a collective of non-white hobbit and lotr art

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[valacirya]

@tolkienofcolourweek Days 2, 3, & 4: Elves, Men, and Dwarves

Riz Ahmed as Aragorn

Paing Takhon as Legolas

Cooper Andrews as Gimli

[tolkienofcolourweek]

Tolkien of Colour Week 2023, 31 July - 6 August

Any form of content is welcome 🙂 Tag @tolkienofcolourweek in your post and #tocweek2023. My main is @brighter-arda-main, if I dont like your post within 48 hours please message me.

This year there is a Ao3 collection!

The prompts below are only suggestions, you do not have to use them. There are two sets of prompts - Peoples | Themes. You can use both sets of prompts or just one.

Day 1: Ainur | Faith, Hope, Festivals

Day 2: Elves | Home, Lands, Journeys

Day 3: Men | Ancestors/Descendants, Tradition, Stories

Day 4: Dwarves | Music, Artwork, Clothing

Day 5: Hobbits | Family, Friendship, Romance

Day 6: Mixed | Community, Language, Belonging

Day 7: Freeform | Intersectionality, Sexuality, Gender, Intersex, Disability

Happy creating!

[brighter-arda]

Legacies (Celebrimbor, Gil-galad, Elrond, Aragorn, Arwen)

For @tolkiengenweek

Part 21 of toi's indigenous tolkien series

[Image description. Five images inside a rectangle with text 'we live with legacies' 'we live with ghosts'

1: a Black man with bead necklaces and decorative face scarification. Behind him is flames, around his head is eight pointed stars. In front of him is a eight pointed star and text = Grandson of Fëanor

2: M'Baye Campbell-Kante (a Black man) wearing green on a background of gold crowns. Behind his head is a blood splash that looks like a crown. Text = 'Last High King of the Noldor in Middle Earth' 'Scion of Kings'

3: a shirtless Black man in front of a blue-green door. Text behind him = Earendil was my sire, who was born in Gondolin before its fall: and my mother was Elwing, daughter of Dior, son of Lúthien of Doriath

4: a Black man in leaves. Behind him is the tree of Gondor. In front is text = You are Isildur's heir, not Isildur himself

5: a Chadian woman with black braids. She wears red. Text = it was said that the likeness of Lúthien had come on earth again]

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

@aspecardaweek​ day three ✦ boromir + across the a-spectrum

So time drew on to the War of the Ring, and the sons of Denethor grew to manhood. Boromir, five years the elder, beloved by his father, was like him in face and pride, but in little else. Rather he was a man after the sort of King Eärnur of old, taking no wife and delighting chiefly in arms; fearless and strong, but caring little for lore, save the tales of old battles.

-JRR Tolkien, The Return of the King, “Appendix A: Annals of the Kings and Rulers: Eriador, Arnor, and the Heirs of Isildur”

[ID: A moodboard headcanoning Boromir as aroace. It is comprised of nine images in shades of blue and gold, meant to echo the colors of the aroace flag.

1: Prabhas, an Indian actor with wavy dark hair, light brown skin, a beard and mustache, and a troubled or surprised expression. He is wearing leather armor with gold detailing, gold earrings, and has a few cuts and streaks of dirt on his body / 2: Pale yellow text on a dark blue background reading “don’t be so hard on yourself / 3: Someone wearing golden armor and carrying a helmet / 4: Blue, gold, and white stone / 5: A hall with an arching blue ceiling coffered in gold and patterned with stars. A few large windows are visible / 6: A cyanotype of wildflowers / 7: Tree branches against against a blurred yellow background / 7: Dark blue fabric with gold braid / Prabhas, this time wearing a leather helmet and looking to the left with a focused, serious expression. There is a red symbol painted between his eyebrows /End ID]

[brighter-arda]

Galadriel in aroace colours for Day 1 @aspecardaweek 🧡💛🤍💙🔵

Part 15 of toi's indigenous tolkien series

[Image description: edit in yellow/blue/white/orange

1: Nontobeko Mbuyazi sitting with one arm on her knee. She is a albino Zulu woman. Photo is orange, background is blue, text = Galadriel, Lady of Light

2: art (The Trees of Valinor by Aronja-Art, link to original)

3: white messy fabric

4: Nontobeko Mbuyazi in front of window. Photo has blueish greenish tones and background is yellow. Same text as before

5: Nontobeko Mbuyazi in front of a pale sky. Picture is white and background is yellow. Same text as before

6: a glass beach (beach covered in many-coloured sea glass worn down to pebbles)

7: a blue forest

8: Nontobeko Mbuyazi with orange eye make-up. Photo is orange and background is white.]

