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With Tolkien, Brittany is transformed into Middle-earth

2023-08-03T10:54:34.571Z

Highlights: The Hélène and Édouard Leclerc Fund, in Landerneau, offers a fascinating retrospective of illustrator John Howe. Howe is working on the series The Rings of Power.. From our special envoy to Landeraune (Finistère)This is an exhibition that is likely to make noise among heroic fantasy lovers, or even among purists of the work of J.R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973) The town of 16,000 inhabitants in the heart of Finistère could one day house the baroque and medieval universe of The Lord of the Rings.


REPORT - The Hélène and Édouard Leclerc Fund, in Landerneau, offers a fascinating retrospective of illustrator John Howe, who is working on the series The Rings of Power.


From our special envoy to Landerneau (Finistère)

This is an exhibition that is likely to make noise in the Landerneau of heroic fantasy lovers, or even among purists of the work of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973). Who would have thought that Landerneau, a Breton town of 16,000 inhabitants in the heart of Finistère, could one day house the baroque and medieval universe of The Lord of the Rings? However, Brittany, whose forest of Brocéliande, renamed "forest of Paimpont", welcomed the Arthurian gesture, perfectly suited to the medieval-fantastic of Tolkien or the Canadian illustrator John Howe.

At the entrance of the Hélène and Édouard Leclerc Fund for Culture, visitors are greeted by a surprising ballet of winged dragons flying over a large, dark Gothic-looking tower. The wow effect is immediate. Immersion can begin. Another great find of this exhibition with inventive scenography: the presence of a dozen huge backlit panels, 4 meters by 4, which allow...

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