HI I AM THE PERSON WHO MADE THE ART FOR HOUNDS IN THE FIRST FEW PAGES THAT YOU BOUND AND IM GOING CRAZY YOU BOUND IT!!! THIS IS SO COOL!!!
It's old art from a difficult period in my life and quickly after that i wasn't able to draw for a long while. I've only started with some ink again the past few days, so i am really glad you found those pieces nice enough to use. Thank you lots!! I love that fic dearly still!! Feel free to dm me any time!!!
Oh my goodness thank you!!! Its absolutely gorgeous and a perfect introduction to the fic in book form. So happy you like it <3
The cover is bound in SUEDE. I love suede. It marks with literally everything, is impossible to clean and the worst material I have ever tried to emboss vinyl onto but its gorgeous. Its like holding a flower petal. I love suede.
In light of that issue I made a protective dust jacket for the book, then because I accidentally printed it in black and white the first time I made two dust jackets, featuring Van Gogh's La Nuit Étoilée. The colour one is normal and the other is specifically for reading chapter 33 (you know what you did).
Endpapers and other decoration featuring various wonderful art for Hounds by @chrysanthemumskies, @notactiveartblog, and @fishfingersandscarves.
Inside:
Also, BURGUNDY HEADBANDS??? I love them.
Alas I do not have the copy I made of part one of Hounds with me, so I can't do a direct comparison; but this story was the first fic I ever bound, and is now the most recent; the hourglass has inverted; and it is to this day one of the loveliest things I have ever read.
Hi I've been exhausted lately but I finally finished some Middle-Earth cane designs for Disability Pride Month and they make me very happy.
Click for better quality, zoom in please I spent way too long on these.
I'm a cane user, and most fictional or antique canes really annoy me, because they're rarely actually usable or practical. So this is my attempt to design usable but still interesting canes for characters I have somewhat arbitrarily projected disability onto. For example, they all have padded handles and most have wrist straps.
Individual design ramblings below!
Nerdanel has some type of genetic chronic illness, I haven't decided exactly what yet. Her cane has metalwork decoration, and a locking hinge mechanism to allow it to fold, because one of my canes is folding and it's super useful. Those parts were made by Mahtan. The Fëanorian star carving and crystal section were later modifications, and I think Nerdanel would continue modifying it throughout her life.
I've drawn Idril with prosthetic legs post-Helcaraxë, and some people with prosthetics use canes or other mobility aids for extra balance. I also headcanon that her silver legs were made by Celebrimbor once he ended up in Gondolin, so before that she may have had lower quality prosthetics and relied more on a cane. Hers has an eagle carved into it (Thorondor maybe), as well as eagle feathers, ribbons, and her heraldry for decoration. Elenwë's name is also carved closer to the base as a memorial (hopefully I did the tengwar right).
Celebrían uses a cane in Valinor due to her injuries. Hers is mallorn wood with metal decorations. Specifically the snake and flowers reference the House of Finarfin. The snake is made of mithril, which i think would be popular for mobility aid details due to its light weight. Also, she got Celebrimbor to help her make it after she dragged him out of Mandos.
Elros' is the only one without a wrist strap because I unfortunately couldn't work it into the design well. He uses it due to a leg injury from the War of Wrath, mostly because I wanted Elrond to encourage him about it in a fic I never finished. The handle is a carved and painted seagull, the column shows fish, and the base has Eärendil's star.
Caranthir inherited Nerdanel's condition, the only one of the sons who did. He didn't start using a cane until they were in Beleriand, so his is a from-memory recreation of Nerdanel's, made with Curufin's help. It also has metalwork details and a hinge. The textile wraps were his own addition, and the claw and beads were gifts from Haleth.
Faramir was born disabled with chronic health issues (again haven't decided exactly what yet), but this wasn't publicly acknowledged by Denethor as it didn't "fit the image". He had very little access to mobility aids growing up because of this. Injuries from the War of the Ring certainly didn't help, and he started using a cane after that. His was given to him by Éowyn, and was made in Rohan, hence the horse. The blue fabric band with stars is a reference to the cloak he gave her, and the lower band was made using remnants of Boromir's horn as a way for Faramir to carry his brother with him.
listen i will not hear a word against armand he is perfect he is stunning. it’s all ‘characters these days talk like they’re trying to get a good grade in therapy >:/‘ until you behead your 72-year rebound manipulationship and the shared ex he left you for so you can force his decapitated body to write apology notes by threatening the life of the girl you tricked him into paying to pretend to be his dead daughter who you killed. he even apologized for killing her ok he’s doing the 12 steps it’s called taking accountability it’s called healing
Nostalgia has inspired me to share my first ever bookbinding project from when I was like. fourteen. the one and only A Guest For Mr Spider. Not being much of an artist in the drawing sense, most of the illustrations are copied from or inspired by a binding of the book by adorabelledearheart on reddit; so many thanks and credit to them.
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