{"id":279,"date":"2016-09-06T19:47:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T19:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/?p=279"},"modified":"2016-09-06T19:47:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T19:47:14","slug":"the-lord-of-the-rings-cover-re-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/uncategorized\/the-lord-of-the-rings-cover-re-design\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord of the Rings Cover Re-Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was looking at all the different covers for the Lord of the Rings, I didn’t know which ones to choose. \u00a0There were so many of them. \u00a0The obvious choice was to use the very first cover that Tolkien himself helped design. \u00a0For being published in the 1930’s, the cover is a basic design. \u00a0If it were to have been published maybe even fifty years before the cover would be very plain with just the title and probably with a solid background color. \u00a0As it is, it was published in the 1930’s and as such, with the help and direction of Tolkien, the cover is a nice solid black with yellow detailing as seen below.<\/p>\n

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I had originally planned for my new cover to be dark in color. \u00a0Based on the book, and the movie which ultimately had no effect on the new cover, my new cover didn’t exactly turn out that way. \u00a0The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is very dark. Hence the dark colors. But when I was looking through photos to use, I didn’t come across any that I particularly liked. So it took some extra effort at home to find one that I liked and a way to design it. \u00a0I ended up doing almost the exact opposite of what I thought I was going to do.<\/p>\n

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I wanted to stick with the ‘old’ theme. Dark colors would have gotten me there, but just having dark colors can be interpreted many ways. \u00a0So I decided to be more direct and go with and old sheet of parchment, which the the story is written on – in the book. \u00a0But old. crinkled parchment isn’t enough. \u00a0Looking back through the previous covers I remembered that for the original covers for each of the three books, they all had their own distinct color. The first book just happened to be yellow. \u00a0And old parchment does tend to give off a golden yellow hue. \u00a0And The Lord of the Rings can’t be Lord of the Rings unless there’s a ring. So naturally I put one in. \u00a0Though not definitively a ring, it is more oval and in the shape of an eye. Sauron’s eye to be exact. \u00a0The font that I choose was because it looked old. \u00a0It was not the usual printed font and would give the cover some angle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was looking at all the different covers for the Lord of the Rings, I didn’t know which ones to choose. \u00a0There were so many of them. \u00a0The obvious choice was to use the very first cover that Tolkien himself helped design. \u00a0For being published in the 1930’s, the cover is a basic design. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheilaliming.com\/428DH\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}