Dancer of twilight
This is supposed to be Luthien the Fair. I’ve never seen a Luthien that I considered as beautiful as the most beautiful woman in the world.
Luthien
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Glorfindel’s Stand
Killing blow
Glorfindel strikes down the evil Balrog! I think this picture is really cool, although the hero is just standing there and the path is empty of the hundreds of frightened refugees that should be there. I like his cloak, for one thing, and the eagles are not bad. That round thing is the moon. Glorfindel’s helmet got knocked off because I wanted to see his beautiful hair.
Galadriel and Finrod
Brother and Sister of the Nolder
Galadriel and Finrod are the best looking of the Children of Finarfin, as well as the most famous and the most central. So la di da. Pretty hair.
Golden-haired Elf
Flowy!
I think this is Glorfindel, but I’m not sure. Wait ’til you see the coloured version. The end.
Oh yeah, and nice eyes. This guy, Glorfindel or not, is still pretty nice.
Tinfang Warble
Those dots are supposed to be stars which are supposed to be blue
Tinfang Warble is a spirit, a fae, as I think Tolkien was calling them at the time, who plays the flute and the stars come out early, bright, and blue when he does. I think he’s in the Book of Lost Tales Part I. I especially like the poem with the refrain “the tunes of Tinfang Warble!” Apparently his music is so addicting it’s almost a physical need to follow him and hear more. I gave him extra-long ears because of his fae-ishness, and two pipes because those things are cool, and sitting on an (iridescent) giant mushroom over a pool based on an image in the poem. I think parts turned out rather well, although from this one and the last one you can see I’m no good at backgrounds. Oh, yes, and I didn’t give him a beard even though his name means “sparkly beard”. I’ve been working on a colour version, but it’s not progressed for about a year now.
The Ford of Bruinen
Glorfindel reveals his power
Huzzah! Glorfindel saves the day! From Ringwraiths!
This is a scribble to celebrate the Ford of Bruinen. Frodo is on Asfaloth, obviously, and in the back there are (L-R) Aragorn, Glorfindel the Glowing – I mean, Golden – Merry, Sam, and Pippin. I think. I just drew random short people. In between, if you look carefully, are bits of all nine riders. Gandalf was going to be in the corner, but I cropped him because he was lousy.
Legolas profile
Mirkwood elf
Hmm. This picture is based on a picture I’d done the day before of Link, which I didn’t put up here because my scanner/printer decided to die a more violent death than usual and now won’t even print things. The picture I did of Link was a profile with his hat off and I experimented with face shading. It didn’t turn out, and the top of his head was flat, just like Legolas here, so maybe it’s a good thing that I couldn’t put it up. Anyhow, this picture is not too bad, except I only figured out how to draw the insides of ears a few months ago so his ear is still a blank hole. I noticed that Orlando Bloom has dark eyebrows, which means Legolas-in-the-movie has dark eyebrows, which is actually kinda cool. Not bad for a scribble.
Ecthelion
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.
“He launched his bark like a silver spark”
Silmaril on his brow
This is Eärendil, setting sail in his swan-prowed Vingelot, out from the dark cliffs with the Silmaril on his brow. This picture was based on a poem in the Book of Lost Tales Part II, in my edition on page 267: Eärendil arose where the shadow flows/At Ocean’s silent brim…
I like the older version of the last verse, though: Tracking the Sun in his galleon/And voyaging the skies/Till his splendour was shorn by the birth of Morn/And he died with the Dawn in his eyes.
It’s much more hopeful and glorious than the newer version, which has him withering in the darkness of the abyss.
Crowned with Stars
Calacirca and a bowman…
Last picture for Middle Earth for a while! First picture of the new year! Huzzah!
Huzzah has a lot of meanings for me, but more on that later.
This picture is of Legolas, stepping out onto the bank of Anduin to shoot the mysterious and sinister black shape in the air. The Big Dipper, or Calacirca, is over his head. Frodo sees “the dark head of the elf crowned with stars”… It was so beautiful I tried to do a picture of it, and it worked pretty well, but I never finished it. I may do a CG Photoshop version sometime. That would look really nice. Or maybe I’ll use my new markers!