Judge Holden

“It makes no difference what men thinks of war, said the Judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was and will be. That way and not some other way."

This is a drawing I did a few years ago, when I first read Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. I later used his face as a basis for this drawing of Morgoth.