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Wood Elves

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How to crash an elf party: a tutorial by Thorin Oakenshield

How to crash an elf party: a tutorial by Thorin Oakenshield

This is a picture of more of those Mirkwoodian elves, the tree elves, I suppose. I had trouble drawing in scale, so that’s why the ones in the back are bigger than the ones in front. At least the ones who are biggest are the most important.

Thranduil, King of Mirkwood, is the big guy on the left, and Legolas his son is on the right of him. There are random people all over, including a harpist, and a dark-haired, dark-eyed cutie hiding smiling behind a tree over on the far left. Esgalwen is the girl with dark shiny hair leaning against the log in front, chatting with someone… her sister? Oh, and that’s Thorin, hiding in plain view, so this is from The Hobbit. Who guessed before I said?

I shaded this one, because I figured it would be too hard to show that it was night time by the light of a ‘bonfire’ if it wasn’t. I shaded it, I remember, at all the parts of a Campbell River Friends of Music concert, I think it was, that it wasn’t impolite: before, intermission, and after. I was just finishing up, and that’s why I think I took it with me. I’m pleased with how it came out, although, even though I got Dad to spray it with protective stuff so it wouldn’t smudge, it still smudged. It’s smudged even worse now than this scan, since I did the scan at least two years ago. Blah. I can tell because you can’t see the harpist’s strings on the original, now, and there’s a lot of graphite on the back of the previous page, which is the beginning of a new sketchbook.

Esgalwen

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Black-haired elf-child

Black-haired elf-child

This is Esgalwen, a young elf-maiden living in Mirkwood, or as they call it, Taur-nu-Fuin: Forest under Shadow. I think they changed the name after Sauron got booted, though, back to its old name Greenwood the Great. She has black hair and brown eyes, and likes running and dancing through the forest: she’s one of the ‘childlike’ elves. I made her up. She also likes singing, and I imagine most of the songs on Enya’s Shepherd Moons CD as being sung by her… not the first one; that one will be described on the page for the 29th. One or two on the A Day Without Rain CD I also imagine being sung by her, such as Only Time, which she sings with her older sister, sitting in a glade with one playing a harp and one playing a cello.

The Peak of Thangorodrim

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A song always cheers everybody up

A song always cheers everybody up

This is Fingon, with the harp, playing to Maedhros, the one chained by the wrist. I drew this based on a particularly dramatic scene in the Silmarillion, and I even shaded parts of it! It looks pretty good! Maedhros’s portrait is a close-up; he’s not really in that space in the air. The dark smudge on the mountain behind Fingon is him. The only problem is that I drew it with Maedhros chained by the wrong wrist, so this is actually flipped from the way I drew it… but it’s the right way around now. I was going to shade the mountain Fingon’s leaning against too, but I decided it was too big a job and I didn’t know how to do it, so it would get ruined if I did it.

I like Fingon. I like Fingolfin a lot, but Fingon is rather like him. Maedhros is cool, too, especially when he makes all the orcs run away just by glaring at them. I should draw a picture of that. ^_^7

Glorfindel

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My hero! Huzzah!

My hero! Huzzah!

Glorfindel, my hero! I was really happy with this picture when I drew it, and I’m really happy with it still. I adore the passage where Tolkien describes him:

“Glorfindel was tall and straight; his hair was of shining gold; his face fair and young and fearless and full of joy; his eyes were bright and keen, and his voice like music; on his brow sat wisdom, and in his hand was strength.”

It’s so inspiring. Tolkien really liked Glorfindel, I think. I’m glad he didn’t show up in the movie, because he wouldn’t have been good. Actually, he was in the movie, but without speaking lines. He was some tall, white-haired guy with a milky, pasty face and he looked really wierd. I don’t look at that guy ever, since he’s all wrong. Legolas would have been perfect, but then he was perfect as Legolas, too, so I suppose Legolas is more important to the story so that’s okay. I just imagine the same person, tiny bit taller, a bit glowy with some sort of divine light, lachend eyes, and different clothes.

Legolas

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I wish he laughed and sang more (in the movie)

I wish he laughed and sang more (in the movie)

The first successful picture of Legolas I have ever drawn! I pronounce his name a bit differently… My first version had short black hair, but he was still pretty handsome. I especially remember the part where he sings the song of Nimrodel. He also laughs a lot more in the book, and is generally more cheerful. My favourite lines…
“Then are we not to meet the merry young hobbits?”
“You speak for me, Gimli, though I’d sooner learn how they came by the wine!”
“Come! The mists are blowing away, or would if you strange folk did not wreathe yourselves in smoke…”

Ahaha. He’s funny. Tolkien’s book is very funny, though maybe most people wouldn’t think so. I do. ^_^7
One thing I don’t have against the movie is that their version is a thousand times more elfish, elvish, and beautiful than my version. I wish they’d kept it at wielding only one knife, though. Whenever he uses just one I feel better.

Gimli

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A dwarf with a BLACK curly beard

A dwarf with a BLACK curly beard

Gimli was drawn on the same page as Boromir, but there’s a lot of space between them for even more people I never got around to doing.

I think this Gimli looks terrific. I’m very pleased with him. I based him on a very, very clear picture I have of him singing the wonderful song in Moria. Odd. The axe looks the same…

Gandalf and Galadriel (and Aragorn)

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Only one person here is a complete figure

Only one person here is a complete figure

These funny looking people are these: a faily good Gandalf, an erased Aragorn, Aragorn’s eyes, eyebrows, and nose, and Galadriel lacking a face. Gandalf was the first drawn, and drawn a bit further back than Aragorn, who was “drawn” lots further back than Galadriel, whom I never finished because she looked so good that if I added a face it would spoil it.

After muffing Aragorn, I put a note underneath saying (I had just watched Star Wars Ep. I, my first movie on bigscreen) “Like Qui-gon Jinn without beard”. I guess Viggo Mortensen is pretty good, but I didn’t really think he is really as good as the Aragorn in my head who won’t come out.

(Pippin) in Gondor

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Generic Gondor soldier

Generic preteen Gondor soldier

Next we have a hobbit with boots: I forgot they don’t wear them. It’s Pippin, in Gondor. But since I had boots on him I crossed that out and wrote Soldier of Gondor underneath. Nice helmet, neh? This is the last of the hobbits, since I don’t remember my original versions of the others.

Arwen

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Noble-maiden

Noble-maiden

This is Arwen, whom I still believe to be more lovely than Liv Tyler. I saw some wierd pictures of Arwen on Rolozo Tolkien.net, a website of official (or not) Tolkien fan-art, so I said: this can’t be right. None of those Arwens are remotely beautiful enough. Well, mine mightn’t be either, but I think it’s better.