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Jenny Dolfen (born 1975) is a German illustrator and teacher, known especially for her illustrations of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.

Life

Jenny Dolfen was born in Bremerhaven, and in 2001, she received a degree in English and Latin at the University of Cologne. Dolfen lives near Aachen with her husband and her two children.

Dolfen has done artwork for several role-playing games, including Fuller Flippers' Quest Cards, Action Studios' Realms of Wonder, Final Sword Productions' The World of Erien and the German Das Schwarze Auge.^[2]

She is known for her artwork based on the Middle-earth works of J. R. R. Tolkien, chiefly The Silmarillion.^[3] Dolfen won the inaugural Tolkien Society Award in the category "best artwork" in 2014, for her watercolour painting "Eärendil the Mariner".^[1] Since then she has won awards in 2018 for "The Hunt", a depiction of Finrod Felagund going on a hunt with the Fëanoreans Maedhros and Maglor in Eastern Beleriand; and in 2020 the T-shirt design "The Professor", celebrating 50 years of The Tolkien Society, with Middle-earth characters and places within the outline of a pipe-smoking J. R. R. Tolkien.^[4]

Dolfen has made illustrations for George R. R. Martin's novel A Song of Ice and Fire, as documented in the 2005 book The Art of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.^[5]^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b Awards: Best Artwork, Tolkien Society. Accessed 12 February 2021.
^ Official site. Accessed 12 February 2021.
^ Gunner, Shaun (October 2015). "Jenny Dolfen announces new Tolkien art book". The Tolkien Society. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
^ "Awards - Previous Winners". The Tolkien Society. 29 October 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
^ Martin, George R. R.; Wood, Brian (2005). The art of A song of ice and fire. Fantasy Flight. ISBN 1-58994-218-3. OCLC 63172787.
^ http://www.georgerrmartin.com Archived 2012-02-10 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 12 February 2021.

External links

Official site
Jenny Dolfen on Elfwood, Epilogue, and Deviantart

Middle-earth

Works

In Tolkien's lifetime	The Hobbit (1937) The Lord of the Rings (1954-55) The Fellowship of the Ring "The Shadow of the Past" "The Council of Elrond" The Two Towers The Return of the King "The Scouring of the Shire" "The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen" The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962)
Posthumous	The Silmarillion (1977) "Ainulindalë" Unfinished Tales (1980) The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981) Bilbo's Last Song (1990) The three "Great Tales" The Children of Húrin (2007) Beren and Lúthien (2017) The Fall of Gondolin (2018) The Fall of Númenor (2022)

History of
composition

History of
Middle-earth

[1–2] The Book of Lost Tales (1983–84)
- Ælfwine
[3] The Lays of Beleriand (1985)
[4] The Shaping of Middle-earth (1986)
[5] The Lost Road and Other Writings (1987)
- The Etymologies
- Lhammas
[6–9] The History of The Lord of the Rings (1988–92)
- The Notion Club Papers
[10] Morgoth's Ring (1993)
[11] The War of the Jewels (1994)
[12] The Peoples of Middle-earth (1996)

Others

John D. Rateliff
- The History of The Hobbit (2007)
Carl F. Hostetter
- The Nature of Middle-earth (2021)

Fictional
universe

Peoples, monsters	Ainur Maiar Balrogs Wizards Valar Dragons Ancalagon Smaug Dwarves Eagles Elves Half-elven Noldor Sundering Ents Hobbits Men Beornings Drúedain Dúnedain Orcs Trolls
Characters	First and Second Ages Celebrimbor Eärendil and Elwing Elendil Fëanor Fingolfin Finwë and Míriel Gil-galad Húrin Isildur Lúthien and Beren Melian Morgoth Thingol Tuor and Idril Túrin Turambar Ungoliant Third Age Elrond Galadriel Gandalf Glorfindel Goldberry Gollum Saruman Sauron Tom Bombadil
Places	First and Second Ages Beleriand Númenor Valinor Third Age Bree Esgaroth Gondor Harad Isengard Lonely Mountain Lothlórien Mirkwood Mordor Moria Rivendell Rohan The Shire Bag End
Objects	Mithril Palantír Red Book of Westmarch Rings of Power One Ring Silmarils Two Trees of Valinor List of weapons and armour

Analysis

Elements	Artwork Family trees Heraldry Languages Adûnaic Black Speech Elvish Quenya Sindarin Khuzdul Valarin Westron Maps Tolkien's poetry Scripts Cirth Sarati Tengwar
Themes	Anachronism Ancestry as guide to character Architecture Christianity Cosmology Round World dilemma Death and immortality Decline and fall Dreams and visions Economy England Environmentalism Evil First World War Forests Frame stories Hell Heroism Light Luck and fate Magic Mental illness Modernism Moral dilemma Music Naming of weapons Northern courage Old Straight Road Paganism Plants Psychological journeys Quests Sound and language Time Trees
Literary	Tolkien's impact on fantasy Influences Beowulf Celtic Classical world Finnish language and literature Medieval Modern Norse Philology Shakespeare Prose style Ambiguity A mythology for England
Geographic	The Atlas of Middle-earth Journeys of Frodo A Map of Middle-earth

Adaptations,
legacy

Artists	Pauline Baynes Cor Blok Anke Eißmann Brothers Hildebrandt Jenny Dolfen Mary Fairburn Donato Giancola John Howe Tove Jansson Alexander Korotich Alan Lee Tom Loback Margrethe II of Denmark Ted Nasmith
Composers	Bo Hansson Johan de Meij Symphony No. 1 The Lord of the Rings Howard Shore Music of The Lord of the Rings film series Music of The Hobbit film series Music of The Rings of Power TV series Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth
Settings	Donald Swann The Road Goes Ever On Poems and Songs of Middle Earth The Tolkien Ensemble An Evening in Rivendell A Night in Rivendell At Dawn in Rivendell Leaving Rivendell
Other media	Impact Middle-earth Enterprises Works inspired by Tolkien Fan fiction Film Calendars Video games Things named after Tolkien and his works

Literary
criticism

Life

See also

References

External links