In order to create my magazine cover, I looked at a lot of covers of other magazines and I also saved a lot of possible options for pictures on my own cover. I made sure I had one main image (and a couple of smaller ones), a masthead, bar code, etc. I also made sure that everything coordinated with each other and nothing looked like it didn't belong. I revolved all of it around the same topic and put all of the required things on it.

This helped me because I realized I wanted Arwen on the front

This sort of helped me with how to lay out my cover

This helped me with the placing of text

This inspired me to put Rivendell behind Arwen

This inspired me to have a landscape in the background

This gave me the idea to have a caption about Legolas and Gimli

This helped me in finding the right picture of Arwen

This also helped with Arwen

Gave me the idea to have a bag end floor plan

Also helped with Legolas and Gimli

Inspired the evenstar necklace idea

Morgul blade idea

Idea for Smaug story

Bar code