#irmo

[peasant-player]

Master of Desire

God of dreams and Visions Irmo ✨️

Pushing my "Irmo is very hot in a spiritual & ethereal vibe" propaganda to you all

I think Tolkien should have elaborate on that master of desire part 😤

Here is his portrait I did for my valar serie~

[atiac]

valar

[gracefallingart]

Irmo Lórien

Irmo is the Lord of Dreams and Visions and the Vala associated with Desire. He is often called Lórien after his famous Gardens of Rest, where he spends most of his time.

Irmo is the brother of Nienna the Lady of Sorrow and Námo the Master of Souls. He is married to Estë, the Valie of Healing.

I have always associated him with moths, so here he is as I always pictured him.

Who should I do next?

[vimeralinda]

[outofangband]

I love thinking about the domain of Irmo, who “loved twilight and flittering shadows”. The Master of Dreams and Visions plays but a small role in the stories but each line, especially the rich descriptions of his realm in The Book of Lost Tales, are so interesting to me.

I also love the potential for horror and the strange and uncanny within the powers and domain of each Vala and Irmo especially is fun.

His physical domain is a place of illusions and shifting paths. Glades with springs where the mere mist that rises off them is enough to lull the unsuspecting into a trance. Elves can become easily lost in those gardens and there are tales of souls who sleep for years before being found, entangled in scented vines and night flowers. Waterfalls reflecting kaleidoscopic colors and trees tended by strange pollinators.

Boundaries shift and blur in a thousand ways.

And of course the Maiar who once served him who now serve Melkor are capable of other terrifying deeds. The guardians of Angband’s nightmares, the crafters of cruel illusions and masks, who can deny sleep and induce it, who can wear a million faces or none at all.

[sakasakiii]

started off as me redrawing some of my initial mairon designs and ended up going on an rpg tangent 😭 i really wish i could have done the portraits in a pixel art style to better fit the aesthetic but my canvas wasnt the right size!!! i ended up changing annatar completely (im still contemplating how much i prefer this one compared to his old one however...!) and adjusting post-numenor sauron a bit when compared to their old 2022 sketches! im probably gonna do more redraws in the months to come cause of all the stuff i wanna change when i look back to some of my old designs haha 😳

bonus: void delusions (nebula background designed by Freepik)

i like to think each 'form' sauron takes eventually has different mannerisms and likes/dislikes the longer he stays in them without shapeshifting into something else, but one thing they all have in common is being predisposed to nagging melkor 😎

[joetamy]

Finally having some time to draw for myself, I have been able to make a new design for Irmo! It has been about time. Many thanks to @nightmares-dw for the idea to draw him! <3 I have looked back on his older design, and oh my, there sure was an idea back then, but it was far from refined. It is very exciting to make something that genuinely shows me how far I have come.

Sketches below the line~

These were the first couple of ideas, which began with some inspiration from his previous design. I wanted to use imagery that hasn't been often used, broken mirror pieces, dun dials and such. To get the vibe down, I draw a small piece of what I imagine his main hall would look like. ^v^

Final sketch~

[thelien-art]

Irmo & Estë

Manwë & Varda┃Aulë & Yavanna┃Oromë & Vána┃Námo & Vairë

Irmo is inspired by multiple different butterflies put together. His body is wings wrapped around wings, in contrasting colours. Estë is lavender inspired, as I find them calming, and I am sure I am not the only one who does that. I like the idea of her wearing something below her grey robes, a shout of colourful life, so I chose blue and orange.

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