little like a Hobbit who glimpses colourful strangers passing but has never left the Shire.”
― John Howe
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