Thursday, December 4, 2008

William Bouguereau Innocence painting

William Bouguereau Innocence paintingVincent van Gogh Poppies 1886 painting
Three other entrances they saw, dark black arches: one straight before them eastwards, and one on either side. Then the light went out.`That is all that I shall venture on for the present,' said Gandalf. 'There used to be great windows on the mountain-side, and shafts leading out to the light in the upper reaches of the Mines. I think we have reached them now, but it is night outside again, and we cannot tell until morning. If I am right, tomorrow we may actually see the together in a corner to escape the draught: there seemed to be a steady inflow of chill air through the eastern archway. All about them as they lay hung the darkness, hollow and immense, and they were oppressed by the loneliness and vastness of the dolven halls and endlessly branching stairs and passages. The wildest imaginings
Vincent van Gogh field of poppies paintingHenri Matisse Goldfish painting
raised his staff, and for a brief instant there was blaze like a flash of lightning. Great shadows sprang up and fled, and for a second they saw a vast roof far above their heads upheld by many mighty pillars hewn of stone. Before them and on either side stretched a huge empty hall; its black walls, polished and smooth as glass, flashed and glittered. that dark rumour had ever suggested to the hobbits fell altogether short of the actual dread and wonder of Moria.morning peeping in. But in the meanwhile we had better go no further. Let us rest, if we can. Things have gone well so far, and the greater part of the dark road is over. But we are not through yet, and it is a long way down to the Gates that open on the world.'The Company spent that night in the great cavernous hall, huddled close