sallysavestheday

old / friendly but rarely effervescent / Tolkien, art reblogs, micro-fics, and miscellany / header by @southaway

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

Insect (and snail) details from The Book of Flower Studies, crafted between 1510 and 1515 in Tours, France by Master Claude de France. Currently in the collection of the Met Cloisters.

[farewell-to-lorien]

Illustrations for Yukio Mishima's The Sound of Waves | Shiosai | 潮騒, by Lâm Tùng Nguyễn.

[afen315]

Finno is pretty upset😔

[peasant-player]

Posting the Lineart for the collaboration with @holy-marmalade

(Who got a texture free version ofc)

I'm SO excited.

Best motivation fr.

Everytime I thought I cut corners I had holy marmalades beautiful Art in my mind and powered through it

😩💕

Accurate depiction of me

[medusabluete]

WIP TIME WHOOP

Got tagged by @curufiin to share a WIP (thanks man!)

So here we have a super unfinished scribbly Eönwë that I'll probably finish once artfight is over! ^^

Tagging: @cirruscorvid , @yewfae , @piskelo10 , @softie-draws and @angband-thrall-no-1035

[chephalopods]

The broken nose changes so much mgmgmgmmfhfjfn

[nobrashfestivity]

Kawase Hasui(川瀬巴水), Night Sea, 1930 (possibly a detail)

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[memories-of-ancients]

String of gold, carnelian, and lapis lazuli beads, City of Ur, Sumer, circa 2475-2300 BC

from The Penn Museum

[sadsilmarilsoup]

Some stuff for @celedrielweek

Partialy inspired by The Kiss by Henry John Stock (the 1894 oil paint version)

[soranatus]

Lúthien, little lover & elven jocks By Cami | morchlav

[nynevefromthelake]

little russingon wip

[xximmortalkissxx]

Aredhel (badass and White Lady of the Noldor) protecting her baby.

[egypt-museum]

Gold Inlaid Bracelet of King Psusennes I

Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, reign of Psusennes I, c. 1047-1001 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 85160

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[nobrashfestivity]

David Muench "Alkali cakes", Death Valley National Park, CA, USA, 1994

[eilinelsghost]

Tidbit Tuesday

Thanks to @from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras for tagging me to share a a WIP snippet. So from the next installment of Atandil:

When Nóm had once attempted to explain this affinity of souls, Balan presumed it was simply that one moved through life with two sets of senses, those innate to the self and those innate to the other they joined. But the actuality of it was something quite different from his anticipation. He did not perceive in double, at least not in the way he conceived of it. This was a chord, not a duet. An added note to the existing senses, a deeper resonance within his own. It was the silk of Nóm’s skin that Balan felt as his lips traveled down to the other’s hips, but there was an elation singing within it, a shivering brightness that arose, he knew somewhere within himself, from the tickle of his beard against that selfsame flesh. And he knew too that it was as much the warmth of his own hunger for this as it was the other’s thrill at the touch of his mouth that called up the sharp gasp, or caused the Nómin's strange, half-holy swears to slip in ragged whispers from the king’s lips. Is this how it’s meant to be? He had murmured the question at some point in the night, Nóm’s head pillowed upon his shoulder with one hand casually tracing patterns along Balan’s chest. The half-felt sense of the other’s perception hummed within him as Nóm’s fingers trailed through the coarse hair and Balan nudged that feeling toward the other’s mind. Or would it be more distinct wert thou joined with one of thine own kind? In truth, I know not. Nóm had drawn one finger along his breastbone with a smile, up over his neck, hovered at the summit of the chin. I’ve never wedded another. He had walked his fingers to Balan’s mouth and traced the bottom lip from end to end, and Balan had shivered with the mingled sensation. But I am happy, I am content. Art thou not?

No pressure tags to @sallysavestheday, @thelordofgifs, @melestasflight, @hobbitwrangler, and @that-angry-noldo if this sounds like fun!

[asinoeiv]

hiii i’d like to request an ilmarë! i love her and eonwë :3

Her design would be something similar to this. Very glowing, very bright. I still have problems making the difference between Valar and Maiar big enough 🤔 I'd be curious how much I would have to scale up Varda's design to make it work compared to her handmaiden.

[asinoeiv]

If the suggestion box is still open, Aegnor and Andreth? Do they have the same height difference as Haleth and Caranthir?

Aegnor is as tall as Caranthir and Andreth is a little bit taller than Haleth.

I love them but I have difficulties connecting with them. While I can think of whole scenes and storylines for halenthir I can't do the same for those two. They are concepts and vague narrative ideas for me. For example that they look like a bird of paradise and a pretty little sparrow or that Andreth reminds me of Eurydike from Hadestown.

Andreth generally gives me the vibes of a romantasy protagonist who didn't get her happy ending. Headstrong, incredibly smart, well read and kind of royal then She falls in love with a noble elven warrior who is the younger brother of the guy that watched her grow up 👀.