#hopefully its clear when the person talking switches based on the speech bubble colors

[sesamenom]

the "what-to-do-about-the-ring" chapters, but from the perspective of elronds oath-related trauma

all text from Fellowship of the Ring (council of elrond + the ring goes south), except the snippets of the Oath, which i believe is from the Shibboleth of Feanor

inspired by this post

#silm #silmarillion #lotr #lord of the rings #fellowship #lotr fellowship #comics #elrond #glorfindel #gandalf #boromir #gimli #ill tag everyone with a speaking role i guess #the only thing here i own is the art #hopefully its clear when the person talking switches based on the speech bubble colors #hm im not super happy with some pages but i think the last two turned out really well #btw the greyscale panels are past/future/hypothetical while the color panels are present #so while i was figuring out how to trim a full chapter and then some into a six page comic i realized i cut out the entirety of aragorn #which i guess makes sense since hes obviously more aware of elrond's no oaths policy? #but kind of funny #also i cut saruman to focus on the four parallels theme #fun symbolic details: #i used that one shade of dark red to represent the Oath #in the first panel elrond and erestor (the feanorian kids (i hc erestor is caranthirs son)) are the only ones wearing red #but its also not either of their main colors bc they grew up w the oath but were never actually bound by it #the leaves are redder across the elwing half panel too #on the second page it shows up again in mae's hair and across the silmaril-related half panels #on the third page its in mae's lava; the bodies in menegroth; diors blood; and the figure stabbing him #but also in the belt of the hypothetical ringlord-elrond in a darker shade than it does in normal-elrond #and a ton in the last panel - all the feanorions are either wearing red or have red hair