#telperion

[winter-wise]

The Silmarillion: The sun is guided by a beautiful powerful fire spirit lady! The Silmarillion: And the moon is guided by a guy who cannot keep to a basic schedule.

[ladyofthecatqueendom]

I'm slowly working my way through the Silmarillion after being thoroughly exposed to it second-hand.

It's been very good for getting me back into drawing practice. Also I wish I was half as good at writing as Tolkien.

Concepts for Telperion and Laurelin.

[thesilmarilliondrawn]

The last flower

"Manwë bade Yavanna and Nienna to put forth all their powers of growth and healing; and they put forth all their powers upon the Trees. But the tears of Nienna availed not to heal their mortal wounds; and for a long while Yavanna sang alone in the shadows. Yet even as hope failed and her song faltered, Telperion bore at last upon a leafless bough one great flower of silver, and Laurelin a single fruit of gold.

These Yavanna took; and then the Trees died, and their lifeless stems stand yet in Valinor, a memorial of vanished joy. But the flower and the fruit Yavanna gave to Aulë, and Manwë hallowed them, and Aulë and his people made vessels to hold them and preserve their radiance: as is said in the Narsilion, the Song of the Sun and Moon."

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, chapter 13, "Of The Sun and Moon and The Hiding of Valinor

Happy New Year, everyone

[vizual-demon]

Telperion & Laurelin: The Two Trees of Valinor

by Rene Gross

[madcat-world]

Years of Trees - breath-art

[plotsandsubplots]

Cloak update

I went off of the Silmaril design I saw on the Tolkien gateway, but I used cashmere in gold and silver so that it would seem to glow. I thought I could put a third one on the hood when I got to it? I need to do a banner at the bottom of the tree connecting the Silmarils, then at the top pick a design to cover the meaty part of the shoulder, then do a triangle to connect the top and bottom so it makes a semi-circle. So if anyone has any Noldor/Feanor forward designs for suggestion, love to hear them. It’s a Silmarillion cloak but we all know how big that book would be without the original problem child.

[ar3dhel]

Illumination

Hello wonderful Internet beings! This is my art submission for this year's Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang, which I can finally share. It's done in watercolour, and based on illuminated manuscript art. The amazing @arlenianchronicles wrote a beautiful story inspired by it, which you'll be able to read very soon✨

[velvet4510]

Tolkien’s subtle connections between LOTR and The Silmarillion are just glorious to discover. Like the reason Gollum hates sunlight and moonlight is the same reason the Nazgûl get scared off when Frodo calls out to Varda! Sauron - and thus his servants and his Ring that has completely corrupted Gollum’s soul - shares the absolute darkness of Melkor, who always hated and feared Varda because she is absolute light and thereby she created the Sun and Moon in defiance of that darkness… and she created them out of the last remaining light of the Two Trees which Melkor destroyed, so every time a piece of Melkor’s darkness comes into contact with the light of the Sun and Moon, it is reminded that Melkor did not destroy that light completely, that it lives on. Gollum can feel Varda’s creations forever clashing with what is indirectly Melkor’s creation.