#ainur

[casien]

HANG ON JUST ONE DAMN SECOND!!

[beardedmrbean]

[elena-kukanova]

..."At times he will come unseen to the shores of Middle-earth, or pass far inland up firths of the sea, and there make music upon his great horns, the Ulumúri, that are wrought of white shell; and those to whom that music comes hear it ever after in their hearts, and longing for the sea never leaves them again.''

The image of Uinen as a personification of the Sea

2013

2014

2013

A woman and seagulls, seagulls and the sea—a theme I return to again and again, and no matter how much I paint, it's never enough. A salty wind, scented with seaweed, eternity itself, which one can touch and carry away the memory of that touch. An image of freedom, alluring, but with a bitter aftertaste of loneliness.

[the-umaiar-side-has-choco]

Quick marker drawing of Olórin during his years on the Halls of Mandos :)

He's one of the children of Irmo and Este, though his powers are a specialization of his father's Domain. His Valarin name (hc) is Illibūlēz (Dream-maker), as he's the leader of the Dreambringers. Since communications between Houses/Wards mainly occur through the House/Ward Heads, after a few millennia "Dream Bringer" began to refer to Illibūlēz par excellence, and it remained as a nickname even when he went to apprentice with Nienna. For this, the elves of Valinor later will slightly "mistraslste" his name, for in Quenya he's known as Olórin ("Dream Bringer").

His skin is lilac like Irmo's, and his hair are like his father's too. In this form, his head is shaped like almost perfectly round sphere, on which his face "sits" on in the shape of a butterfly's wings. The markings on his upper wings resemble Vairë's eyes, but they are actually just markings. His actual eyes are the six spots on his lower wings (three on each), round and slightly flattened, with the sclerae of the same fuchsia as the spirals in Irmo's. His irises, however, are the same bright "unnatural" red shade as his lips.

His palms are squat and broad, slightly asymmetrical, and his fingers are long and tapered, with slightly curved tips and sharp claw-like edges. Despite this, they do not cut. Instead, they serve to delicately penetrate the unconscious of mortals, and during sleep, combine the abstract figures and memory elements found there to create dreams.

His "clothes" aren't actually clothes but rather the fana itself. The under strate is a robe dark gray outside and cold gray inside. Over it he "wears" a sort of giornea in the shape of a series of overlapping leaves, a callback to the Gardens of Lórien, and with the colors of Autumn, for autumn is the season where nature prepare to sleep. It could also be interpreted as an inverted flame, foreshadowing his future connection with Narya, the Ring of Fire.

His fana has no feet, instead his robe "creeps" over the ground, with the frayed edges that work like the legs of a centipede.

[gracefallingart]

Noble Lady

A return to my old art style in an attempt to soothe a stressful week.

I was working on some more complex art of Melian in this pose in the enchanted woods of her chosen home, but frustration mounted. To prevent myself from losing the spark I had about her I decided to simply make the pose in a simple and dramatic style.

I may return to the 30 hour version I had begun at a later date… but for the moment, colors evade me.

[xenotatts]

It's been a long while.

My child-Maiar oc created straight from the Music

[squirrelwrangler]

For the fanfic ask: for your fic tears: how do you imagine the reunion between Aegnor and Andreth in the afterlife? Which Valar does Andreth enjoy debating with the most?

The headcanon answer for Tears, and the reason why I haven't really written it, is that Andreth returned to Arda is a human who has spent eons in Catholic Heaven (Look, I'm actually an atheist who was raised atheist, so for me the joy of the Athrabeth was that this very Catholic author with a fantasy world that had an afterlife also didn't rule out that after death is just nothing, cessation). So her spirit reentering Arda? No longer mortal and human, really, but something more like an Ainur themselves, which works because Service to the Dead is now also in Tears canon, so Aegnor has been working basically as a Maia of Mandos for Ages now. Aegnor's family face disappointment when they realize that Andreth returning to Aegnor doesn't make him less fae and finally willing to get reembodied the normal way and rejoin Valinorean Eldar society. They visit, but they don't integrate back in.

Andreth enjoys debating with Manwë the most- philosophical, moral, legal topics and a very respectful and gentle guy. Most common is with Mandos, because husband's boss. At first she works with Vairë, because history, and Nienna, but I think she will eventually branch out to another Ainur because she has the chance to learn about something new that she never had the opportunity to in Dorthonion.

[elena-kukanova]

Happy International Dance Day!

I belive that the world was created not only by song, but also by dance

The last picture isn't about ainur, but I really like it=)