Roger Garland

Roger Garland attended Plymouth Art School and studied graphic design at the University of Wolverhampton, where he met his wife Linda Garland. Both graduated in 1970. Their son Seth Garland (born 1977) is also an artist. After graduating, Garland taught art at the Poltair School in Cornwall for a decade, while also building a career as an illustrator. His first collaboration with George Allen & Unwin was in 1981, when he was hired to paint a cover for the paperback release of Unfinished Tales. In 1989, he co-founded Lakeside Gallery with his wife, which permanently displays their artwork, including Roger's Tolkien-related paintings, to this day. Some of these paintings were part of the italian exhibition Tolkien: Uomo, Professore, Autore, that toured between 2023 and 2026. In his opinion, The Lord of the Nazgûl is his best painting, because it "captures the darker side of these works". He was also an honorary member of The Tolkien Society since 1994.

Cover art

• Unfinished Tales (1982 paperback)
• The Silmarillion (1983 paperback)
• The Lord of the Rings (1983 one volume paperback & 1988 one volume hardback)
• The Book of Lost Tales: Part One (1985 paperback)
• The Fellowship of the Ring (1986 paperback)
• The Two Towers (1986 paperback)
• The Return of the King (1986 paperback)
• The Book of Lost Tales: Part Two (1986 paperback)
• The Hobbit (1987 paperback, 50th anniversary edition)
• The Lays of Beleriand (1987 paperback)
• The Shaping of Middle-earth (1988 paperback)
• The Lost Road and Other Writings (1989 paperback)
• The Return of the Shadow (1990 paperback)
• The Treason of Isengard (1991 paperback)
• The War of the Ring (1992 paperback)
• Sauron Defeated (1993 paperback)
• Tales from the Perilous Realm (1997 hardcover)
• Tolkien: Uomo, Professore, Autore (2024 third edition)

Books

• Farmer Giles of Ham (1990 edition)
• Smith of Wootton Major (1990 edition)
• The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1990 edition)
• Tolkien's World: Paintings of Middle-earth (1992)
• Garlands of Fantasy: The Art of Linda & Roger Garland (1994, text by Neil Suckling)
• The Book of the Unicorn (1996, with illustrations by Linda & Roger Garland, text by Neil Suckling)

Calendars

• 1984:
  • The J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar 1984
  • The 1984 J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar

• 1987:
  • The Tolkien Calendar 1987 (featured)
  • The 1987 J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar (featured)

• 1988:
  • The Tolkien Calendar 1988 (featured)
  • The 1988 J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar (featured)

• 1989:
  • The Tolkien Calendar 1989
  • The 1989 J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar

• 2026
  • 2026 - Tolkien Calendar 2027 (featured)

• The Master of the Rings: The Unauthorized Story Behind J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (Documentary, 2001)

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