#salgant

[sakasakiii]

ive had vague concepts for the lords for gondolin floating around my noggin since late 2021, but never really sat down to get em drawn... so during my hiatus i figured i should stop sitting on it after 2917382 years 😴 tho mostly i just wanted to do another relationship chart bc the first three i made in june were! so!! fun!!!

let me know if the text is too hard to read... hopefully it wont be on desktop but ill see what i can do if need be 👍

i had a lot of fun with these batch of concepts so below is an extra comic and a sketch page:

extra 2: just some bonus rough sketches of the lords' possible dynamics w/ others prior to the darkening?? i write fanfiction in my head 25 hours a day bc i forgot how to do so with actual stories HAHAHA

#silmarillion #maeglin #turgon #glorfindel #gondolin #ive tried to follow as much of the info on tolkien gateway as possible. but i didnt wanna design armour JUST yet HAHAH #i hope you wont mind the creative liberties hehe.... i also changed rogs design a lil.... his old hairstyle was bugging me #in terms of ages only penlod and egalmoth are older than turgon :DDD ecthelion is the youngest barring maeglin and idril! #and ofc it isnt a sketch dump if i dont find some obscure way to sneak maedhros into it 😗😗 #idril #penlod #rog #egalmoth #galdor #ecthelion #duilin #salgant #curufin #aredhel #galadriel #argon #fingolfin #lords of gondolin #maedhros #noldor #silm #the silmarillion #the silmarillion fanart #silm art #elves

[windrelyn]

Gondolindrim <3

Please do not re-up my art without permission!

The commissions are still open! DM me of visit my Ko-fi for more information!

#tolkien #silmarillion #gondolin #turgon #tuor #idril #earendil #galdor #ecthelion #glorfindel #rog #penlod #pengolodh #elemmakil #salgant #maeglin #egalmoth #duilin #voronwe #my art #middle earth #elves #fanart #the silmarillion #the fall of gondolin #gondolindrim

[sesamenom]

artblock/family obligations have been hitting hard this week but here's a classic group photo for the Lords of Gondolin!

house of finwe house of thingol

closeups under the cut:

#silm #silmarillion #gondolin #lords of gondolin #(from left to right: #duilin #penlod #tuor #turgon #ecthelion #glorfindel #egalmoth #rog #maeglin #galdor #salgant #next up: and finrod fell before the throne #glorfindel ecthelion duilin and salgant are the younger lords (not counting tuor & maeglin) of the lords #glorfindel is elenwes nephew #so he was an older teen on the helcaraxe (roughly galadriels age) #ecthelion was one of argons friends and duilin was one of aredhels junior Hunt friends #salgant was the younger brother/cousin/something of one of fingons friends #egalmoth and rog are the oldest #rog (the oldest of all the lords) was one of mahtans younger colleagues (born during the later part of the great journey) #egalmoth was one of turgon's tutors/mentors #hes also half sindarin (born on the end of the great journey) #penlod is about turgons age #they met because they were the Tall Kids and promptly became friends #galdor is the only one of the lords who didnt meet turgon in valinor #hes a sinda who helped rog escape from angband and is exactly turgons age

[l7inda]

Lords of Gondolin

From top to bottom:

Glorfindel, Turgon, Ecthelion, Galdor, Egalmoth, Tuor (the only mortal), Penlod, Legolas of the House of the Tree (not a lord but I like him), Maeglin, Duilin, Rog, Salgant

#silmarillion #lord of the rings #drawing #gondolin #the fall of gondolin #glorfindel #ecthelion #turgon #egalmoth #tuor #galdor #penlod #maeglin #legolas #duilin #Rog #salgant #procreate #tolkien

[fistfuloflightning]

”You said the Vala in black is a mourner?” Maeglin looked up from reading through a handful of Salgant’s harp scores. A conversation from when the Lord of the Harp had first befriended a grieving , freshly orphaned young elf. When Maeglin had first learned more of the Valar than the brief words Aredhel could spare in Eol’s absence.

“Nienna is the Weeper, yes. She comforts those who have died. It is why she was invoked at the funeral.” There were lots of things Maeglin did not know about Noldorin customs, much of which Aredhel had simply neglected to teach him. But Salgant did not ridicule him for his ignorance, instead treating his never ending questions with patience. Even now he stopped his hands to give Maeglin’s question his full attention. “Though she is not the one to call the fëa once it has left the hroa. It is the Doomsman of the Valar who does that. Though there are those who simply refuse the call.” Salgant dropped his attention to the lathe before him, the mask he was shaping. The scent of cut cedar warmed the air. “Those who might not heed the call to Mandos, those who wish to remain Houseless—to say nothing of those who wish not to leave this land for one they’ve never seen.”

