Another art post! I love finding stuff like this. One of the Russian versions of Lord of the Rings was illustrated by Sergey Yuhimov (or Sergei Iukhimov). Looking more like something I studied in my Art History classes in college, I would love to see an English version with these illustrations.
Gandalf arriving at Hobbiton
Bilbo and Frodo’s Birthday- A Long Expected Party
Frodo and Sam meeting the Elves on their way to Rivendell
Frodo rescuing his friends in the barrow
Sam and Frodo meeting Aragorn at the Prancing Pony
The Council of Elrond (I think?)
The Bridge of Khazad-dum
Caras Galadhon, home to Celeborn and Galadriel
The Argonath
The death of Boromir
Frodo, Sam and Gollum in the Dead Marshes
Gandalf and the healing of Theoden (Eowyn in the back!)
Merry and Pippin at Treebeard’s House
Frodo, Sam and Gollum in Ithilien
The Ents destroy Isengard
The Siege of Gondor and Grond
“I am no man!”
Frodo and Sam enter Mordor
The Healing Houses of Gondor
“Here, at the end of all things…”
*sniff*
The crowning of Aragorn
Oh man. There are so many more pictures I would have liked to add. Be sure to visit this blog, this article, and this page (in Russian, but all you really need to do is look at the pictures right?) for even more of Yuhimov’s Lord of the Rings illustrations.
Grimmella 
Reblogged this on A Pilgrim in Narnia and commented:
Here is an absolutely gorgeous blog by Grimmella. I first met Grimmella in The Hobbit Read-Along. Here she gathers together some of the pictures from a Russian edition of The Hobbit. They really do look like plates from a medieval Bible. It makes me want to get my copy of The Hobbit bound in leather.
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Reblogged this on Attorney at Law Jan Vajda Namestovo, Slovakia.
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These are incredible! Thank you for sharing!
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This is really cool!
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Gape. O.O
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[…] “Russian Medievalist Tolkien” at Grimella. This is a new blog I discovered through a random series of reblogs and links. The post contains a bunch of gorgeous medieval-style Lord of the Rings illustrations! I love me some illustrations. […]
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The Council of Elrond is such a close copy of a Last Supper icon that it’s fairly startling. The quotations from icon painting otherwise are mostly details, although I think The Crowning of Aragorn is pretty close to one I’ve seen before.
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[…] ago, I shared about “Russian Medievalist Tolkien” from Grimmella, a gorgeous artistic post. And check out Steve Haye’s piece from last year, “A Soviet […]
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