“The Way Is Shut” by Middle-Earth Puzzles
Monday, May 3rd, 2010It’s been quite a while since I posted anything out of my own collection of cephalopodabila (yeah, I’m pretty sure I just invented a new word there), but that is not because I am out of stuff to post. Heavens no! While it’s true that my current state of unemployment has encouraged me to do a lot of “virtual collecting” recently, I still own plenty of awesome ceph-stuff that hasn’t made its way onto the blog yet.
For example…
This 500 piece jigsaw puzzle was produced by Iron Crown Enterprises in 1997 as part of their Middle-Earth Puzzles series. “The Way Is Shut” depicts a very octopus-like interpretation of the Watcher in the Water, Tolkien’s tentacled lake monster from The Fellowship of the Ring. (Well, it appears to have at least twelve arms, but but it still resembles an octopus more than anything.) This version of the Watcher is by artist Ted Nasmith and was originally produced for ICE’s Middle-Earth Collectible Card Game.
For a detailed examination of the Watcher in the Water, see this post from last year’s Movie Week.
