I hope y'all doing well :) I finally decide to wrote a summary of my oc's life Lílu Noakes !
It's a loooong summary of her life, but I thought it would be cool to have the whole chronology of her story! What's more, it will allow me to draw some of the stages of her life mentioned in the summary I've written.
I hope you'll enjoy discovering what I've imagined for her, and that it'll give you a bit of context on this OC that I love so much! 💚
For those of you who are interested, I've written this on a special page on my tumblr (below my PFP you'll find an emote sheets of paper, when you move your mouse over it it says : Lílu's story) Otherwise for the mobile version here's the link right here: HERE !
At the end of January I decided to take part in the #PistachioFTIYS created by @pistachiozombie where I had to draw her two OCs that I'm particularly fond of: Leanna and Boru 💚
The drawing is based on a sketch by @pistachiozombie and I then interpreted my illustration on top of it.
I wanted to show Leanna considering starting a family with Boru when she sees a mummy bird with her babies. Boru inevitably notices her gaze and immediately understands what Leanna sees in it.
If you don't know @pistachiozombie OCs, head over to her blog and let yourself be amazed by all the content she's created around them!
🌿Finally time to choose the winners for my FTIYS Contest!🌿
I wanna mention first, that hosting contests is one of the most bittersweet things to me. I know in the end, out of a group of artists, I will have to choose one or two winners, even though I love them all.
I know what it feels like to lose contests, it's a terrible, gutting feeling.
I want these artists to know that even though you did not get first or second place, it does NOT mean you or your art is bad, or has no value.
The way I see it, these artists CHOSE to participate in my contest, sitting down and putting hours of effort for a chance to win a prize. Not only that, but they are possibly stepping out of their comfort zone, or trying new things with this contest.
That is so honorable as someone who holds their OCs to their heart. So thank you to all who participate in my contest.
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🌿First Place: by @lilunoakes ♥ !
🌿Second Place: @lorbalith ♥ !
🌿Added a third cause it was too hard: @feyroon !
🌿Those who art I appreciate so very much but are runner ups! Please check their page and art out for more wonderful dreamy work!
Look at these backgrounds! Look at that effort!! So absolutely stunning!
🌿As a huge thank you I am offering to draw a sketch to everyone who entered. Please let me know what you'd like!
🌿These will be proudly displayed for Lavender Skies ♥ Thank you everyone, hope to see you next contest!
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🌿Imagine Context: Falling deeply in love on an adventure you thought you'd never have, pining and romantic tension fluttering through the air every time you shared space, only to eventually part ways - unwillingly - several times. During your separation, you are critically injured and taken to an unknown place. You wake up from a realistic fever dream that you were together, and wipe away the tears of frustration that dampened your pillow. Confused, sick, alone. Then, the sound of someone urgently coming towards your closed door echoed through your chilly room.
I really love your writings and I saw that you take requests ? 👉🏻👈 What would your headcanons be about each Thorin's company members taking care of you if you were injured during a quest while trying to defend them?
Heck yeah! Thanks for your patience as I go through the many I got 🥰 I love this request!
Warnings: minor blood/injury mentions, suggestive jokes
Thorin’s Company Taking Care of Your Injuries
Balin
✧ Sadness overtakes his dark eyes, but he knows you- you’ll pull through.
✧ Gives Oin his space to work, waiting instead where you’ll be lain afterward as he’s asked permission to help clean you up afterward. If he wasn’t so level-headed, in fact, he’d have demanded it.
✧ Can’t help but ask you what you were thinking pulling a daring move like that, but you just give him a weak smile and tell him he’s worth taking an arrow for.
✧ Pulls you into his embrace, kissing the top of your head and telling you he thinks you’re much more worth it, but thank you from the bottom of his old heart.
✧ His touch is the second gentlest beyond the healer’s, so you have as little complaint as you could at how often he changes your bandages and sits you up to make sure you are clean.
Dwalin
✧ The most stubborn. Confident you’re fine, he shakes his head at you for being reckless as he lays you down in your healer’s tent. He knows you’re a fighter- too much of a fighter, if this is any indication.
✧ Gets right in there and helps bandage you, completely unafraid of a little blood. Or a lot of blood. Nothing he hasn’t seen before.
