Tarnin Austa

||May 11 - 17 2025|| ┍━━━━━━━━»•» ☀️ «•«━┑ A commemoration of the life and death of all those who came to love the fair hidden city and call it home, the Gates of Summer begin on the first day of Laer and end one week hence. ┕━»•» ☀️ «•«━━━━━━━━┙ tags: #gondolinweek and #gondolinweek2025.

[gondolinweek]

Hello everyone,

I want to thank everyone who participated in Gondolin Week again this year. I am eternally grateful to everyone who has participated over the years and made it the joy that it has been. That's why it is with a heavy heart that I have to announce that this year will be the last time I host Gondolin Week. I've been having a more and more difficult time coming up with fun and interesting ideas every two years, and I feel that I haven't been able to dedicate as much time to the event as I used to.

I don't want to keep hosting without the enthusiasm that I would normally have for Gondolin and its people, nor do I want to see the event become redundant and uninteresting for you all.

The blog page will stay up, but I'll no longer be updating it or making changes to it in the future.

Thank you all so much.

[overlord-of-fantasy]

Gondolin week prompts 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 25

As @gondolinweek comes to an end, I become increasingly desperate to draw as many prompts as possible, so I stuffed a bunch into one picture:

Here you can see Maeglin, Aredhel and her buddy Egalmoth as well as the hill Amon Gwareth and the mountains of Echoriath and Gondolin.

A young Maeglin, when arriving at Gondolin turns around one last time, wondering if this was a good idea. Aredhel checks on him, while Egalmoth is excited to see his freind again.

[overlord-of-fantasy]

Gondolin week prompt 14: Galdor

The 14th prompt of @gondolinweek is Galdor of the tree. I saw him as some kind of guy, who chains himslef to a tree, to prevent logging comapnies from cutting it down, ever since I read that he basically fights with a baseballl bet wrapped with barbed wire lol

[balrogballs]

Only realised it was @gondolinweek midway through dinner so have a sketchy little monochrome Glorfindel! Shirt open for fan service in order to make up for the lateness 🫶🏽🥹

[pujojoi17042]

Gondolin week ~final part

Maeglin (Aredhel) & Earendil

Egalmoth & Galdor & Penlod & Salgant

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[overlord-of-fantasy]

Gondolin week prompt 13: Voronwe

Prompt 13 of @gondolinweek was Voronwe. I drew him... returning from his cruise. Poor boy.

[overlord-of-fantasy]

Gondolin week prompt 12: Turgon

The 12th prompt for @gondolinweek was Turgon. I decided to draw grandpa Turgon playing hide and seek with little Earendil in the throne room. I would DIE for little Earendil!

[gondolinweek]

“Speak and fear not,” Ulmo says. “And thereafter do as thy heart and valor lead thee.”

This is… almost certainly not what the Lord of Waters had in mind. ______________________

The High King sits upon a dais in the center of the chamber with the sun on his left and the moon on his right.

Tuor blinks. A golden-haired elf on his left and an elf in black and silver on his right. He must be losing his grip, delirious with fatigue and awe. He bows low and steals another glimpse on the way down: a shining lady with an unnervingly direct gaze, decorated in amber and bone; an inscrutable lord with a flinty expression and epaulets of braided chain, his eyes fathomless as the lady’s are luminous.

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Been waiting for Gondolin Week to publish this, hope you’ll enjoy some Idril/Tuor/Maeglin t4t4t romcom!

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[gondolinweek]

Prompt #25

👤 - Gondolin

📑 - “It is said that Turgon appointed its name to be Ondolindë in the speech of the Elves of Valinor, the Rock of the Music of Water, for there were fountains upon the hill; but in the Sindarin tongue the name was changed, and it became Gondolin, the Hidden Rock. Then Turgon prepared to depart from Nevrast and leave his halls in Vinyamar beside the sea; and there Ulmo came to him once again, and spoke with him. And he said: ‘Now thou shalt go at last to Gondolin, Turgon; and I will maintain my power in the Vale of Sirion, and in all the waters therein, so that none shall mark thy going, nor shall any find there the hidden entrance against thy will. Longest of all the realms of the Eldalië shall Gondolin stand against Melkor. But love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West and cometh from the Sea.’”

📍 - The Silmarillion

[gondolinweek]

Prompt #21

👤 - Pengolod

📑 - “This have I, Pengolod, added here, for it was not known unto Rúmil.”

[Pengolod was a keeper of history, content to record its passing rather than to affect it and little is found about him other than the implication of what major events he lived through - the fall of Gondolin being one of them.]

📍 - The Lost Road and Other Writings

[gondolinweek]

Prompt #23

👤 - Cirith Thoronath

📑 - “There was a dreadful pass, Cirith Thoronath it was named, the Eagles’ Cleft, where beneath the shadow of the highest peaks a narrow path wound its way; on the right hand it was walled by a precipice, and on the left a dreadful fall leapt into emptiness. Along that narrow way their march was strung, when they were ambushed by Orcs, for Morgoth had set watchers all about the encircling hills; and a Balrog was with them. Then dreadful was their plight, and hardly would they have been saved by the valour of yellow-haired Glorfindel, chief of the House of the Golden Flower of Gondolin, had not Thorondor come timely to their aid.”

📍 - The Silmarillion

[overlord-of-fantasy]

Gondolin week prompt 11: Tumladen

Pov: you are Luthien and you and your pooky are being rescued by eagels

[gondolinweek]

Prompt #22

👤 - Aredhel

📑 - “Aredhel Ar-Feiniel, the White Lady of the Noldor, daughter of Fingolfin, dwelt in Nevrast with Turgon her brother, and she went with him to the Hidden Kingdom. But she wearied of the guarded city of Gondolin, desiring ever the longer the more to ride again in the wide lands and to walk in the forests, as had been her wont in Valinor; and when two hundred years had passed since Gondolin was full-wrought, she spoke to Turgon and asked leave to depart.”

📍 - The Silmarillion

[overlord-of-fantasy]

Gondolin week prompt 10: Elemmakil

The 10th prompt for @gondolinweek is Elemmakil, so I drew him guarding the *~secret tunnel~* to Gondolin.

[overlord-of-fantasy]

Gondolin week prompt 9

The 9th prompt of @gondolinweek is Idril, so I drew her with her family :D

Look how cute they are!

[gondolinweek]

Prompt #21

👤 - Egalmoth

📑 - “[Egalmoth] had had charge of the engines on the wall; but long since deeming matters to call rather for handstrokes about the streets than shooting upon the battlements he gathered some of the Arch and of the Swallow about him and cast away his bow. Then did they fare about the city dealing good blows whenever they fell in with bands of the enemy. Thereby he rescued many bands of captives and gathered no few wandering and driven men, and so got to the King’s Square with hard fighting; and men were fain to greet him for they had feared him dead. Now are all the women and children that had gathered there or been brought in by Egalmoth stowed in the king’s halls, and the ranks of the houses made ready for the last. In that host of survivors are some, be it however few, of all the kindreds save of the Hammer of Wrath alone; and the king’s house is as yet untouched. Nor is this any shame, for their part was ever to bide fresh to the last and defend the king.”

📍 - The Fall of Gondolin

[overlord-of-fantasy]

Gondolin week prompt 8

Prompt 8 of @gondolinweek was Rog, and as he is my baby, I of course drew him. :D

Here he is killing a dragon.