Limited edition print (10 pieces)

This piece shows the end of Saruman who’s killed by his servant Grima Wormtongue, after which he is shot by the Hobbits of Shire. This part is completely left out of the LOTR movies. After the defeat of Sauron, Saruman escaped Isengard and took over the Shire under the alias “Sharkey”. He industrialized, polluted and tyrannized Shire with the help of human thugs called “ruffians”. He was a traitor (as was Grima), which is why he’s framed in a mouth of hell—a reference to Dante’s Inferno, where Satan eternally chew up the worst traitors of history in the deepest circle of hell. There’s the sword of archangel Michael that brings judgement to the highly poisonous Water Hemlock above in the marginalia.

Print size: A4 (210 x 297 mm)

Signed and printed on Hahnemuehle Photo Matt Fibre 200 gsm paper (natural white / warm tone) in the finest possible quality—Archival digital pigment printing (sometimes called Giclee).