Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy

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Does anyone have Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy. One of the entries is Drool Rockworm. The painting is excellent - just how I imagined Drool.
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Never heard of it....what is it?
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Basically it's an a-z of fantasy creatures and characters from fantasy. Barlowe is an artists and does a painting for each one. There's also text in the entry. As far as I know it's ver hard to find; I managed only get a copy in one of those bargain book stores. It's worth trying to find.
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And from the Chronicles, theres only Drool?
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That's right - only Drool. In the picture he's holding the staff of law and the Illearth Stone. I can scan it and send it via an email if anyone wants to see it. There's also a great painting of Covenant and Atiaran walking through Andelain - I found that in a book about various worlds in fantasy.
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Please send me a pic of Drool.

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Any chance you could post those on the Watch site? I'm sure we'd all love to see them.
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This is Ur-Vile (cant be bothered signing in). How would I do about posting them on the Watch site?
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Awesome book. I don't know that it matched my vision of what a cavewight would look like but pretty darn close. If you like this book you may want to check out Barlowe's Guide to Science Fiction as well.
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Have a vague recollection of having seen that picture (and the book) before. Have the misfortune of never having seen it again.

Use the album to post the pics. There's a size limit, but I don't recall what it is. I think you have to be in the gallery you want the pic in to download it there.
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The images have been up for a long time.
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Wow. Shows how much attention I pay to dates. :roll: :oops:
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I did a quick search for Barlowe's Guide to Fantasy at abebooks.com and found 54 copies for sale.
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