✧ Sits beside you with his arms crossed, asking what possessed you to do that. Softens considerably when you tell him you barely thought, your love for him took over.
✧ Cue Oin walking in on his comrade passionately locking lips with his patient like life was ending that very moment.
✧ Comes across dry with his care to you, but it’s because he’s struggling to forgive himself and doesn’t know how to say it. “Don’t do that, you’re bleeding. I said stay down. Take it up with Oin, not me.”
Thorin
✧ Will be the one to carry you all the way to the healer’s bed no matter what it takes, no matter what injuries he himself sustained.
✧ Lays you down so gently, cradling your head in his hand as he searches for any light in your eyes. When you smile faintly up at him he pulls your head against his chest.
✧ Gives you space, lets Oin work on you, but the moment you’re back in bed he’s at your side with your hand in his, all but snapping at anyone who tries to take him away from you.
✧ Curses his own lack of attention that led you hear, forcing you to shake your head and tell him no, you did what you did out of love and care for him.
✧ Does everything in his power to help you in return, keeping your wounds clean and checking your temperature and staying knelt there as long as he must, telling you how much he loves you again and again.
Oin
✧ Would have been the one to do it anyway, but believe me when I say he will not let a single other soul touch you. You’re under his care and his care alone.
✧ Talks to you even if you’re unconscious, shaking his head and tutting and asking why you’d do that even as he smiles and thanks and blesses you.
✧ For nearly the first time, he finds his hands shaking as he works. If you’re awake and feeling up to teasing him about it, he just uses the moment to reiterate how much he cares for you… and tell you to hold still with a quick but firm kiss.
✧ Pulls out all the stops for your treatment, even using scarcer ingredients he’d hoarded for a long time if he thinks they’ll help.
✧ Rewards all your good behavior, whether it’s taking medicine or gritting through the pain of having things set or bandaged, with a peck on the lips.
Gloin
✧ Oscillating between cheering with pride over your amazing moves and pacing with the stress of knowing you’re hurt.
✧ Tells you how strong you are and how you’ll be back and your feet in no time!
✧ Worst thing for it, though, is just to be laying around just thinking about the pain, so he brings his games in to distract you and keep himself busy when you fall asleep.
✧ Reminds you what a perfect team you two are, for you may have taken an orc’s slash for him, but he ended up taking it down just for you.
✧ Tells you to squeeze his hand if you feel any pain. Regrets that immediately when you practically crush the life out of it, but he’ll never give that fact away for anything!
Bifur
✧ Visibly distraught, knowing how one wound can change a life. Probably demands to watch Oin the entire time.
✧ Needs a hug the moment you’re done just to feel you in his arms and reassure himself, and you cannot deny the comfort it brings you, too.
✧ If you’re the type to pick at your wounds or bandages, know that Bifur will be right there to wordlessly smack your hand away and give you a chastising look.
✧ He becomes clingier, though, in your time of infirm, not only staying by your side but always connected in some way, whether it’s a hand on yours or stroking your head or even him taking you into his arms and resting his head atop yours.
✧ Insists on some very odd herbal remedies that Oin unfortunately backs him up on, nodding and giving a gleeful grin when you reluctantly agree.
Bofur
✧ Refuses to let go of your hand unless Oin physically has to move or handle it for your treatment.
✧ Holds your face in his hands, telling you you’re the bravest most wonderful fool he’s ever met, punctuating every compliment with a kiss.
✧ Sneaks you a flask, saying taking a few sips will surely ease the pain you feel!
✧ Sings you lullabies to help you get your healing rest. Even if you aren’t trying to rest he’ll sing you comforting songs or even silly little uplifting ones complete with even the most ridiculous dance moves. Laughter is the best medicine, after all!
✧ It’s as if he knows what you need before you do. You’ll think of something that might ease your recovery and moments later there is Bofur offering it to you, saying he was thinking you might need it.
Bombur
✧ Paces back and forth outside Oin’s tent in a panic, practically flying into the flaps the moment he is allowed.
✧ Both his hands go to yours, holding it as he asks if you are all right.
