Aris/Astaria

✨watercolor ✨a traveler in middle-earth 🏔️“I meant to go back, see the Lonely Mountain again.”

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A painting for my pet bird, Green Leaf, who flew out of the window with its friends this summer (it was an accident… they chewed their way out through a metal screen…?!)

I hope they can find their way home one day…😭

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Erebor 🏔️

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I drew the Lonely Mountain on the door of my room! 🏔️ (Soft pastels, September 2022)

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Happy Chinese New Year! 🎆

Let’s celebrate the Year of the Horse!

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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while.

The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him.

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

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✨Minas Tirith✨

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🌌Melian & Thingol

“But he came at last to a glade open to the stars, and there Melian stood; and out of the darkness he looked at her, and the light of Aman was in her face. She spoke no word; but being filled with love Elwe came to her and took her hand, and straightway a spell was laid on him, so that they stood thus while long years were measured by the wheeling stars above them; and the trees of Nan Elmoth grew tall and dark before they spoke any word.”

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Work in progress

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✨Finished✨

"But as the host of Fingolfin marched into Mithrim the Sun rose flaming in the West; and Fingolfin unfurled his blue and silver banners, and blew his horns, and flowers sprang beneath his marching feet, and the ages of the stars were ended."

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, (Of the Return of the Noldor).

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Work in progress

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Thorin✨

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✨Commission✨ for @zetsus-world

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“Do candles pity moths?”

“Or moth candles, when the wind blows them out?”

Pin design - The moth & The candle

(Andreth x Aegnor)

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“The song of Lúthien released the bonds of winter, and the frozen waters spoke, and flowers sprang from the cold earth where her feet had passed.”

Pin design - The Nightingale & Silmaril✨

(Lúthien x Beren)

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“For Ulmo bore up Elwing out of the waves, and he gave her the likeness of a great white bird, and upon her breast there shone as a star the Silmaril, as she flew over the water to seek Eärendil her beloved.”

Pin Design - The White Bird & The Star ✨

(Elwing x Eärendil)

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“Then a wind arose, and great rains fell, and torrents swept down from the heights of Taur-nu-Fuin; and thought Gwindor cried out to Turin, warning him of their utmost peril, he made no answer, but sat unmoving and unweeping beside the body of Beleg Cuthalion, lying in the dark forest slain by the hand even as he cut the bonds of thraldom from him.”

Commission / Please do not use🚫

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Tolkien’s Room📚

Dimensions: 9*9*9"

Mixed media (including found objects)

My homework for 3D illustration class