A stein illustration I made for Taverncraft www.3point.com/ Working on the LOTRtheme was indeed lots of fun, we tried winged variations on the preliminary sketches butended up getting rid of them completely in the final. Don't get me wrong, I love creatureswith wings -I guess it's obvious- but in landscape canvases they're simply a pain in the assSince Balrogs' wings were already in debate, we decided to use that window, also we neededto avoid the Jackson's interpretation as best as we could because of license issues, so I cameup with an original Balrog and I have all the space for a massive bulkThis one took me around 40-50 hours start to finish so it was just like the old times, and itturned out great.Enjoy!---CS4, Cintiq 12WXNote: I have used reference for the gargoyles.----