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FARAMIR & ÉOWYN
"And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air."
latest finished commission, where i had the opportunity to go with my own vision of the characters, and here's what i landed on... they may look like squares but i know they freak4freak in their hearts etc.
commission me / prints
Legolas having a bit of an existential crisis over just how fast mortals, particularly Gimli, age. Time for him to build his boat.
Made for this months art challenge for the @whumplovers-collaborate on discord, the prompt was embrace, leaf, left to die.
concept of some monarchical jewelry for thorin
things will work out + it’s still early + not everything is lost + trees
LOTR abridged
This is so silly but I'm watching a short video essay on sincerity in cinema and the creator is talking about how he watched Lord of the Rings for the first time at 17. He explains that he'd grown so used to the 'ironic' meta style commentary in the movies of the 2010's that as he was watching the opening narration of LotR, he spent the entire time waiting for the joke to come. For someone to take it all back with a zinger line. He listened to Blanchett describe and explain the backstory, and he waited for the other comedic shoe to drop.
And he kept doing it. Scene after scene.
He spent the film expecting someone to make a joke about how unserious things were or to break the fourth wall or do some other self referential type thing.
Now, maybe I'm just at that point in my cycle or maybe I'm too delicate in general, but I literally teared up hearing that. Straight up cried a bit. It is so fucking sad that sincerity and genuineness is being bred out of people.
People say all the time 'this generation can't take anything seriously!' and really, is it any wonder? Younger people have been trained out of it. You are no longer encouraged to be genuine or show emotion or be honest. You are actively punished for it. In fact, you are almost guaranteed to suffer for it.
That is so fucked up. I'm sorry to go on a bit of a random ramble rant but it's so fucking gut wrenching to see younger people lose that element of themselves. You can't express your passion without being told you're 'crashing out' or 'cringe'. You have to live in this neutral state of fear of perception, and god forbid anybody step outside of it!
You're told you should only consume and succumb and be ironic and emotionless and cool.
Listen, if you're following me and you're like.... 25 or under, let's say. Please. I beg of you. Do not fall for this rhetoric. Please, for the love of all things, feel. Feel and create and be honest with yourself. Indulge in things that make you happy. Be sincere. Wear your heart on your sleeve. Do not let this hyper-capitalistic, hyper-consumerist, self-centred, individualist culture take that from you.
Bleed yourself into the work you create. Live. Don't fucking let anyone tell you different.
I have learned better than to open up in Tumblr posts, but I would like to share something.
When I was a teenager, I was bitter and angry and antisocial, I thought I was an awful person. I was just becoming aware of politics and the politics I had? Not good. I was convinced humans were inherently selfish and abusive and manipulative, because I grew up around adults that were selfish and abusive and manipulative, and I had learned to be like them too. I was unable to connect emotionally with other people or with media; I liked to read a lot but my readings tended to be very superficial.
(I spent a lot of time rolling my eyes at people who did media analysis and watching cringe feminist compilations. I lived life as though it was an argument I had to win and I was miserable.)
Then I read Lord of the Rings.
I think it taught me how to be a person.
It showed me a world where people could be good, uncompromisingly good, where connection had value and where you didn't have to turn around, look at the camera, and point how ridiculous the setting was or how pathetic the characters were.
Troubled people existed, of course. Evil people too. But even them, the story argued, deserved compassion. You know what character I saw myself in the most? Gollum/Sméagol. It's not like the narrative is interested in redeeming him, but it makes an effort to humanize him, constantly reminding us that he was like Frodo once. And it reminded me I was a like Frodo once too, a sensitive, nerdy kid that had been reduced to the worst parts of himself due to a mix of life-shattering trauma, cultural conditioning, and resentful disposition.
It restored something in me, is what I mean. The capacity of seeing good in people, of valuing kindness and compassion. It helped me develop pro-social behaviours, kickstarted the process by which my political worldview went from being on the path to reactionary to full-on proud socialist.
It made me care about art, really care about it. Not as mere entertainment but as the life changing experience it is made to be.
In short, we need more books like Lord of the Rings. Stories that are open and genuine and that inspire people to be better. It might just change someone's life. It might just make the world a better place.
From The Languages of Tolkien’s Middle-Earth by Ruth S. Noel. Though I reject her “makes one wonder” comment entirely. That pun is frankly the crowning glory of the Silm.
Tolkien writing kingdoms' moral decay and eventual decline: they exploited nature, destroyed forests and cut down trees
Tolkien writing male characters' moral decay and eventual decline: he stopped listening to his wife
so we all agree that lord of the rings is a musical
you. you get it
walk into a club like can I tempt you with a cup of camomile
"i asked chatgpt--" well i went to the elves for counsel, and they said both no and yes. so we're all fucked
A couple of Thorin drawings
There are multiple chapters that are set in hospitals where the characters are attempting to recover from injuries that never fully heal. I must once again stress that my experience in WWI was perfectly normal.
There is a giant horrible mudplain full of unrecoverable and perfectly preserved dead bodies that the characters have to walk through in a land where the air is poisoned gas, and on a compLETELY UNRELATED NOTE: WWI WAS TOTALLY FINE AND NORMAL!!
Uh, while my inbox overflows, I'm going to continue posting little fictional guys, ok? Ok.
Gondor Week day 3: Rangers of Ithilien, nature.
I think Legolas' restoration of Ithilien would heal parts of Faramir that he hadn't realized had been hurt. During the war he was so deep in protecting Gondor's borders that he had no time to mourn the degradation of the land, and he never realized how deep a wound it was until he started seeing it come back to life.
Also I thiiiink this is the first time I've drawn these two on their own together? They'd be friends. Like Legolas and Boromir are comrades and provoke the shit out of each other for fun, but Faramir connects with Legolas on a more personal level, and given the rebuilding/resettling of Ithilien by both Gondorians and Silvans, they'd develop one of the only friendships in this messy group that isn't founded on shared trauma.
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