Em(she/her) Silmarillion Art And Shenanegans

Dir i Elena is "Gaze the stars" in Sindarin and all my current art is watercolor/alcohol marker on watercolor paper bc idk how to do digital art! ~ Capricorn born in the year of the Dragon as seen in header~

[dir-i-elena]

Some more of my favorite blood sucking lady

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Welcome back, Nelyo

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Need more scars....

[echolaliaplayer]

The fujoshevik keeps commissioning socialist realist paintings of sweaty men in factories and cosmonauts holding each other tenderly

[vetyr]

A wall cleared of nails for the ghosts to walk through

Prints here. Another personal piece in the middle of commissions.

[vetyr]

For commission inquiries, email [email protected] <3

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Need more scars....

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shit I missed my window, next week I guess

[the-worm-man]

Reblog on Tuesday to let your followers know it’s safe to leave the bog

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Ozai is so pathetic, like that “take his bending away haha he’s harmless now” trick would never have worked on Zuko, if you took his bending away he’d just grab his swords and come at you twice as hard, Azula doesn’t have swords or anything but she’s pretty good at hand to hand and amazing at talking her way out of problems, Iroh bust himself out of prison with no bending at all, meanwhile Ozai? Gets his bending taken away and then just collapses, doesn’t even try anymore, then just sits in prison and tries to get into Zuko’s head some more, he could have trained up and tried to break out too! But no! Bet he can’t break steel bars with his bare hands. Bet he can’t kick a steel lever in two. Bet he can’t even do a flip.

Also we never really see him do any really impressive firebending apart from when he has magic comet power, I guesss he shoots some lightning at Zuko, but that’s it and Azula is still better at the lightning thing. Azula has blue flames. Zuko can do firebreakdancing and bend with his swords. Does Ozai, who is not 14 years old, have blue flames? No he doesn’t.

He didn’t even do his coup himself, Ursa had to kill Azulon for him! Could have just challenged Iroh to an Agni Kai for the throne but he didn’t bc he knew he’d lose.

And then he only ruled for like 6 years! He lost a war that had been going on for 100 years bc of a bunch of kids.

Loserlord indeed

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[erosofthepen]

in the tolkien fandom u have to be rlly careful when u talk abt the silmarillion bcs like if i just say “oh yeah i read it” ill get bombarded with comments of ppl talking abt heracarthanician or cilibrieous and shit when in actuality i retained absolutely none of the information in the book. like bro. i know there was a demigoddess a dog an oath some gods and a great but tragic red haired warrior elf but thats it, please stop asking about my opinion of the high elf fucksilor in the 46th chapter and how his character that only appeared in one paragraph changed the entire course of the book. i dont know these things

[outofangband]

In The Fall of Gondolin, we learn that Melkor cursed the enslaved Noldor after the Nirnaeth so they suffered from an intense paranoia, always fearing that the Dark Foe was near. If this had happened earlier, or in one of my AUs, I have to wonder how if would have effected Maedhros. 

It also says in The Silmarillion the Maedhros was so wary that Melkor was unable even to attack his camps for several years during one of the sieges. Just some thoughts I want to return to/write more about later. 

this is fascinating to me also, Morgoth sent out various creatures to track down anyone who had escaped Angband. 

[leucisticpuffin]

Nerdanel for @thelien-art's DTIYS challenge!

[ofmiceandwomen]

I’m joining the dtiys challenge by amazing @thelien-art. Of course I had to pick Maedhros. I actually learned to paint fur on the way and I enjoyed every single bit of this challenge.

And I totally have similar design for him which makes it even better.

[vetyr]

Libations

Cover art commission for an upcoming TTRPG book detailing 1000 fantasy drinks. It's beautifully written and the creators put so much love into it—K!ckstarter here!

Thanks to @/httpaladin and @/clericalcleric for being so great to work with!!

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the arc of maedhros

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It got so bad rock was already molten when he hit it

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The House of Fingolfin made with this picrew by @ elenaillustrate.

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concept of Sauron’s Third Age/ LOTR form after he could no longer become beautiful again

“But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which he had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-Earth and to Mordor that was his home. There he took up again his great Ring in Barad-dûr, and dwelt there, dark and silent, until he wrought himself a new guise, an image of malice and hatred made visible; and the Eye of Sauron the Terrible few could endure.” - The Silmarillion, “Akallabêth”, J.R.R Tolkien

(mace and armor referenced from the movies)

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Melian