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Tom Loback (February 16, 1949 – March 5, 2015) was an artist, known for his illustrations of characters from J. R. R. Tolkien's 1977 book The Silmarillion...

Janet Brennan (2015). "Notes: In Memoriam: Tom Loback in Mythlore". Mythlore. 33 (2). Article 13. "Tom Loback". Elvish Linguistic Fellowship. Retrieved...

name appeared more often in the Appendices than in the main narrative. Tom Loback, writing in Mythlore, attempts to evaluate the strength of the orc forces...

Gothmog, High Captain of Angband, at the storming of Gondolin. Illustration by Tom Loback...

Fëanor is pure Noldor, by Finwë's other wife Miriel. The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey writes that in The Silmarillion, as in Norse tradition and sagas...

Byrhtnoth whose foolish pride led to defeat and death at the Battle of Maldon. Tom Shippey writes that the pride is specifically a desire to make things that...

if they continued their rebellion against the Valar. The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey writes that Thingol forms part of the tightly-woven plot of The Silmarillion...

The fall of Turgon's Tower. Illustration by Tom Loback, 2007...

Heaven, though this is left vague in the Legendarium. The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey notes that in the Middle English source, the South English Legendary...

unusual wisdom by voicing caution about sending the Ring to the enigmatic Tom Bombadil, and suggested that the Ring be destroyed and that the Three Rings...

Rings; when he becomes king, he takes the name Elessar. Illustrations by Tom Loback, 2007 The wedding of Tuor and Idril Battle for Gondolin: Tuor kills the...

footnote, pp. 211–212. Tolkien 1954, book 3, ch. 7 "Helm's Deep" Shippey, Tom (2001). J. R. R. Tolkien – Author of the Century. Houghton Mifflin. p. 88...

and the White Tree of Númenor all embody the light. The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey writes that The Silmarillion is most obviously a calque on the Book...

it, as it could become foolish pride, like Beorhtnoth's. The medievalist Tom Shippey has described how it could be combined with a Christian view to suit...

red-hot eyes that emitted sparks and faces black as soot". The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey states that this both "helped to naturalise the Balrog" and contributed...

Beleriand. The family trees and resulting populations have been explored by Tom Loback in Mythlore. Jason Fisher, in the J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia, writes...

Rings Linguists Anthony Appleyard Helge Fauskanger Carl F. Hostetter Tom Loback David Salo Arden R. Smith Allan Turner Medievalists, Classicists Marjorie...

Deutsche Welle. Shippey, Tom (2001) [2000]. J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0261-10401-3. Shippey, Tom (2005) [1982]. The Road...

well done that, along with Humphrey Carpenter's biography of Tolkien and Tom Shippey's The Road to Middle-earth, it constitutes a third essential work...

worked on throughout his life, as a sort of coda. Tolkien scholars including Tom Shippey and Verlyn Flieger, while noting some good points in the book, roundly...