Michael Herring (born Michael George Herring in North Carolina, USA, 1947) is an illustrator living in Australia, responsible for cover art of numerous fiction books from 1975 to 2009.
1988 cover of Unfinished Tales
Herring made illustrations of Barrow-wights, Isengard, and Saruman's wolves that were featured in The 1980 J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar and the calendar following.
Then, after Barbara Remington's work for Ballantine Books, Herring made cover illustrations for publications of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (1983), The Return of the King (1983), The Two Towers (1983), and The Fellowship of the Ring (1983). He also made art for a Ballantine edition of Unfinished Tales, eight years after Christopher Tolkien had finished and released it.
Herring's depiction of Gollum and Bilbo in Gollum's cave
He had no Tolkien literature involvement following 1988.
External links[]
- Michael Herring at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
- ISFDb page, listing all book cover art
- Michael Herring at Oz Wiki
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