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Jenny Dolfen (born 1975) is a German illustrator and teacher, known especially for herillustrations of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
Jenny Dolfen was born inBremerhaven, and in 2001, she received a degree in English and Latin at theUniversity of Cologne. Dolfen lives nearAachen with her husband and her two children.
Dolfen has done artwork for severalrole-playing games, including Fuller Flippers'Quest Cards, Action Studios'Realms of Wonder, Final Sword Productions'The World of Erien and the GermanDas Schwarze Auge.[2]
She is known for herartwork based on the Middle-earth works ofJ. R. R. Tolkien, chieflyThe Silmarillion.[3] Dolfen won the inauguralTolkien Society Award in the category "best artwork" in 2014, for herwatercolour painting "Eärendil the Mariner".[1] Since then she has won awards in 2018 for "The Hunt", a depiction ofFinrod Felagund going on a hunt with theFëanoreans Maedhros and Maglor in EasternBeleriand; and in 2020 theT-shirt design "The Professor", celebrating 50 years of The Tolkien Society, with Middle-earth characters and places within the outline of a pipe-smoking J. R. R. Tolkien.[4]
Dolfen has made illustrations forGeorge R. R. Martin's novelA Song of Ice and Fire, as documented in the 2005 bookThe Art of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.[5][6]
