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Keeping in line witch just doing quick sketches:

A Namo portrait ^^ tried to make him slightly more eldritchy in comparison to my radiant illustration from the ainur series XDDD

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Tolkien of Colour Week will run again in 2023 on the same dates, 1st to 7th August

More details will come later. Requests or suggestions, such as for prompts, are welcome! There will be an ao3 collection this year.

Please boost :)

Tagging people to spread word but no pressure to reblog ❤️ @arwenindomiel @someoneinthestars @tarninausta @arofili @antiracist-tolkien @tolkieneventsblog @tolkienfandomevents

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Hello everyone!

This year we are back with Tolkien Family Week, an event dedicated to showing appreciation for familiar relationships in Tolkien's work - be it The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion or beyond.

Below is a list of non-mandatory prompts to take some inspiration from:

Day One Parent-child relationship - From Lúthien and Dior to Samwise and Elanor, on this day we encourage you to explore the relationships between mothers and fathers and sons and daughters!

Day Two Siblings - Tolkien presents us with many pairs of siblings throughout all the ages of Arda. This day is devoted to relationships between brothers and sisters, such as Fili and Kili or Galadriel and Finrod.

Day three Extended Family - Cousins, uncles, nieces, grandparents. Family trees goes beyond the traditional household members. Finwë with his numerous grandchildren, Théoden with Éomer and Éowyn - this day is dedicated to them.

Day Four Cut Ties - Families can break apart. Disagreements, rivalries, separation, death - their presence is a never-leaving shadow in Arda. One only has to look at the likes of Fëanor and Fingolfin.

Day Five Found Family - Families can break apart, yes, but at other times, they can also be in found in unlikely places. From kidnap fam to adopted distant cousins, this day is for exploring them.

Day Six Ancestors and their Legacy - Every family has its roots somewhere. On this day we look back to where the great families in Tolkien's works came from and what those ancestors left behind for their descendants.

Day Seven Freeform - Did we forget about something or is there a prompt you want to revisit? Feel free to use this day for any family related content!

The week will run during the last seven days of November 2023 - 20th to 26th - and will be hosted by @tilions and @armenelols. We will operate in a mixture of queued posts and direct reblogs.

Some minor clarifications:

Please tag @tolkienfamilyweek and put #tolkienfamilyweek in the first five tags of your post so that we can find it

Feel free to send us an ask should your post not be reblogged

OCs are welcome

All kind of content is appreciated - edits, art, writing, headcanons, analysis, let your imagination run wild

The ask box is open for any remaining questions!

We are looking forward to your creations!

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after thangorodrim

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I wanted to draw Aredhel in full armor, then realized armors are not very practical if you are an archer and ended up going for a lazy mix. She wears archery gloves and arm guards in both hands since I read once that elves are ambidextrous and I don't know if that was canon or headcanon, but it's canon to me now. Also, the feathers on the arrows are from barn owls, which I somehow asociate with her.

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Varda

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Do not follow her, Turvo. Don’t go there, you mustn’t go! You cannot leave Itarillë – you cannot leave me! Don’t leave me!

Fingon and Turgon on the Helcaraxë! Since I still had these two on the brain, I decided to indulge in some more brotherly feels (or angst, in this case). This scene is sometime after Elenwë is lost; I imagine Turgon was so taken by despair in the days after that he nearly followed his wife, but Fingon stopped him in time. So Turgon had to release his grief some other way!

For Turgon’s face, I referenced War Pieta by Max Ginsburg since I really wanted his expression to be visceral. For some reason, drawing these types of expressions is lots of fun! XDD

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some rough scribbles... from a train ride today. Kaladin and Leshwi doing their dance in the sky.

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7/25: Ancalimë holding a lamb, alone and content

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The statue of Thingol watching the worst of the deeds of the Noldor

Oh my poor babies 😭 I hope somebody saves them.

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"With his last failing senses Frodo heard cries, and it seemed to him that he saw, beyond the Riders that hesitated on the shore, a shining figure of white light; and behind it small shadowy forms waving flames, that flared red in the grey mist that was falling over the world." - a scene I've always wanted to paint, done as a private commission for Chris Stanford's Patreon.

Prints available on INPRNT:

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Cirdan for @cycas

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"The Fall of Gondolin" art by @hirazuki, eloquently comparing the moments the both Ecthelion of the Fountain and Glorfindel of the House of the Golden Flower encountered, killed, and fell to, their respective balrogs.

This article by @miriensilowende compares the destruction of Gondolin to similar sacks in history and classical literature.

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"The Fall of Gondolin" art by @hirazuki, eloquently comparing the moments the both Ecthelion of the Fountain and Glorfindel of the House of the Golden Flower encountered, killed, and fell to, their respective balrogs.

This article by @miriensilowende compares the destruction of Gondolin to similar sacks in history and classical literature.

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Nerdanel Q_Q