Help me with an Image from Tales from Wilderland

[Majestic]

***WARNING - SPOILERS BELOW***

The art in all TOR products has been nothing short of spectacular. Because of this, I want to use every opportunity - when running an adventure - to show pictures to my players as we adventure in Middle-earth.

I am looking for your help in figuring out one image from Tales from Wilderland. In the first adventure ("Don't Leave the Path"), on page 15, there's an image of (what I believe is supposed to be) an NPC, Baldor, wrapped up in spider-webs.

The adventure gives very specific descriptions of the setting, and from the text Baldor is supposed to be webbed up at the top of a 30-foot tall wall (of the crumbling remains of a keep), connected by spiderwebs to a round tower. The only "bridge" described is made of webbing. But the picture seems to show a figure connected to a section that looks like it's next to some sort of man-made bridge (made of the same construction as the wall, with a spiky architecture).

The long and short of it is that this picture doesn't really match up well with the written description, at least as I'm seeing it. I've carefully imagined every part of the text, but I'm having trouble reconciling the two. And perhaps that's okay. Perhaps it's more a stylized image to show roughly what's happening (it could have been commissioned before the text was finished, for example).

In any event, it's not a huge deal. But I figured I'd throw it out here to see if anybody had any ideas...

[zedturtle]

That illustration has often bothered me, for a lot of the same reasons. My heroes were lucky enough (via flying tackle) to stop Baldor from going into the woods, so I never got to use it.

But, the illustration looks a bit off... I was going to use it as a warning or a decoy, i.e. they hack it open only to find desiccated bones or dead leaves made to look like a body. Then, far above, they seem a bundle that starts to move... it still has a live one inside of it, that must be Baldor! That sort of thing.

[Majestic]

Nice! I like that idea, zedturtle. Thanks for a great solution!