Lúthien Tinúviel

This is one of my 'I didn't have a great internet connection' pictures of the week, have some Maglor and the twins! Here's some close ups-

Random moments from The Silmarillion part 4

Finrod's dagger was canonically forged by Fëanor which means that on top of Celebrimbor using Fëanor's hammer to forge the Three Elven Rings, Fëanor's work is contained within the Three Elven Rings- and the dagger itself tells the story of Fëanor's greatest work and some of Valinor's history...

AND The Three Elven Rings represent the three Silmarils and their final resting places: Nenya representing Maglor's Silmaril resting in the ocean, Narya representing Maedhros' Silmaril resting in a fiery chasm, and Vilya representing Eärendil's Silmaril, resting in the sky.

Fëanor is quite literally weaving everyone together... like his mother Miriel.

maglor does the scariest impressions. Once, he walked in on Maedhros and fingon and said in his feanor voice, ‘what is going on here?’ Mae almost had a heart attack.

Our favorite eldritch and less than sane beach bard, for day 2 of Feanorian week! I drew a very young and pleasant Nelyo for yesterday, so I thought it'd be fun to do crazy old Maglor today. I did try to make a more cropped version so you didn't have to see my messy sketchbook pages, but it just wasn't looking right (and the size didn't work well in a post). So please enjoy the random doodles, smudges, a stick helping me hold the page down, and what may or may not be a sneak peak for what's to come on the left ;0.

Close ups:

Maglor miiiiight be my favorite, so I really enjoyed drawing him!

Whenever there's a conversation about which Elves were strong and great, people usually talk about those who were warriors and kings and such, but I just want to take a moment to appreciate Nerdanel.

She's so good at her craft that her statues are sometimes mistaken for actual living people and creates sculptures from her own imagination (as someone who's trying to learn art - that's amazing). She has such a great personality that completely overshadows whatever she may lack in beauty compared to Elven ladies and princesses, considering how Fëanor fell in love with her despite other people questioning his choice because of her looks. She's so smart that Fëanor, despite his great pride, respected her opinions and came to her for counsel, which is also something he never did with anyone else. She's charismatic too, being able to influence him and work with his pride. She's so strong that she managed to have seven children - which is quite unique among Elves - and be a mother to a hoard of Mini-Fëanors; and now she has to deal with losing almost her entire family. She's also wise, choosing not to follow Fëanor to Middle-earth because she understood that it was a doomed endeavour. And last but not least, she has a strong, shiny spine, standing her ground even though Fëanor can be very charismatic and convincing and was accusing her of being a terrible wife and mother in response to her decision.

To me, Nerdanel is one truly great character who doesn't even need a sword or her own kingdom to display strength. Strength and greatness come in many different forms.

Maybe it’s the youngest sibling in me but I too would nope out of my older siblings’ drama and happily stay in Valinor if they were always at each other’s throats and suddenly decided to take their problems an entire continent away.

You couldn’t pay me to get involved, thank you and goodbye. Begone and take your enablers with you.

one thing about them is that they will simply insult morgoth to his face <3 full brothers in heart indeed

Between the curse of Mandos that loomed over every exile and Turin's own doom Beleg never stood a fucking chance. Gwindor and Turin meet for the first time and the force of their collective inability to keep a love one alive was so strong poor Beleg immediately exited the narrative

LEGENDS OF THE QUENDI

Private commission, from The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Pen and ink, watercolor, 24 K gold.

Gandalf/Olorin, Cirdan, Celembribor, Gil Galad, Melian, Galadriel, Elrond, Arwen, The Elven Rings, The Elessar, and a symbolic Belt of Melian.

No, I'm not playing hooky on Good Omens, I get about 20 minutes a day to work on other stuff.

I was getting a half hour a day, but even that's too much at this point.

And yes, at roughly 25 minutes a day, a piece like this takes a really long time. Months.

I'm a big believer in making sure you pick at something else even while working on a big project, even if you only use that time for warm ups. Keeps you from crumbling under the weight of the main project.