Remaking Lord of the Rings MONSTERS based ONLY on the books...

Summary by Krater

The host draws and paints J.R.R. Tolkien's monsters from The Lord of the Rings based strictly on textual descriptions from the books and Tolkien's letters, comparing them to cinematic and illustrative interpretations.

From the video

Answers: What do Tolkien's monsters in The Lord of the Rings actually look like based on the books?

• J.R.R. Tolkien monster illustrations
• Drawing Treebeard
• Drawing winged beasts and fell beasts
• Drawing Shelob and Ungoliant
• Drawing Sauron's physical form

What it concludes

• Treebeard is 14 feet high, has seven toes on each foot, and resembles an old oak or beech tree with grey bushy beard and mossy skin.
• The winged beasts are described as bird-like with pterodactyl and turkey traits, feathered rather than scaled, and emitting a foul smell.
• Shelob is described as an evil spider-thing with an out-thrust head, short stalk-like neck, cluster of eyes, great horns, nobbled joints, a pale belly, and claws at the end of each leg.
• Sauron had a physical body during the Third Age, appearing as a man of more than human stature with fair and wise demeanor that shifted to malice, wearing dark clothes and armor reflecting fire and light, with a lidless eye of flame.