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		<title>Star Kindler</title>
		<link>https://www.jefmurray.com/gallery/2015/06/04/star-kindler/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2015 19:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#8220;Star Kindler&#8220; Oil on canvas, 13&#8243;x21&#8243; wide. Artist Commentary: &#8216;Then Varda went forth from the council and she looked out from the heights of Taniquetil, and beheld the darkness of Middle&#8211;earth beneath the innumerable stars, faint and far. Then she began a great labour, greatest of all the works fo the Valar since &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="https://www.jefmurray.com/gallery/2015/06/04/star-kindler/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; font-size: x-large;"><strong>&#8220;Star Kindler</strong></span><span style="font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; font-size: x-large;"><strong>&#8220;</strong></span></p>
<p>Oil on canvas, 13&#8243;x21&#8243; wide.</p>
<p>Artist Commentary: &#8216;Then Varda went forth from the council and she looked out from the heights of Taniquetil, and beheld the darkness of Middle&#8211;earth beneath the innumerable stars, faint and far. Then she began a great labour, greatest of all the works fo the Valar since their coming into Arda. She took the silver dews from the vast of Telperion, and therewith she made new stars and brighter against eh coming of the Firstborn; wherefore she whose name out of the deeps of time and the labours of Ea was Tintalle, the Kindler, was called after by the Elves Elentari, Queen of the Stars&#8221; &#8211; J.R.R. Tolkien, <em>The Silmarillion</em></p>
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<p>13″x21″ wide signed and numbered prints – AVAILABLE! Please click <a href="http://sales.jefmurray.com/print_purchase_paintings.html" target="_blank">here.</a></p>
<p>13″x21″ original oil painting – $1400.00 US plus shipping.</p>
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		<title>Uinen</title>
		<link>https://www.jefmurray.com/gallery/2015/03/21/uinen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; 9.0″x12.0″ original graphite sketch – AVAILABLE Signed and numbered prints – AVAILABLE To purchase this original sketch, please contact Jef by clicking here. To purchase a print of this item, please click here.]]></description>
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<p>9.0″x12.0″ original graphite sketch – AVAILABLE</p>
<p>Signed and numbered prints – AVAILABLE</p>
<p>To purchase this original sketch, please contact Jef by clicking <a href="mailto:jef-dot-murray-at-gmail-dot-com?body=Type%20your%20message%20here.%0DBut%20First,%20DELETE%20the%20words%20%22-at-%22%20and%20%22-dot-%22%20from%20the%20e-mail%20address%20and%20replace%20with%20the%20@%20symbol%20and%20a%20period.%0DSorry%20for%20the%20inconvenience!">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Yavanna</title>
		<link>https://www.jefmurray.com/gallery/2015/03/21/yavanna/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2015 18:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; 11.0″x9.0″ original graphite sketch – AVAILABLE Signed and numbered prints – AVAILABLE To purchase this original sketch, please contact Jef by clicking here. To purchase a print of this item, please click here.]]></description>
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<p>11.0″x9.0″ original graphite sketch – AVAILABLE</p>
<p>Signed and numbered prints – AVAILABLE</p>
<p>To purchase this original sketch, please contact Jef by clicking <a href="mailto:jef-dot-murray-at-gmail-dot-com?body=Type%20your%20message%20here.%0DBut%20First,%20DELETE%20the%20words%20%22-at-%22%20and%20%22-dot-%22%20from%20the%20e-mail%20address%20and%20replace%20with%20the%20@%20symbol%20and%20a%20period.%0DSorry%20for%20the%20inconvenience!">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Ulmo Rises</title>
		<link>https://www.jefmurray.com/gallery/2015/01/25/ulmo-rises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#8220;Ulmo Rises Oil on canvas, 13&#8243;x21&#8243; wide. Artist Commentary: I spent the day on the shores of Nevrast, hiking the slopes of Mount Taras, and nigh unto the weathered ruins of Turgon&#8217;s great city. Evening approached, and as I sought shelter in the windswept Hall, I descried a figure below me upon the seastrand: one of the Noldor, he &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="https://www.jefmurray.com/gallery/2015/01/25/ulmo-rises/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; font-size: x-large;"><strong>&#8220;Ulmo Rises</strong></span></p>
<p>Oil on canvas, 13&#8243;x21&#8243; wide.</p>
<p>Artist Commentary:</p>
<p>I spent the day on the shores of Nevrast, hiking the slopes of Mount Taras, and nigh unto the weathered ruins of Turgon&#8217;s great city. Evening approached, and as I sought shelter in the windswept Hall, I descried a figure below me upon the seastrand: one of the Noldor, he seemed, or else some great champion of the Atani.</p>
<p>But then, out at sea, I saw clouds pile high as the sun sank, and blood-red was the sky stained as wind and waves roiled. And whilst I observed the heaving sea, a great wave arose from her depths. Forth it rushed, and just ere it crested, a fell figure stood forth from the foam.</p>
<p>Wielding a great staff, and clad in a billowing emerald cloak, this god-like being strode towards the warrior upon the beach and, remaining knee-high in the surf, spoke unto him. What words passed between the two I could not tell above the roar of wind and rising tempest, but I knew that these signs heralded the coming of some great doom upon these lands.</p>
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<p>13″x21″ original oil painting – $2000.00 US plus shipping.</p>
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		<title>Círdan</title>
		<link>https://www.jefmurray.com/gallery/2012/06/15/cirdan-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[8.5″x11″ original graphite sketch – AVAILABLE Signed and numbered prints – AVAILABLE To purchase this original sketch, please contact Jef by clicking here. To purchase a print of this item, please click here.]]></description>
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<p>8.5″x11″ original graphite sketch – AVAILABLE</p>
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		<title>&#8230;And Melkor Coveted Arda</title>
		<link>https://www.jefmurray.com/gallery/2012/02/01/and-melkor-coveted-arda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;And Melkor Coveted Arda&#8221; Oil on canvas, 10&#8243;x16&#8243; wide. Artist Commentary: “And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, &#8230; </p><p><a class="more-link block-button" href="https://www.jefmurray.com/gallery/2012/02/01/and-melkor-coveted-arda/">Continue reading &#187;</a>]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; font-size: xx-large;"><strong>&#8220;&#8230;And Melkor Coveted Arda&#8221;</strong></span><br />
Oil on canvas, 10&#8243;x16&#8243; wide.</p>
<p>Artist Commentary: “And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.” &#8211; J.R.R. Tolkien, <em>The Silmarillion</em></p>
<p>10″x16″ original oil painting – AVAILABLE</p>
<p>10″x16″ wide signed and numbered prints – AVAILABLE</p>
<p>To purchase this original painting, please contact Jef by clicking <a href="mailto:jef-dot-murray-at-gmail-dot-com?body=Type%20your%20message%20here.%0DBut%20First,%20DELETE%20the%20words%20%22-at-%22%20and%20%22-dot-%22%20from%20the%20e-mail%20address%20and%20replace%20with%20the%20@%20symbol%20and%20a%20period.%0DSorry%20for%20the%20inconvenience!">here</a>.</p>
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