Thanks for noticing the post, Bruce! I think you were pretty much the first person to read it.
Mithrandir should clearly be the Hermit, I think. The card pictured betrays an excessive focus on the word "Magician" rather than on the actual nature of that card. (The Tarot Magician is always a young man, for one thing, and has nothing of the "wizard" about him.) Who would make a better Tolkienian Magician? I'm not sure. Fëanor perhaps?
@William - Indeed. My impression is that the artist of these LotR cards was not genuinely 'inspired' in his work; in the way that Pamela Colman Smith (Rider-Waite) apparently was.
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Thanks for noticing the post, Bruce! I think you were pretty much the first person to read it.
Mithrandir should clearly be the Hermit, I think. The card pictured betrays an excessive focus on the word "Magician" rather than on the actual nature of that card. (The Tarot Magician is always a young man, for one thing, and has nothing of the "wizard" about him.) Who would make a better Tolkienian Magician? I'm not sure. Fëanor perhaps?
@William - Indeed. My impression is that the artist of these LotR cards was not genuinely 'inspired' in his work; in the way that Pamela Colman Smith (Rider-Waite) apparently was.
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