艾伦•李（Alan Lee）

英国插画大师。生于1947年，尤擅水彩与铅笔素描。曾为众多文学经典创作插图，以《伊利亚特》获得英国童书最高荣誉格林纳威奖，更以《霍比特人》获得世界奇幻大会年度最佳艺术家奖。

“托尔金创造的世界，艾伦•李让我们看见。”李的插画是托尔金笔下宏大世界的视觉化基础，得到全世界读者与影迷的承认和热爱。凭借为电影《指环王》作出的卓越贡献，李荣膺2004年奥斯卡最佳艺术指导奖。

A sumptuous large-format hardback containing sketches and paintings from the illustrated Lord of the Rings, together with brand new and previously unseen material. In this large-format hardback Alan Lee reveals in pictures and in words how he created the images in the authorised illustrated edition of The Lord of the Rings. These images would prove so powerful, matching perfectly with Tolkien's own vision, that they would eventually define the look of Peter Jackson's movie trilogy and earn Alan a coveted Academy Award. The book is filled with over 150 of his sketches and early conceptual pieces to show how the project progressed from idea to finished art. It also contains 20 colour paintings reproduced in full-page glory, together with numerous examples of his conceptual art produced for the films and brand new pieces drawn specially for this book. It also includes an exclusive foreword written by Sir Ian McKellen. The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook provides a fascinating insight into the imagination of the man who painted Tolkien's vision, firstly onto the page and then in three dimensions on the cinema screen. It will also be of interest to many of the 100,000 people who have bought the illustrated Lord of the Rings as well as for budding artists and illustrators interested in unlocking the secrets of book illustration.