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cobaltjellyfish · 1 year
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On the one hand, if I put the elves in togas it feels kind of like choosing the obvious choice.
On the other hand, the image of Feanor trying to run after Fingolfin with a sword while making sure the toga doesn't fall off is very funny
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cobaltjellyfish · 1 year
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🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨
I'm curious😌
Wild blue yonder- The Amazing devil
The moon will sing- The Crane Wives
Dandelion wine- Blackmore's night
Oak & Ash & Thorn- The longest Johns
Secret worlds- The Amazing Devil
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cobaltjellyfish · 1 year
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Bit of a redesign of Mairon/Sauron. full body and design notes below the cut
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Mairon's main influence was the mythological Argus because the main thing I didn't like about his first design was the lack of eyes. I wanted to give him the sort of vibe that if you got in a room with him you'd immediately be put on edge as if you were being watched. His tunic is slightly more greek than roman, especially by the shoulders and belt, and is generally a bit more practical-mostly because I couldn't really imagine Mairon in a toga because those things are so impractical if you want to do anything other than walk around very slowly. I also wanted to make him a bit shinier and I added some curls to his hair that make it look a bit more like fire. I imagine it would be made out of silk.
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cobaltjellyfish · 1 year
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Hi guys! Just wanted to say sorry for not posting a lot in the past year, things got a bit busy and I got really into discworld so the Tolkien stuff was mostly put on the backburner. I also have a few issues with some of my old art, so there's probably going to be a lot of redesigns in the new year bc I want to finally give at least the Finweons and angbang a bit more of a matching aesthetic rather than the weird pseudo-medieval thing I gave them a few years ago. It'll probably lean more Greek/Roman so I can pretend it's valid uni work lol. So yeah, sorry about the past year, and hopefully you'll see me more!
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cobaltjellyfish · 1 year
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Things that happen in Angband
Melkor forgets he needs to make his fana shorter and either bangs his head on every doorway or just smashes through them.
Gothmog has this problem too, but Gothmog has learned to preemptively blast doors/doorframes/walls/orcs
Mairon leaves shed fana around the fortress because it wasn't quite right for the work he wants to do so he just made another one. As a consequence at least twice a day some poor orc is left convinced that he's dead and the elves have snuck into the fortress
Thuringwethil attempts to snack on Melkor's Favourite Prisoner. This is not allowed, but she'll get there someday
Manwe sends letters. Or maybe sacrifices. The eagles are tasty
Maedhros learns new ways to curse. It's not like he can make anything worse by insulting Mairon's organizational system.
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cobaltjellyfish · 1 year
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Morwen for @outofangband. She was very fun to draw and I especially like their headcanons about her!
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cobaltjellyfish · 1 year
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The witch of the Golden Woods
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cobaltjellyfish · 2 years
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I know if Mairon was an animal it’s canonically a cat or a wolf, but he feels very stoat-ish
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cobaltjellyfish · 2 years
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silvergifting howls moving castle au where it turns out that all along annatar/Sauron was just some guy from wales LARPing around middle earth and everyone fell for it
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cobaltjellyfish · 2 years
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Human psychic: I sense a darkness in this house...
Elrond:...
Glorfindel (from the gardens): I KNEW YOUR DAD HAD BAD VIBES!
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cobaltjellyfish · 2 years
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the most common saying of Gil-Galad
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cobaltjellyfish · 2 years
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Thinking about names and kennings and song, and how having a being as powerful as a valar, never mind multiple, declare feanor/feanor's creation as marred, and how that declaration made him so through his own self-worth issues that existed mostly because of that declaration, compared to Grima naming Theoden as old and weak and how that made him so. How naming Melkor Morgoth removed any pretence of greatness, and how Sauron takes Mairon's shapeshifting and seductive power away from him.
idk i just think it's neat
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cobaltjellyfish · 2 years
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Mairon, Lieutenant of Melkor. Probably posing for his employee of the year photo.
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cobaltjellyfish · 2 years
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Gil-Galad turned Annatar away because as soon as he put Elrond in the room with him they both started hissing at each other like cats and Gil-Galad does not get paid enough to deal with that sort of maiar bullshit
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cobaltjellyfish · 2 years
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At one point someone (curumo) got Aiwendil absolutely smashed and then someone else (olorin) bet he probably couldn't shape this really cool animal/plant while the valar were distracted (by mairon and eonwe), and that's why middle earth animals can do weird things like Beorn's dogs walking on their hind legs all the time .
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cobaltjellyfish · 2 years
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the one trait Manwe and Melkor have in common is that they are massive gossips. the only time they get along is when they're telling each other the latest rumours they've heard. Manwe snuck into mandos to gossip with melkor during his imprisonment and Melkor regularly gives captive elves gossip to tell namo when he kills them so that he'll tell manwe. Manwe never thinks to use this to help the elves in the war against Melkor
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cobaltjellyfish · 2 years
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I like to think that Thranduil eventually gains a reputation of being The Best Elvenking East Of The Sea and that Legolas makes him a little badge with the title on. Galadriel seethes in rage every time she sees it.
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