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Sideblog for Tolkien stuff - My main is Twospoony.

[thewritersatlas]

rip fëanor it took a whole squad of balrogs to kill you, truly spite and revenge are the best motivators

[lemonomelette]

Feanorian lineups are apparently a rite of passage for silm artists, so

I wanted to include Feanor and Nerdanel but they're on honeymoon.

[peasant-player]

Ungoliant

Primeval devourer of light

[entnoot]

Éowyn, disguised as Dernhelm, among the Riders of Rohan ⚔️

Based on Eugéne Grasset’s “Jeanne chevauchant au milieu des hommes d’armes” (1894)

[persefoni-art]

Young Nerwen

Full painting process is here

[vrabia]

the silmarillion is wild because you read it and you're like huh okay, and then you read lotr and it turns out everyone's just going around doing their own thing while the surviving elves are living through the final chapters of a post-apocalyptic horror story

[vrabia]

rivendell's a pretty chill place, right? everyone gets along splendidly. dream retirement home et cetera. solid chance the guy you're having afternoon tea with has either survived or personally committed war crimes. also the reason it's so chill is elrond has this magic ring that makes it so the whole place exists slightly outside normal time

galadriel's been around since the beginning, like, for pretty much all of middle-earth's history you understand, she has Seen it all and despite what you may have been led to believe is at all times this close to snapping. also the reason lothlorien is so chill is she has this magic ring that makes it so the whole place exists slightly outside normal time

i can't emphasize enough how much of a post-apocalyptic horror story thranduil lives in. homeland destroyed and half his people massacred. has fucken sauron in his backyard and the spawn of the primordial beast that eats light puttering about on his lawn. a dragon lives next door. does NOT have a magic ring and is therefore obliged to rule over his murderforest in normal time

just so we're all on the same page here, legolas' day job before joining the fellowship was to hunt the spawn of the primordial beast that eats light and it's not like, a big deal or anything. he just has to do it. he's used to it.

'elves are leaving middle-earth and it's so sad :(' they have ptsd samwise.

[stinkylittlegnome]

My favorite Tolkien illustrations by Cor Blok in no particular order:

Bilbo and Gollum. Bilbo is the moon for some reason which is cool i guess

Smeagol and Deagol. I love the seaweed in the background, great attention to detail

Frodo serving Robin Hood-realness at his and Bilbo’s birthday party. Literally iconic

Isildur taking the ring from Sauron. Its great but I would like to see more of Sauron than just his hand, because I think he has the potential to look really cool

Pippin jumping into the bath at Crickhollow… no comment

Bilbo gives the Mithril coat to Frodo. Great poses, very stiff and awkward. I like it.

The fellowship. This one is a classic.

Gandalf and the balrog. Amazing

Boromir trying to take the ring from Frodo. I love the way he reaches for his sword, it looks very natural

Merry and Pippin and Treebeard. I like his legs and the fact that it looks like he’s wearing shorts.

[stinkylittlegnome]

The battle of Helms Deep. This one is just great for a lot of reasons. I like how the orcs in the background are just happy and sad smileys. Gimli is throwing a rock at them. I don’t know who the guy with a red hat is in the background, but I love him.

Gandalf, Theoden, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli finding Merry and Pippin in Isengard ft fucked up Shadowfax. Look at them smiling!

Sam, Frodo and Gollum. Frodo got rid of his Robin Hood hat which is a shame, but Gollum with a beak makes up for it.

Eowyn protecting Theoden from the Witch King. The fellbeast is a crow or perhaps a raven. Merry is hanging on the side, stabbing Witch King in the leg and he looks amazing

Mt Doom. Frodo looks very chill about getting his finger bit off, and Sam is just kind of floating there. I love everything about Gollum

[jkl-fff]

They don't make art like this anymore (possibly because various laws forbid it), which is a shame.

[pumkin-patchwork]

Huan and Lúthien approach Sauron at Tol-in-Gaurhoth, FA 465

[now-for-wrath-now-for-ruin]

Please I beg of you, more boromir in his Byzantine dress!!!! Or just at least the one you did as a separate piece so I can use him as my phone background please and thank you I love him so much

Your art literally changed how I view Boromir in my own fanfiction, and the scope of the world away from Peter Jackson’s visage, which has helped me cement a lot of characteristics about him/the world. Like 🫶🏻😩 please please pretty please

Thank you so much!! I'm honestly so honoured that my art had some impact on your fanfic???? I'm so happy you enjoyed his design and gained something valuable out of it!!

Since I wanted to make some adjustments to Boromir's outfit anyway (and do it fully since the cloak was covering it so much in the first one), I made a full body version of him in it!

[balrogballs]

FINROD FELAGUND [MARK II]

A pretty rushed piece that I started because I wanted to try out some specific lighting directions (essentially light being ‘caught’ by golden hair, then strained and refracted and thus the lit side of the face seeming shadowed and vice versa) with it, and midway through I decided it would be very fun if Finrod was re-embodied with his monsterfucking werewolf-killing scars!

Man’s truly been through the wringer and came out hotter for it. Everyone say thank you Mr Werewolf for the sexy little snarl 😇

commission info etc

[meraofxebel]

[thedwarrowscholar]

The Language of the Dwarves: A Beginner Course Arrives May 24th

Well met,

After a great deal of work behind the scenes, I’m very pleased to share that the Neo-Khuzdul Beginner Course will soon be available through Patreon.

The first lesson will be released on May 24th, with a new lesson following each week.

This is a fully structured course of nine lessons, designed to guide you from the very foundations of the language to practical use. It includes detailed documents, audio segments, and a wide range of exercises, with the option to receive personal feedback along the way.

Whether you are new to Neo-Khuzdul or looking to revisit and strengthen your understanding, I look forward to finally sharing this with you.

Ever at your service, The Dwarrow Scholar

[hericeeee]

[sankta-wraith]

Am I the only one who finds this extremely funny

[captainamerica-inmiddleearth]

Needed to preserve these tags

[nimphelos]

sketch of my good friend ulmo

[lemonomelette]

Unstoppable force meets immovable object

[katyamondfische]

Oh yeah, more of my bullshit. This is somewhat for @very-angbang-valentines, I think it fits best in day 5 - Black, Oil, Ozone, Salt, Thunder

Anyway I am very obsessed with this image/idea of Melkor's ëala being so vast that he kind of fills the entire space that he's in - and having that power wrap around Mairon...

(this is not explicit but i am uploading it to AO3 just in case

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

And just for fun since I actually had Record Timelapse turned on for once, under the cut you can see the WIP. (oh no people will see how messy and unintuitive my process is.... fuck fuckfuck)