#oromë

[sailooorm]

Plum!💜

[asinoeiv]

Someone wrote that my stuff looks serious but is silly 80% percent of the time and I laughed but now I'm slighty nervous about posting too much silly stuff.

Anyway... this is the last of the screenshot overdraws I had on my wip, so I really hope i have enough energy to do bigger stuff on the side.

Oh, and a nice detail I wanted to point out is that I used the antlers of a Eucladoceros for oromë.

[mandhos]

[antares0606]

Summer Fun by the lovely @sauroff who never says no to me

[valardoommerung]

I'm a big fan of Oromë's Onomastics School. His horse is named "Neigh". His dog is literally called "Dog". When asked by the Elves what "Oromë" means, he told them "It's my name, it means me." Iconic.

[silmalope]

Some Valar designs (+ Uinen!)

[laurie-fish]

"I lowkey thought a Valar would know how to dodge, so I guess we're both disappointed."

Celegorm | Dieties, for c&c week :)

Close ups:

(based off of and referenced from that one meme)

@cnc-week

[outofangband]

An underrated bit of horror that’s on my mind is that when Morgoth first appears as a dark shadow among the first elves, he becomes known to them in their dawning language as the dark rider or the black rider, at least in my translation.

We know this was likely in part because Morgoth knew that Oromë had begun to search for the elves and that beneath Oromë was Nahar, the very first horse, proverbial (and literal) sire to all horses. Indeed many elves feared Oromë when he approached, just as Morgoth had hoped and planned they would.

What I wonder often is what shape Morgoth rode upon to mock and distort Nahar and thus, horses. Longer limbs, sharper teeth, a shadowy form to move through the forests…

Perhaps it was created in part to mock Oromë who may have been tasked with hunting the monster. Forcing Oromë to slay a beast created in the likeness of his loyal companion seems like something Morgoth would enjoy.

Whatever monster he created in Nahar’s image, it presumably was not fully successful; horses remained an important friend to the elves throughout the ages. It was Nahar that survived more powerfully in their collective memory, not Nahar’s doppelgänger

But perhaps the shadow still remains. In folktales, whispered rumors among Oromë’s hunters, strange dreams and drawings, expressions regarding the behavior or illnesses of their own horses.