Gandalf defiently smoked weed

The lotr, the silmarillion, the hobbit, ya know all that good shit

[asinoeiv]

hiii i’d like to request an ilmarë! i love her and eonwë :3

Her design would be something similar to this. Very glowing, very bright. I still have problems making the difference between Valar and Maiar big enough 🤔 I'd be curious how much I would have to scale up Varda's design to make it work compared to her handmaiden.

[riquenti]

there are exactly 0 living beings in Arda who are excited about this experience

[crypticcuntking]

Nerdanel for @tolkienwomensweek (a little late sorry)

Day 6: Heartbreak, The Second Stage Of Grief

[yaraef]

When Legolas finds Aragorn grieving over Boromir, it's mentioned he has a long knife but that he's all out of arrows. Afterwards, he follows Aragorn in lament, singing about grey seas, wailing gulls, stormy skies, white and dark shores... There's something about this moment that sticks with me when I think of the Prince of the Woodland Realm.

On a completely different note: I spent ages debating whether to give him dark hair or light hair... so... here's this dark-ish ash-blond hair that glows bright when it catches the light interpretation...??

[yaraef]

Gríma can worm anyone out of work on Mondays! (Yours truly just got her first snow day earlier this week, which prompted me to start work on this movie study slash plugging-in-my-take-on-the-characters-in-different-shots for fun.)

[yaraef]

I was painting some LOTR fanart of Éowyn and the Witch-King of Angmar for fun when my brain drifted off and my pen slipped... Yes, that's a little Mouth of Sauron being shushed by Sauron on the steps over there, and yes, the Witch-King is chilling with Théoden and Denethor now. Additional notes and the different versions of Gríma's hair that I was considering under the cut!

Note #1: Something called to me to title this A Court of Towers and Rings although I haven’t actually read ACOTAR (yet?!) nor know much beyond “romantasy,” “fae” and “Tamlin” (but I’m curious to learn more, I think!? My TBR is bit of a mess tbh!) so I apologize if this is sacrilegious in some way… (⸝⸝> ω <⸝⸝)

Note #2: I went through several iterations of Gríma’s hair. At first, I aimed for a shorter hairstyle (Version #1) but it felt too different from the movie version (although I’m going for a blend between that, the book descriptions and my own chaotic energy for these, hence black-haired Faramir with a flower ornament!) In the end, I picked the more ‘slick’ option (see above). It felt more oily and 'snake-like.’ However, I kind of like the curlier option too (Version #3)… Let’s say it’s how it ‘naturally’ looks before he works his magic...?

Note #3: The book Faramir is holding is a parody of “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck called “Of Knights and Businessmen” that I was going to use as the title of a future issue of Court Comicals… but idk if I’ll ever continue that comic of mine at this point so I thought it would be fitting to use here! (You can probably tell parodying book titles is kind of a thing around here!)

[yaraef]

Maybe this explains where I've been since I last posted online: I just finished dreaming of Mordor as a comfy abode despite all appearances. And yes, there is no pool of lava. It's just a hot spring down there.

Mount Doom is Sauron's secret sauna.

Heh.

[riquenti]

distortion

[katyamondfische]

some early sauron concepts from this summer before i finished with this one

baby mairon, maybe mordor-era sauron? post eregion? and third age sauron, looking like someone just dug him out of a ditch

i really wanted the second one to have a very snakey kind of vibe

might recycle these concepts and develop them further!!

[unavidas]

Baby Arwen and her mama :)

[holy-marmalade]

POV : You’re visiting Tirion’s palace with lady Celebrìan and there is a portrait of lady Galadriel as a very serious baby on the wall.

I thought about making her albinos like how I imagine her mother but ended up making her like her dad instead. Also the dress print is this cute ivy art nouveau border by Maurice Pillard Verneuil.

[blueboxfive]

[thatdorianguy]

the sound is a very important aspect of this

[atane-is-here]

@silvergiftingweek

Rings of Power

As soon as Sauron set the One Ring upon his finger they were aware of him; and they knew him, and perceived that he would be master of them, and of all that they wrought. Then in anger and fear they took off their rings.

[1rabong]

Sauron stop

[1rabong]

Dood

[1rabong]

Sauron and hair

[atane-is-here]

@silvergiftingweek

Silverhand