to be a star, you must burn

29. Tolkien-centric, but other fandoms make appearances. Quote by verbosities

[mothermakkar]

the day i picked up catzai

[melkorwashere]

[morphym37]

post ring era i almost wanted to give him black hair yknow why :)

ok black/greyish hair ver. under the cut

actually important bc "shadow of morgoth" 🖤

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Accidentally inhaled too much angbang vibes while browsing reddit zzz Lightings all wrong but I refuse to refine this any further atm so be it…

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(i'm so sorry I can't) same fanfic #2

(“Silence, lieutenant? Is that all I am worth to you?”)

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Little Maia

(sorry did some finetuning this morning. now I'm done can rest in peace now.) (or melkor after, idk.) again, painted over on AI, idk im lazy. here's original.

[morphym37]

"I paint the world in red for you, to love | The stars are twinkling from the void, above"

Notes:

-vampirism and cannibalism vaguely referencing the post I saw yesterday

-I also really dig the Zigur mask illustration circling around online forever

-lyrics quoted from ORE's song "How I paint the World in Flames 4 You"

-I used Rop Morgoth concept as motif because its so so obv hes gonna do that.. I also ran an iteration of his costume design based on Byzantine/Roman/and Rop baby Sauron?? But I dont feel it so far so its in my sock drawer

The Rings of Power - Prologue Concept Art , Nick Keller

Guess who? Some graphic keyframe exploration establishing key events rolled into one shot for the prologue. These first three images were a

update: just going to put it here instead of rebloging.. its so crowded

[morphym37]

Rex Mundi

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"I adore Thee, Lord of Malice!

By its thirst, the cruel craving For things infinite, unheard-of,

Dreams devouring and depraving, Songs no God may guess a word of,

Songs of crime and songs of craving—

By the drear eyes of the devil Bleak and sterile as they glitter

I adore Thee, King of Evil, With these lips, as dry and bitter

As the drear eyes of the devil"

("Hymn to Satan" - Aleister Crowley)

(anyway this is so befitting in every sense. Imagine a certain lovely so called ‘Satanist’ sings this to him, how cute)

[morphym37]

idk if this is a wip tbh (also im thinking about some tyrian purple)

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screencrop / 40% wip + testing some necessary effects - a scene from something i am loving to death rn #$^%. (apologize for the sorry weapon block in.. and hand)

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Utumno style?!!

ok so this is kinda rough but hear me out what if utumno style was really bombastic and baroque-esque in an archaic way because they have all the riches they can ever get and theres literally no one can rival them in middle earth? and the theatricality? Kind of like the golden age??

it can be over the top can be messy and ugly because the form language may be going everywhere but they arent supposed to be so artistically refined anyway??? (its nice you can always justify any vulgary and ugliness and bad taste here if any of it shows up)

(and then it goes downhill and militarized and becomes more practical in angband style)

(this is actually insp from a chat with AD yesterday who went for an hour long rant on how GoT and Dune didnt do dothraki & fremen designs justice lol their styles shouldve been much more colorful per his opinion) (And I actually sent him Jack Lowden's FA sauron asking what does he think that they made it very Roman.. He said Roman's were the enemies!! (in perspective, haha)) (and they are both an empire that last for a millenium/millenia.. makes sense ya)

side note: the crown looks so crude? what if melkor made it lmao (so sweet). or maybe this is some type of naturalistic aesthetics. Mairon def has skills to finess it more, so its either not made by him or its deliberate (smiling face)

anyway thanks for reading my word vomit

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Album cover of Elend's Les Ténèbres du Dehors + Coph Nia's "Drinking to the Angel of the East" - (one day it suddenly clicked to me that Beleriand = the continent in the East lolol) and that song is now vibing

but yea its stretching a little into Luciferean references.

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end of first age hc

"Immaculatus" - Gpkism is the secret sauce🫠

[reizen-art]

Lord of the Rings and the Nine

...and my old art with Nazgul.

[a-denn]

[ylieke]

Melkor

[narmodhel]

Some of you may remember my old artwork with Sauron. I decided to draw Melkor in a similar style, I think these two pictures look good together. And, starting from now, this blog will be Silmarillion only. If you’re interested in my multifandom works and original characters, please, check my second blog, @narmoel