#enterpretations

[ent-maiden]

LOTR but Gollum is wearing nought but a ragged, crusty old pair of jorts

I'm actually a clothed-Gollum truther but I was messing around on Hero Forge and I was inspired.

[ent-maiden]

POV: you’re sturdy, but you’re a hobbit

“That Strider is mighty sus, Mister Frodo.”

First time drawing Aragorn.

I was trying to make him tall and rascally as possible. I don’t think I succeeded.

But behold! He has no beard yet does not look like an elf nor a woman.

[ent-maiden]

A Young Lady  Dís

They are in voice and appearance, and in garb if they must go on a journey, so like to the dwarf-men that the eyes and ears of other peoples cannot tell them apart. This has given rise to the foolish opinion among Men that there are no dwarf-women, and that the Dwarves 'grow out of stone'. Appendices Return of the King

For the Naugrim have beards from the beginning of their lives, male and female alike; nor indeed can their womenkind be discerned by those of other race, be it in feature or in gait or in voice, nor in any wise save this: that they go not to war, and seldom save at direst need issue from their deep bowers and halls. The War of the Jewels

For my dwarf woman I gave her a beard, but I figure they have a different facial hair pattern from the men so I didn't give her a mustache. I wanted to give her a strong but feminine build and beautiful clothes that you would expect to find on a princess. Not a body builder, just strong. Victorian Strongwomen came to mind. I picked Vulcana as my reference because her poses looked the most regal.

As you can see she is just a pretty typical looking woman but she could carry a man in one hand.

For the second image I drew her in male dwarf traveling garb, as that is apparently what dwarf women would wear going out. It practically obscures her figure in the manner she wears it.

[ent-maiden]

But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things--and the things that are not--to nullify the things that are. So that no one may boast before God. 1 Corinthians 1:27-29

It is my favorite Bible verse. And it makes me think of the 4 hobbits (and ex-hobbit) that brought an end to Sauron's dominion. They were unlikely but without them Middle Earth wouldn't be saved

Pippin is foolish, but by rescuing himself and Merry he lead to the destruction of Isengard and got to enjoy some creature comforts. (Later he fooled the Dark Lord himself.)

Merry has the small strength of a hobbit but he made vulnerable the Witch King who thought himself invulnerable.

Frodo is lowly, a mere hobbit, Smeágol is a despised creature, Sam is "nought but a ninnyhammer" but they destroy what is considered perhaps the most important object in Middle Earth.

Sauron can be no god of Middle Earth. He is utterly destroyed.

[ent-maiden]

"You see her when you close your eyes

Maybe one day you'll understand why

Everything you touch surely dies..." -Let Her Go by Passenger

Finduilas and Denethor. And a white tree. Heavily referenced this art by Jake Rathkamp because I don't know how to draw trees.

I'm sort of amused that apparently my Denethor interpretation is basically Weird Al Yankovic.

[ent-maiden]

Two magical dudes

the blue wizards

in watercolor and pencil.

Tolkien OC Week: Day 4 Forgotten Characters. Not exactly forgotten, but Tolkien ignored these dudes enough in LOTR they might as well be. I suspect they were already killed by the events of LOTR since being missionaries and revolutionaries can be a dangerous job. RIP blue wizards.

I think Pallando is the guy on the left and Alatar is the guy on the right because the guy on the left has a very friendly expression while the guy on the right is more solemn. The guy on the left just seems like the friendly friend you need for a mission. But interpret it how you want. I don't really care who's who. Their appearances were inspired by how I imagine Easterlings and Haradrim would look. So central Asian (with a Vietnamese hat because I saw it on fan art and I liked it) and Persian.

Because I waited so long between drying layers I barely got this in before midnight.

[ent-maiden]

"He felt the cool mud about his toes as he paddled in the Pool at Bywater with Jolly Cotton and Tom and Nibs, and their sister Rosie." (Lotr pg. 939)

Sam has a beautiful, tormenting memory

I really wanted to draw this and only watercolor could do, even though I had never painted a background before. Interesting how he has paddled but clearly never learned to swim. Anyway I put a lot of effort into representing their comparative ages with Sam being in the front next to Rosie. (I found out she is slightly older than him!) Only once I started painting them did I realize Hobbits age differently but whatever.

[ent-maiden]

Parent child relationship @tolkienfamilyweek

This was originally going to be the "Well, I'm back scene but then I realized I didn't know what age Elanor was at that point or if Rosie was pregnant so I just genericized it.