The Steel and Silver of Gondolin

This is Ecthelion, the Captain of the Silver Fountains of Gondolin or something like that. Whatever his real title, Ecthelion represents all of the above, as well as unparallelled bravery and unflinching self-sacrifice. (cheers) This armour is perhaps toned down a little, since I wasn’t good at ‘character design’, but it has his signature jewelled spike on the top of it and his shield has its “thousands of ‘stars'”. I want to paint a really good Warhammer figure based on this. I cropped the shield and put it up beside him, as it was wasting space. I think he actually looks quite determined, even if his hands are too small and funny looking.

Ecthelion is one of the great heroes and characters of Middle Earth, although he is mainly remembered for killing Gothmog chief of Balrogs, he is the one who greeted Tuor and let him into Gondolin when Tuor showed up, and also is remembered fondly by Eärendil for playing on his silver flute.

I like the character type of ‘nice guy, friendly with kids, very kind’ who turns into ‘noble sword-wielding anxious-about-others hero’ when need arises. Probably also unconsciously poses a lot without realizing it. Yes, I said the same thing twice in two different ways.