Fifth in "The Tolkster" series, by Douglas Christian Larsen, in the Virtual Shattered Glass technique (each "shard" of virtual glass built piece by piece, a painstaking process consuming more than six months of the artist's life, six days a week, up to twelve hours a day!). ©2007 by Douglas Christian Larsen, Enchanting original portrait of J.R.R. Tolkien. The Tolkster - J.R.R. Tolkien, Author of "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" and "The Children of Hurin."