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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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Book - Lord of the Rings sketchbook



Book - Lord of the Rings sketchbook
Score: 10/10  
Year:  2005
Harper Collins. 
ISBN 0261103830
192 pages 

 I finally ordered this beautiful sketchbook with Alan Lee's works for the LOTR movie trilogy, after having followed its price drop ever-so-slowly from over 30 € to 25 to 18,60 and decided it was time to complete our set and that this was a very good price which probably won't be matched again. 
It was released in 2005, 2 years after the completion of the trilogy and includs Alan Lee's sketched artwork for the movies, in a medium sized book 19,9 x 1,8 x 25,7 cm 




 Alan was a natural choice to work on the film conceptual art, as his drawings had already been used for Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit, and the Children of Hurin books.   






For information, the extended trilogy bluray boxed set includes interviews with Alan and John Howe, and tells on the process of finding them both and their artistical endeavours which are an integral part for this masterpiece. 

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