Favourite... Art subjects: Detailed, large imagery. Heroic fantasy art - the human physique, equestrian, flora, fauna and landscape.
Artists: Friedrich, Leonardo, Burne-Jones, Waterhouse, Alma-Tadema, Vallejo, Gimenez, Escher.
Artworks: Friedrich's The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (1818). Herbert Draper's Lament for Icarus (1898).
Authors: Frank Herbert, Robert E Howard, George RR Martin, JV Jones, Robert Jordan, Eric van Lustbader, and David Gemmell.
Movies: Blade Runner, Equilibrium, Conan the Barbarian, Gladiator, Lord of the Rings, The Last Samurai, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.
Actors: Christian Bale, Sean Bean and Rutger Hauer.
Music: Beethoven, Vangelis, Y J Malmsteen, Angel Dust, and Judas Priest. Film soundtracks.
"What is best in life?" Thought, Feeling, Beauty, and Creativity. There may be a 5th element, Fellowship.
Klaus Badelt