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Local high priest in Númenor would like you to give up your children for the lord and Savior, Tar Melkor, but make sure they are willing to join the lord of all. No, this is not a cult.

Something, something, I think it was pretty important for our local cult lead- I mean priest, that sacrifices were willing - correction, I think there were two kinds of sacrifices:

The willing sacrafise, made to believe this was not death but merely a journy to serve Melkor - Mairon would need these to be willing as he would bring them as a form of messanger, maybe even to en extend convincing himself in his delusion that they would reach Melkor.

The unwilling sacrifices would be prisoners of war, criminals, and slaves. These were not meant as messengers, although it was still an honor, not that these sacrifices saw it as such, meant to show acceptance and thankfulness for Melkor, and appease him.

Whoa, I was not prepared for this to be a HC drop, but I started writing this in the tags, and it just felt wrong, so like... here we are, I guess..? only one of my smt smt stayed in the tags XD

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A Teeny Tiny Curvo Standing On A Honeysuckle

(from my Flowery Finwians series)

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Aulë & Yavanna

Manwë & Varda

I headcanon both Aulë and Yavanna as some of the more reclusive Valar. Aulë at least interacts with the Noldor and his students, but that is about that, which I tried to make visible in my designs of them.

I tried to make Aulë a mix between the Noldor and Dwarves, with his beard in greyish skin from the dwarves, and then the braided hair and the ornement holding it away from his face like the Noldor, as well as his white apron. Yavanna´s skin is bark, and her hair changes depending on the seasons, she isn´t interested in "clothes" beyond her form, as she just as easily might walk out of a tree or turn into one. She only really wears jewelry and small bells in her horn like branches because Aulë makes them for her, and in thanks, she makes him flower crowns or bundles.

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I've been enjoying drawing chibi a lot lately...

I was thinking about drawing the oldest grandchildren of Finwë and the company from BG3 but I can't decide which to draw first

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Manwë & Varda

Thirteen more to go :´)

I imagine the Valar, especially Manwë and Varda, took a lot of inspiration for their appearance (clothes, body, etc) from the first Elves who came to Valinor, so when they began changing and separating even more in culture, Vanya, Noldo, Teleri, the Valar, in a sense, became more ethereal as they still wore clothes that would have been worn by lake Cuiviénen, while the Elves changed completely.

I also imagine that while one can feel if they are near a Valar, that they never really look natural, they can never really obtain a realistic body, so when the Elves arrived in Valinor, the Valar, to seem more friendly, tried to seem like one of them, hence imitating their clothes, but as the years wore on they never really noticed the change of the Elves culture and when they did they didn´t bother to change their own patterns.

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Angbang in the snow :) - Utumno

My PFP for December :)

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Lúthien and Huan😌

I´m trying to get back to posting my art, so I´ll see how I feel about posting this, and then, depending on it, I´ll begin posting my other drawings I haven´t shared. Lúthine W/O Huan below

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Treat for @abels-artworld´s TolkienRSB story, because I got to have a little sneak peek of the best scene ever written by man! So here is Lindir and his little beetle friend :)

The main art is here, as well as the link for when the story goes live