My Sad Son

Main blog: whatthewhenjustmighthavebeen welcome to the elf cave

[em-niwa]

And he issued forth clad in black armour; and he stood before the King like a tower, iron-crowned, and his vast shield, sable unblazoned, cast a shadow over him like a stormcloud. But Fingolfin gleamed beneath it as a star; for his mail was overlaid with silver, and his blue shield was set with crystals; and he drew his sword Ringil, that glittered like ice. *quiet sobbing*

[psbyte]

Upon all whom you love my thought shall weigh.

[nimphelos]

really funny how círdan helped fingon 1 time and he got a free son as a reward (in my imagination)

[jenechhka]

I used to be a huge fan of Tolkien in my teens. Nowadays feel lost and disorientated so I decided to go back to the roots of my joy. Trying to sketch some of the characters.

This is how I imagine Sauron Gorthaur in his TolGaurhoth era. He still has a extinct halo like an ex angel

[silmalope]

Biomechanical elves, feat. Maglor and Galadriel! Because you don’t live for ~5000 years on one hröa without needing some maintenance.

Additional thoughts below the cut!

Okay, here’s the logic:

1.) Elves live forever unless killed

2.) Elves cannot grow back limbs like starfish (c.f. maedhros)

3.) Elves, due to their preternatural endurance, are very likely to survive having limbs hacked off (c.f. maedhros again)

4.) Elves, especially in the First and Second Ages, spend a lot of time trying to stab each other and/or fighting things that want to rip them to shreds (orcs, werewolves, etc.)

Rinse and repeat long enough, and by the Third Age, most older elves would have several serious permanent injuries. Conveniently, elves also have a cultural predilection for a.) the healing arts and b.) magic smithery, which gives us an excellent fast-track to automail-type fantasy prostheses.

I drew Maglor and Galadriel, who have decent odds of rocking the most metal-per-hröa by the time of LotR.

Maglor has a vocal prosthesis (maybe for smoke inhalation during the War of Wrath, specially calibrated for singing-laments-upon-the-shore purposes); a cranial implant/helm (I like to think Elwing chucked something heavy at him); a gauntlet (to restore fine motor control to his Silmaril-chucking and harp-playing hand), and a prosthetic leg.

Galadriel has several implants and a prosthetic arm. The crown-with-circuitry is a helm designed to offset migraines (a common side effect of peering into things that are, once were, and have not yet come to pass.) It was made for her by Celeborn, who is her husband AND her mechanic, and is also why he gave her the nickname Galadriel.

For obvious reasons, prostheses are wayyyy more common in Middle Earth than Valinor! There are some prosthetic and mobility aid craftspeople in Aman who make tools for elves who were injured on the Great Journey back in the Years of the Trees (or born with conditions that necessitated it!) However, I think the technology probably advanced a whole lot faster in the East, so skilled mechanics arriving in Valinor would be warmly welcomed. I drew the prostheses with exposed metal for the Aesthetics, but I do think elves would develop some kind of grippy skin-like surface for functionality.

[jackimer]

POV the Feanorians if they locked in

[starshadeemilyart]

Luthien Tinuviel. I started her a few weeks ago and finished her just now in the airport.

[ilaneya]

maedhros 🔥🗡️

[stardustmuguet]

@feanorianweek day 6, Ambarussa, Amrod and Amras, and Asphodels, “My regrets follow you to the grave”

[essenceofarda]

Galadriel, painted like a Valorant character :)c

Honestly the Valorant style is the most natural feeling painting style for me so far because I do love me the lasso tool 🥰

[stardustmuguet]

@feanorianweek 2026 day 2, Maglor 🪉✨ and the forget-me-not flowers

[stardustmuguet]

@feanorianweek day 4, Caranthir the Dark and orchids, “Luxury”

[stardustmuguet]

@feanorianweek 2026 day 1, Maedhros the Tall and spider lilies

[vimeralinda]

[kathrins-sketchbook]

The War of Wrath or Eärendil's Return

(omg i am so bad at posting my art in a timely fashion) Anyway, I was very happy to create the cover for last autumn's Flammifer (the magazine of the German Tolkien society. It is a sister piece to my Eärendil art that I made for the cover of Amon Hen, which showed Eärendil's voyage and sacrifices and how people on Arda call out to him from his view. In this image we see him from the perspective of everyone that looks for him in the night sky, as a eucatastrophe returning for a last time.

[persefoni-art]

gods and monsters

[busymagpie]

Celegorm with a Norwegian Forest Cat