✧ Starts to yank you into a hug the moment you day yes, stopping only at Oin’s reminder that that may not be the best idea right now.
✧ Brings you bowls of the best broth he could make, feeding you spoonful by gentle spoonful.
✧ Holds you in his arms and kisses you so softly as if you could somehow break beneath his loving touch.
Dori
✧ The last thing you hear as your tired eyelids flutter shut is Dori scolding you for jumping right into danger.
✧ He picks up again when you awake, but the moment you smile at him he’s lost, pulling you into a kiss with a hand on either side of your face.
✧ Tucks you in your blankets the coziest you have ever been, asking if there is anything else he can bring- anything in the world and it’s yours.
✧ Can be heard arguing with Oin about his methods, especially if they dare hurt you or are more experimental. Healing hurts sometimes, but bless him, he wishes he could take every single ounce of pain from you.
✧ May dodge a bit from the blood your wound oozes, but he certainly isn’t afraid to listen to you describe your pain or what you need in any detail.
Nori
✧ You’ll wake up to him practically pouncing you onto the bed asking what you were thinking pulling a stunt like that.
✧ Kisses you again and again, uncaring of who might be watching.
✧ He has…very creative ways he suggests as attempts to ease the pain depending on the nature of your injury. And, of course, if you’re up for them.
✧ If not, a few rounds of cards’ll keep you busy just the same, and he’ll admit it’s a lot less effort.
✧ Sleight of hand skills come in handy sometimes! He can entertain you with magic tricks, deftly change your bandages with you barely noticing, steal some of Bofur’s whiskey for you to share…
Ori
✧ Constantly asking if you’re going to be alright, which would annoy your company healer if it weren’t so blasted sweet.
✧ Tries to jump in and help, forcing Oin to remind him that he never has set a bone before, has he? He, in fact, has not.
✧ The moment you’re released, you bet he’s right at your side doing everything else under the sun he can. Covering you up with blankets, bringing you water or food and feeding it to you, fetching water and a cloth to keep you cool and clean.
✧ “Don’t scare me like that,” he all but whines your name, “besides, I almost had it!” “Keyword there being almost,” you shoot back with a half-smile, half-wince. “Alright, fair. Thank you. Really.”
✧ Brags about how amazing you are and how there’ll be all kinds of stories about you. You snort and refute this, to which he replies, grinning and holding up his book: “There will be, too. I’m writing them.”
Fili
✧ Wild horses could hardly drag him from your side.
✧ Hovers over Oin the entire time the older dwarf sees to you, even going so far as holding onto things he’ll probably need and handing them to him like an assistant.
✧ Sets up his bedding adjacent to yours in case either of you falls asleep, and of course so you can cuddle him. Oh, all right, he wants to cuddle you too, you got it out of him!
✧ “You’re wonderful.” Kiss. “Brave.” Kiss. “Mad.” Kiss. “Quite the terror to those orcs, even if the one did catch you in the end. Saw some heads fly thanks to you, love.” A much longer, more appreciative kiss.
✧ Can’t sleep? Don’t fret, Fili is there to share stories of his family, of adventures with Kili, their mother, maybe even something funny about Thorin his uncle wouldn’t particularly appreciate him telling you…
Kili
✧ Carries you to bed himself. Every night if need be, he’ll be there for you or even throughout the day to support you and help you walk.
✧ When you’re being worked on, he wants to look away, but he keeps his eyes on you throughout every moment, your hand firmly in his.
✧ Definitely jokes about kissing your wounds better. Teasingly makes to lift up your clothes ‘to see the scar’.
✧ Runs for Oin the moment you express any pain; he knows the feeling, after all, and as he tells you he cannot help the guilt he feels at indirectly causing this, even if you insist it was your choice.
✧ Holds you close, resting your foreheads together as he thanks you for loving him enough to put yourself in this state. “I would do the same for you, you know.”
Bilbo
✧ Deeply insistent that you eat and drink to maintain your strength, even if he has to feed you himself.
✧ Exasperated beyond anything if you tell him you’re fine or try to get up. Gives you the look. You know the look.
✧ If you have bloody bandages, he will help you change them, just looking away and trying not to gag most of the time.