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

“Ever your desire is to appear lordly and generous as a king of old…But in desperate hours gentleness may be repaid with death.’

‘So be it,’ said Faramir.”  

-JRR Tolkien, The Return of the King, “The Siege of Gondor”

[ID: An edit comprised of six posters in shades of light brown. 1: A close-up one side of model Jeenu Mahadevan’s face. He has brown skin, dark hair and eyes, and is looking to the right with a neutral expression. White text in the center reads “faramir” in all caps, and underneath in cursive, “captain of gondor” / 2: Light shining through an unseen doorway, making an arch shape on one tan wall of a room with a brown and white-tiled floor. A palm frond leans in one corner. Small white text inset into a thin frame reads “one of the kings of men born into a later time.” There is a white line drawing of a stem of flowers in the center / 3: A vase of leafy branches sitting beside and a metal bowl on a shelf, framed by tan-tiled walls. Large text in all-caps reads “prince of ithilien,” set into a frame surrounding more text, reading “son of the steward denethor & finduilas of dol-amroth,” “younger brother of boromir, high warden of the white tower,” “pupil of the wizard mithrandir,” “husband to the lady éowyn, shield-maiden & princess of rohan,” and “beloved of aragorn elessar & arwen undómiel his queen.” All the names are in cursive / 4: Jeenu Mahdevan, half-reclining on one elbow. He is wearing a striped button-down shirt and is looking to the left. Same text as Image 1 / 5: Jeenu Mahadevan, holding one arm across his body and wearing a white shirt and black jacket. Only the lower half of his face is visible. Same text as Image 1 / 6: A citadel with tan walls, constructed in a traditional middle eastern style. A person is visible standing on a staircase. Text in the same layout as Image 2 reads “but touched with the wisdom & sadness of the eldar.” The flower drawing is upside-down /End ID]

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

They were clad wholly in white; and the hair of the Lady was of deep gold, and the hair of the Lord Celeborn was of silver long and bright; but no sign of age was upon them, unless it were in the depths of their eyes; for these were keen as lances in the starlight, and yet profound, the wells of deep memory.

-JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, “Lothlórien”

[ID: An edit consisting of four posters in shades of pale grey and white with some brown accents. Each poster has a semi-translucent white frame.

1: JoAni Johnson, a model with long silver hair and brown skin. She is wearing a black top and looking ahead with a stern but neutral expression and one hand on her hip. Brown and white script text in the center reads “celeborn” in all caps, framed by a burst of brown and white lines at the upper left / 2: A collection of white and grey flowers, mainly orchids and roses. White text distributed in the corners of the image read “lord of the golden wood” / 3: White leaves in the shape of fans against a white backdrop. Each leaf is accented slightly with brown near the stem. Text in the same layout as Image 2 reads “husband to the lady galadriel” / 3: JoAni Johnson, this time looking straight ahead with her hair hanging forward over her shoulders. Same text as Image 1 /End ID]

[thelien-art]

Aragorn and Arwen, as requested by one of my friends

[tarninausta]

[ID: A drawing of Aragorn and Arwen, kissing. Aragorn has dark brown skin and black curls, wkith the sides of his head being shaved. Arwen's skin is lighter, and her long black hair is wavy. /End ID]

[nibeul]

the prince and the king

[id in alt] | inspiration for Aragorn's design comes from @/tzitzki

[brighter-arda]

Muxe Eowyn

Part 11 of toi’s indigenous tolkien series

[fioblah]

“Legolas Greenleaf long under tree // In joy thou hast lived. Beware of the Sea! // If thou hearest the cry of the gull on the shore, // Thy heart shall then rest in the forest no more.”

tip jar

[arofili]

@tolkienlatamandcaribbeanweek day six | hobbits | belladonna, donnamira, and mirabella took

As I was saying, the mother of this hobbit—of Bilbo Baggins, that is—was the famous Belladonna Took, one of the three remarkable daughters of the Old Took, head of the hobbits who lived across The Water, the small river that ran at the foot of The Hill. It was often said (in other families) that long ago one of the Took ancestors must have taken a fairy wife. That was, of course, absurd, but certainly there was still something not entirely hobbitlike about them, and once in a while members of the Took-clan would go and have adventures. They discreetly disappeared, and the family hushed it up; but the fact remained that the Tooks were not as respectable as the Bagginses, though they were undoubtedly richer.

