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ye olde art dump dragon age || e33 || tolkien prints

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pleurer en couleur (to cry in color)

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lumière s'éteint (light dies)

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Inspired by the second line of this verse from "Lumière s’éteint" (spoilers):

Si le temps se perd à contre-courant, If time loses itself to the tide, Les miroirs sans tain dévoilent leur nature One-way mirrors reveal their nature Si nos pulsations jouent à contre-cœur, If our hearts beat against their will, Notre amour veillera sur la mesure Our love will guard the rhythm Lumière s’éteint Light dies

Who can see whom through a one-way mirror depends on which side is brighter. As light (lumière) fades, a mirror becomes a window, and an illusion breaks.

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pour ceux qui ne cessent de s'aimer (for those who never stop loving each other)

E33 screenshot sketch dump: Gustave edition

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[...] Turgon said: 'Fight not against doom, O my children! Seek ye who may safety in flight, if perhaps there be time yet: but let Tuor have your lealty.' But Tuor said: 'Thou art king', and Turgon made answer: 'Yet no blow will I strike more', and he cast his crown at the roots of Glingol. Then did Galdor who stood there pick it up, but Turgon accepted it not, and bare of head climbed to the topmost pinnacle of that white tower that stood nigh his palace. - The Fall of Gondolin

Tolkien in Color: The House of Finwë (part 13/x) < part 12 ||

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rest(er)

treat for @fadesense in this year's Viperquin exchange.

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E33 screenshot sketch dump: Verso edition

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Nicole Parker (American, b. 1994, based Mount Airy, MD, USA) - Bedtime, 2021, Paintings: Oil on Linen-wrapped Panel

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But in that hour, Finarfin forsook the march, and turned back, being filled with grief, and with bitterness against the House of Fëanor [...] and many of his people went with him, retracing their steps in sorrow [...] But his sons were not with him [...] - The Silmarillion, "Of the Flight of the Noldor"

Tolkien in Color: The House of Finwë (part 12/x)

< part 11 || part 13 >

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My art piece for @jayvikbigbang in collaboration with @navree. Fic here!

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Revenant for @tolkienrsb 2025 in collaboration with @mossquitoman. Here's part of the original art prompt:

Whether it's the Oath's effect upon the Sons of Fëanor or the Rings' corruption of the Nine, the legendarium is rife with characters who have been twisted or otherwise corrupted by forces beyond their control. Despite this, some traces of what these poor creatures originally were must still be in there somewhere... right? Do they struggle against themselves? Can others around them see what remains? Or are they just forever trapped, screaming into the void?

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Elena Yushina, (Ukrainian b.1958), Where Broken Dreams, Oil on canvas

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another tashur thing

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Daniel Robbins (American b.1984), 3:45 p.m., 2014, Oil on canvas

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Elu Thingol for Stella Getreuer-Kostrouch's talk Cherished antagonist, despised protagonist - a defence of Elu Thingol at Mereth Aderthad 2025 (free fanzine download here).

Thanks to the SWG staff for your herculean cat-herding efforts!

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The third son of Fingolfin, Arakáno (Argon), emerged in the course of the making of the genealogies. A pencilled note on the last of the four tables says that he fell in the fighting at Alqualondë; this was struck out, and my father notes that a preferable story was that he perished in the Ice. It is curious that this third son, of whom there had never before been any mention, entered (as it seems) without a story, and the manner of his death was twice changed before the remarkable appearance here of 'the first battle of Fingolfin's host with the Orks, the Battle of the Lammoth,' in which he fell. - The Peoples of Middle-Earth, “The Shibboleth of Fëanor” (note 38)

Tolkien in Color: The House of Finwë (part 11/x) < part 10 || part 12 >

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Jan Waldron, The Black Cat Considers the Road Ahead, 2025, Watercolor, gouache, and ink

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Art dump of a few Ashur concepts I've been messing around with recently + a bonus low-res Tarquin doing anatomically questionable things with a stick