✧ Piles a near-comical amount of blankets on you, forcing you to remind him he needs to keep at least one for himself. Bilbo refuses, thus you invite him into your sickbed with you. He only accepts because you’re ailing and that overrides the impropriety of it all.
✧ Seeing you in pain is so hard, but the one thing that helps Bilbo get through it is realizing it’s emboldened him to tell you just how much you mean to him. It’s a little awkward to get it out, but as he holds your hand and looks into your eyes it is nothing but worth it.
Thank you so much I loooove it! You’ve captured them so well I can only imagine them easily 💚 The first thing about Gloin made me laugh aha and there is so much fluff with all of them thanks again for having taken the time to write all this 💚🌻
The fact that Fili carries so many daggers and swords around with him will always make me laugh + the contrast with Kili, who has "nothing", is all the more fun.
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Tolkien said that one of the things he didn't like about LotR was that the book was too short.
In a way I agree with him, because I found the ending so rushed [others always say "that evil" is destroyed in the middle of the book and everything after is just an long epilogue] and yet I found it rushed. And I wanted a lot of the appendices to be narrated chapters, it was interesting to see what the lives of each member of the Fellowship were like in the appendices, but I wanted chapters about.
And I would also like to have seen, narrated chapters, of the Battle of Dale, with Brand (Son of Bain, son of Bard) and Dáin fighting three days against enemy armies and dying. I wish had read a narrative of Thranduill and Celeborn uniting in Mirkwood and destroying Dul Guldur once and for all, and then dividing the region between them.
When LotR informs that the others would not come to battle because they already had war at their gates, I wanted the plot to split to show this in other parts.
A better development of the romance between some characters would also be interesting, the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen already makes me cry every time I read it, but I feel like it would be more interesting as a narrative than an appendix. If their marriage went on for another 100 pages I wouldn't mind. And I would like Arwen and Elrond's conversations not to be just subtext.
Faramir and Éowyn, I really love them as a couple, but I think more pages dedicated to their romance would also be interesting. Sam and Rose? I would have liked it more if we had more mentions of the girl throughout the journey, if Sam mentioned her more often throughout the plot, so maybe the end wouldn't seem so sudden.
When I say that don't like the development of the "love pairings" in LotR, it's not that I don't like the characters or the ships, but that the narrative wasn't enough for me.
Don't get me wrong, I love LotR. But I wanted there to be more to be "narrated" than "told" or "implied" or "pointed out in the appendices."
Yes, I also thought the book was too short.
There is a lot between the lines that could come to light more. It could have been another thousand pages. And perhaps it still wasn't enough. How could anyone think that LotR is a very long book?
Maybe that's the problem with Tolkien creating such a complex Universe with such interesting characters: no matter how long the book was, it would never be enough. Because as a fan, I would always want more and more of it. More immersion at all points.
Is it always like this with authors who create universes that seem so incredible to read? And when it's gone, it's not enough to fill the void.
And all the posthumous books, like The Silmarillion, or Unfinished Tales (and others), with the tone of "organized drafts" and "told" instead of narrated most of the time, weren't enough for me. I still wanted so much more. And I never will have it.
Don't get me wrong, I liked the posthumous books, I think Christopher Tolkien did a good work. But still, when reading, I always asked myself "if this had been published by Tolkien during his lifetime, would it have been like this? What would he have changed yet? What would he have more refined?".
Because, as much as other fans like to see posthumous books as a "canonical" part of the work, like complements. I can only see as unfinished drafts, which it truly are. No matter how well organized are, even The Silmarillion is just a draft organized in the best way, Christopher T says this.
The letters don't count for me either, because Tolkien changed his mind about several things, just like in the drafts.
So I feel that, although the Tolkien Universe is vast, there are a lot of drafts and letters, and little work is actually completed.
I liked the posthumous books and the fact that they expanded the universe even further and provided more information. But it becomes a “vicious cycle”, as the information contained there also brings more desire for it be narrated by Tolkien himself in an book he finished (but will never be! Unfortunately).
And that saddens me. Because I wanted so much more. And Tolkien didn't live long enough to give it. In the end, it's a mix of happiness for what Tolkien gave, and sadness for what he still could have given.
