When you write ‘hagiography’, do you perhaps mean ‘iconography’? I always took hagiography to mean relating to the lives of saints, where iconography is the use and interpretation of symbols.

Really interesting!

Me too, Blok is my favourite Tolkien illustrator, and Tolkien himself appreciated them too.

This is a great book that reproduces all his artworks available (a few are in unknown private hands):
tolkiengateway.net/wiki/A_Tolki...

I like to think of the writing attributed to Jan Van Eyck on his alleged self portrait, “As best I can”.

Or something my bookmaking teacher would say: “Flaws are intrinsic to the hand process”.

My favorite game soundtrack for sure.