I have wanted to do this piece for a long time but I couldn't get the concept just right. The other artist renderings of the inside of Beorn's Hall that I have seen have either been way too detailed and all that wood planking looked like match sticks or the colors are all muddied up. The coloring is a challenge because Tolkien describes it as made entirely of timbers with a central fire and platforms at the side. So, I think my stylized version helps a lot to simplify the vision and control all those woody timbers and muddy browns. Here then is my version of ...
Beorn's Hall
Phyllis after looking at this image again I have now only just understood the smoke up in the rafters escaping in the smoke hole. Wonderful!
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