—The Hobbit, “An Unexpected Party”

[brighter-arda]

Day 4 @tolkienlatamandcaribbeanweek (Dwarves, Religious diversity): The Seven Clans

My day 3 and day 4 entries will be out of order due to computer problems. For day 4 I decided to represent the seven dwarf clans with seven different religions

Part 9 of toi's indigenous tolkien series

[id: images in rows of two.

Row 1 left: text 'Longbeards'. Photo of Jamaican Jews in the middle of a Star of David. The points of the triangle are parts of a photo of the mountain of erebor. Background is from the hobbit movies, a shot of inside of erebor. Row 1 right: Jewish cemetery gate with a star of david, somewhere in the Caribbean

Row 2 left: a santeria altar. Row 2 right: a Black santeria practitioner, text 'Firebeards'

Row 3 left: crowd of black brazilian women in white dresses practicing candomblé. Row 3 right: black and white photo of candomblé altar

Row 4 left: photo of mosque. Row 4 right: woman in hijab and a dress made like a Trinidad and Tobago flag, text 'Ironfists'.

Row 5 left: Taino person in a feathered headdress with necklaces, text 'Stiffbeards'. Row 5 right: art showing Zemi figures (believed to have held religious significance to ancient taino)

Row 6 left: purple Haitian vodou flag. Row 6 right: Haitians practicing vodou underground by firelight, text 'Blacklocks'.

Row 7 left: two indo-caribbean women from the 1800s, text 'Stonefoots'. Row 7 right: unspecified hindu temple

end image description.]

[tarninausta]

O spring-time and summer-time, and spring again after! O wind on the waterfall, and the leaves’ laughter!

[ID: An edit consisting of 12 images.

1: Waterlilies / 2: Actress Laura Harrier, with flowers arranged on her temples and a butterfly on her lips / 3: Pink flowers / 4: Text reading “O slender as a willow-wand! O clearer than clear water!” / 5: A broad quiet river / 6: Yellow roses / 7: Trees with pink blossoms / 8: A hand reaching out to a water lily / 9: Text reading “O reed by the living pool! Fair River-daughter!” / 10: Laura Harrier in the same photoshoot as before, seen in side profile / 11: Blue butterflies sitting on a person’s upper body / 12: A cotttage surrounded by plants / End ID]

[tarninausta]

The master of the house was an elf-friend—one of those people whose fathers came into the strange stories before the beginning of History, the wars of the evil goblins and the elves and the first men in the North. In those days of our tale there were still some people who had both elves and heroes of the North for ancestors, and Elrond the master of the house was their chief.

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, “Rivendell“

@halfelvenweek day 3 ✧ elrond

[ID: An edit consisting of 12 images.

1: Seagulls in flight / 2: Various bowls of herbs / 3: Text reading “Elrond” and “Star-dome” / 4: Black curls held up by a golden pin / 5: A dark eye surrounded by black lashes that turn white a the tip / 6: Pale blue banners / 7: A blue shirt / 8: The hands of a ark-skinned person / 9: Thorny branches / 10: Text reading “Peredhel” ans “Halfelven” / 11: Smoke rising from water / 12: A dark-skinned person in a white shirt with stars along their collarbone / End ID]

[tarninausta]

And behold! There Luthien walked before his eyes in Rivendell, clad in a mantle of silver and blue, fair as the twilight in Elvenhome.

- J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Return of the King”, Appendix A

trans Arwen ⭐ queer tolkien headcanons (4/?)

[ID: A picspam consisting of 12 images in pink, blue, and white.

1: Stars, from space / 2: A woman with brown skin behind a pink veil with golden embroidery / 3: A window in a pink wall / 4: Text reading “Arwen” and “noble maiden” / 5: A peacock with white and golden feathers / 6: A fountain with clear blue water / 7: A woman wearing a pink outfit consisting of shirt, skirt, and a veil and scarf / 8: A golden star garland / 9: Text reading “Undomiel” and “evenstar” / 10: A doorway in a wall built from blue patterned tiles  / 11: A crumpled piece of turquoise, translucent fabric with a golden trim / 12: A meadow of pink flowers /End ID]

[matrose]

the last debate, return of the king