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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1283165" data-attributes="member: 2205">Who's copying who?&nbsp; Orc costume design, not to mention most of the principle photography for the movies, was well underway when 3e came out.&nbsp; Besides, LOTR movie orcs and the pictures of 3e orcs have very little in common anyway; 3e orcs are very Warhammer-ish in illustration.I think that's definately an overstatment.&nbsp; For one thing, no, nobody on the LotR production team also did work for D&amp;D.&nbsp; The closest thing you can find to that statement being true is that Michael Kaluta (and maybe someone else too, although he's the only one I know of) did a LotR calendar one year and he also freelances occasionally for D&amp;D.&nbsp; Most of the big names in Tolkien illustration: John Howe, Alan Lee, even Darrell K. Sweet, etc. (you know, anyone who's illustrated a book cover or otherwise can be considered &quot;official LOTR books&quot; as you say) have never worked for D&amp;D, and in the case of many of them, I happen to know that they probably know very little if anything about it either.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 1283165, member: 2205"] Who's copying who? Orc costume design, not to mention most of the principle photography for the movies, was well underway when 3e came out. Besides, LOTR movie orcs and the pictures of 3e orcs have very little in common anyway; 3e orcs are very Warhammer-ish in illustration. I think that's definately an overstatment. For one thing, no, nobody on the LotR production team also did work for D&D. The closest thing you can find to that statement being true is that Michael Kaluta (and maybe someone else too, although he's the only one I know of) did a LotR calendar one year and he also freelances occasionally for D&D. Most of the big names in Tolkien illustration: John Howe, Alan Lee, even Darrell K. Sweet, etc. (you know, anyone who's illustrated a book cover or otherwise can be considered "official LOTR books" as you say) have never worked for D&D, and in the case of many of them, I happen to know that they probably know very little if anything about it either. [/QUOTE]

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