#timpinen

[laisrinel]

For Tinfang's day !

Following the idea of this post.

Yes I love this character !

[laisrinel]

For Tinfang's day !

Idea coming from this post

I haven't a lot of time this year to make something better, so just a sketch. Better than nothing !

[laisrinel]

For Tinfang Warble's day !

Following this post, I found the idea to do something for Leprechaun's day in the theme of Tinfang really appealing.

So I tried some illumination (my other published illumination was in fact done after this one but shhht) I love this character ! He really deserves more exposure. He's mentionned in the silmarillion but in fact only appears in Book of Lost tales.

Can we really talk about "appearing" when no character see him ?

I used this poem because this form was the easiest for me to incorporate in my first illumination tentative : not too much verses AND short verses.

[tolkienianos]

 'Now does he play about the gardens of the land; but Alalminórë he loves the best, and this garden best of all. Ever and again we miss his piping for long months, and we say "Tinfang Warble has gone heart-breaking in the Great Lands, and many a one in those far regions will hear his piping in the dusk outside tonight." But on a sudden will his flute be heard again again at an hour of gentle gloaming, or will he play beneath a goodly moon and the stars go bright and blue.'

"The Chaining of Melko" - The Book of Lost Tales (part. 1) - HoME - J.R.R. Tolkien