#namotober

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Prompt 3 for Namotober: Nienna

So far I haven’t seen much sibling-interaction drawings of Nienna with her brothers :( So here’s my piece! I ended up drawing them in their “humanoid” forms; I imagine these are their forms that are closest to their non-humanoid ones (the designs I’ve been drawing for them). But after meeting the Elves, all the Valar adjust their otherworldly forms to look more like them. You know, so they don’t frighten the Elves so much XDDD

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Namotober day two: Irmo

Irmo is a big weird mothman (he´s also very sleepy)

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It is said by the Eldar that Men came into the world in the time of the Shadow of Morgoth, and they fell swiftly under his dominion; for he sent his emissaries among them, and they listened to his evil and cunning words, and they worshipped the Darkness and yet feared it.

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Prompt 25 for Namotober: Tar-Minyatur

“But to Elros, who chose to be a king of Men, still a great span of years was allotted, many times that of the Men of Middle-earth; and all his line, the kings and lords of the royal house, had long life even according to the measure of the Númenóreans. But Elros lived five hundred years, and ruled the Númenóreans four hundred years and ten.”

-- The Silmarillion, Akallabêth

(I think I’ll end it here for the Namotober prompts! I was going to do Ar-Pharazôn and Tar-Míriel, but I still haven’t figured out my designs for them, and I didn’t want to stress myself out too much over them. Thank you all for following along with my Namotober sketches! <333)

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Prompt 8 for Namotober: Míriel

“But in the bearing of her son Míriel was consumed in spirit and body; and after his birth she yearned for release from the labour of living ... She went then to the gardens of Lorien and lay down to sleep; but though she seemed to sleep, her spirit indeed departed from her body, and passed in silence to the halls of Mandos.”

-- The Silmarillion, Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor

(Heads up for the upcoming sketches -- quite a lot of them have blood, but rest assured there’s no body horror!)

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Prompt 24 for Namotober: Túrin and Nienor

“Then Brandir who had heard all, standing stricken upon the edge of ruin, hastened towards [Nienor]; but she ran from him distraught with horror and anguish, and coming to the brink of Cabed-en-Aras she cast herself over, and was lost in the wild water.”

“Then Túrin set the hilts upon the ground, and cast himself upon the point of Gurthang, and the black blade took his life.”

-- The Silmarillion, Of Túrin Turambar

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Prompt 23 for Namotober: Húrin and Morwen

“But Húrin did not answer, and they sat beside the stone, and did not speak again; and when the sun went down Morwen sighed and clasped his hand, and was still; and Húrin knew that she had died.”

“But it is said that Húrin would not live thereafter, being bereft of all purpose and desire, and cast himself at last into the western sea; and so ended the mightiest of the warriors of mortal Men.”

-- The Silmarillion, Of the Ruin of Doriath

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Prompt 22 for Namotober: Beren and Lúthien

“At the feet of Hírilorn the great beech Lúthien met them walking slow, and some bore torches beside the bier. There she set her arms about Beren, and kissed him, bidding him await her beyond the Western Sea; and he looked upon her eyes ere the spirit left him.”

“But the spirit of Lúthien fell down into darkness, and at the last it fled, and her body lay like a flower that is suddenly cut off and lies for a while unwithered on the grass.”

-- The Silmarillion, Of Beren and Lúthien