heLLO NONNIE you are ABSOLUTELY spot on about that!!! honestly, I think that Nerdanel's the only one with the godgiven power to be able to put Feanor in his place using the power of Embarassment™ LMAO, cuz if you have a guy like Feanor, i bet the two pieces of lint in my coat pocket that he's done many a dumb thing in his youth...
bonus: diverging away from embarassing Feanor stories, but featuring useless brothers 'aiding' Curvo's plight...
thank you for your kind words eeee!!! it makes me so happy to know you enjoy my comics hehe 😳😳 ill keep working hard to keep em coming! <3 <3
Hey so here's a question. I love the interactions between Anairë and Eärwen, but I was wondering do you think Nerdanel was their friend?
hhihi!! thank you for the question! i'm sorry it's taken me SO long to finally get back to this, but i'm slowly making my way through asks and yours is a prompt ive loved since i first saw it, so i had a lot of fun with this 😚
certainly, i do think that nerdanel would have been friends with anaire and earwen! although, at first glance you would not think she's close with them at all, given her gruffness... but i really like the thought of the three wives being close friends bc in a family as problematic as Finwe's, i adore there being solidarity between the ladies who married into it 😂 here is a little relationship chart of my hcs to explain better!
obligatory sketch page WOO
now AFTER the exile and the first kinslaying, i have a whole array of hcs about how their relationships may evolve that didnt make it into my sketches... but to condense: nerdanel is a pillar of strength for anaire who is distraught especially by nolo and irisse leaving her. she, however, dares not to face earwen for the shame and guilt that feanor's (her husband!!!) actions against earwen's own people have brought about. earwen leaves them both (temporarily) to return to aqualonde and mourn, and from there... well i havent thought about it, but tl;dr i dont think it'd end sourly for them three, really!
a small gift for my lovely friend @playing-with-inks !! i know how much you love little Fingon and Maedhros, so here's a scene of conductor finno ft. his star musician maitimo, a coat stolen borrowed from him, doting fathers and an orchestra of stuffies belonging to assorted cousins
when I showed it to her in DMs, she pointed out that I usually draw Mae with a braid only after the Nirnaeth Arnododoedid (based on one of my headcanons) and then asked if this is a flashback from his POV, or a dream/hallucination of their happier childhood. after reading that i couldnt help myself so here is a bonus based on her astute observations 👀
Hi! I absolutely adore all your art, it’s always so sweet or absolutely tears my heart out (in a good way) and your style’s so lovely! I was wondering, do you have a design for Findis or Lalwen?
nonnies!!! apologies for the delay, but thank you so so much for your sweet words and request 🥰 it tears MY heart out whenever u guys take time to send in such kind feedback so like... THANK YOU WAAA 🥺😭 i always appreciate the requests too, cuz if i didnt get prompts from u guys 3/4 of my posts would be maedhros lmao
as such, here are my designs for findis and lalwen!
and as per tradition, sketch pageeee 💃
thoughts n ramblings under the cut (plus expanded credit to @dialux for her influence + a little update at the very end)
- now this was a bit hard to answer at first cuz i had like ZERO ideas on how to do findis and lalwen lmao (they were done so dirty by being cut out of the silm waUGh)
- but over the months i had a better idea of Findis, mostly thanks to @dialux 's AMAZING findis character study on ao3 !!! definitely read it if you havent already bc her findis is just,,, SO well written hhHHhh 💓 ngl she's practically my canon findis by now!
- so!! the parts abt feanor and findis' relationship, and findis' singing, and short-haired findis are all inspired and pulled from her fic (and she tackles it way WAY better than i could ever so AGAIN i would highly recommend reading it 🥰)
- admittedly from there i did end up diverging a little down my own path of hcs (e.g the songstress bit) so Dia i hope u dont mind !! 🙏
- i kind of played by ear with Lalwen, and so she just came to me as I was sketching... there were some other hcs i have of her that i physically cannot draw (such as her being a skilled equestrian) but tl;dr all u gotta know is that under her skirt she's wearing breeches and tall riding boots
- i wanted to give her a messier fringe, but in the end she's become my 13795th elf who has a middle parting :'D (is this a curse of morgoth's? somewhere out there the discord peeps are sighing in disapproval BAHAHA)
- all in all im ENAMOURED with exploring the finwean aunties' relationships with their nephews and nieces! perhaps one day...
update update: im back home but some things are going down IRL that have me a little 😬 so I might be inactive for a few more days! To those who've left comments or messaged me privately, I'm really really sorry I haven't gotten back yet but I promise I'll respond as soon as I'm able!! 😙💓
Freeze! ✧ ─=≡Σ((( つ•̀ω•́)つ You’re under arrest for being so lovely. Copy this message to 10 other blogs that you think are beautiful and deserve it. Keep the game going and make others feel beautiful!
You're such a creative person & all of your art is amazing❤️
eeeeee!! nonnie, you are so sweet waaaaaughhh 😭😭 im so flattered you took time to send such a kind message 💓 thanks so much! plus, that kaomoji is just TOO cute, so lemme send one back ⊂(´・ω・｀⊂)
i spent too long cracking my head open on how to do a worthy response, so from now on finrod will be the stand-in for all u wholesome anons 😂 here is a small scenario in which he brings out his inner... idk sparkling anime protagonist vibe (ft. a very unamused turgon)