A surge of fear had Maeglin’s fingers almost tearing apart the parchment in his hands. He watched the older elf with wide eyes. Might not heed… “Will…will I be able to see Emel after she is reborn?”

But Salgant merely nodded as if there were no question as to Aredhel’s decisions. “I am sure of it. Should you die here—and I pray upon the grace of the Valar that you do not—you would also be called to the Halls of Mandos, where all the dead receive comfort and healing.”

Something tightened in Maeglin’s chest and he once more felt the prickle of tears in his eyes. He whipped his head away, ostensibly to examine the nearby masks Salgant had nearly finished for an upcoming festival, all tassels and gold and richly layered paints. “Is it…peaceful? In the Halls?”

Salgant gently set down the wooden mask he’d been shaping. He looked out the window at the plaza below, but Maeglin felt as if he was looking with those kind eyes at him. “I would imagine it is so. A place where you can lay your burden down. Where all pain and hurt is soothed away. At least, I would hope so.”

Maeglin remembered belatedly that Salgant’s brother died upon the Ice. Perhaps Salgant missed him just as much as Maeglin missed his mother. He dropped his watering gaze to the music scores in his lap.

A hand rested on the top of his head, patting softly. For a heartbreaking moment he could pretend it was Aredhel’s hand stroking his hair, as was her wont. But she was gone. And he wouldn’t see her unless the Ban was lifted and they could sail across to a world he’d never even dreamed of. She was so far away and Maeglin felt every inch of that distance.

So when Salgant pulled him into a hug, he went gratefully.

Snippet from an unpublished fic where Salgant adopts Maeglin

#I love me some found family #maeglin finally finds a father figure worth a damn and salgant just adds one more kid to his large family (by elven standards) #the silmarillion #maeglin #salgant #lords of gondolin #unapologetic maeglin apologist #found family #silm headcanons #tolkien art #my art #my writing

[overlord-of-fantasy]

Love in Arda

For Valentines day I have multiple cute shipping quotes for you!

Finwe, rushing into the council room: Greetings, sorry I’m late. I was doing a couple of things and got distracted. Miriel, casually walking in after him: I’m “a couple of things”. Indis, following her, grinning: I’m “got distracted”.

Nerdanel, nervously: Okay, but what if we went to dinner not as friends this time? Feanor, hesitently pulling out his sword: AS ENEMIES?! Nerdanel: ...

Melkor: We’re getting married, bitches! Mairon: And we're about to make it everybody else's problem.

Rog: I don't need to go to bed. I'm not tired, I'll be fine. Salgant: But, darling, I'll be so lonely without you. Come curl up in my arms so I can feel whole again. Rog: O-oh. Well. Are you trying to seduce me into healthy sleeping patterns?? Salgant: Is it working?

Melkor: Hey, what’s up? Manwe, lying in the grass, watching birds: The sky. The eagles. Melkor, rolling his eyes: No, I meant like, what are you doing? Manwe, innocently: Oh, Varda. Varda, over Melkors crying: *highfives Manwe* Nice!

#lotr #silmarillion #silmarillion memes #incorrect silmarillion quotes #silmarillion ships #melkor #morgoth #manwe #varda #mawe x varda #hammer of harp #rog #salgant #rog x salgant #mairon #sauron #angbang #feanor #nerdanel #feanor x nerdanel #finwe x miriel x indis #finwe #miriel therinde #indis #indis x finwe x miriel #miriel x indis x finwe #valentines day

[ela-draws]

Gondolin

#i spend sooooo much time on this omg #this is a redraw btw #turgon #maeglin #idril #aredhel #idril celebrindal #glorfindel #the silmarillion #silmarillion #tolkien fanart #the silm #ecthelion #rog #salgant #earendil #tuor #egalmoth #gondolin #penlod #penlodh #lords of gondolin #silm #lotr #lotr fanart #art #my art #watercolor

[shootingstarsue]

#the silmarillion #tolkien #elves #gondolin knights #turgon #tuor #maeglin #salgant #eglamonth #penlod #galdor #glorfindel #ecthelion #rog #my art

[southaway]

Hi! I love your art, especially your clothing designs, and was wondering if you could draw Salgant for the art request?

Thank you! And thanks for the request, I have have to admit, I had to go back to the books for this one. I hope you don't mind me throwing Eärendil in there as well.

Here's Salgant and the Dragonslayer

This one took a while, I tried doing a background, which I almost never do. And then work took a lot of my energy. But, good news (?) I got covid, so I got time to finish.

Next up is Shadowheart, then some Dragon Age and more Tolkien

#salgant #earendil #fall of gondolin #tolkien #middle earth #southaway requests #digital art #what's forshadowing

[ofmiceandwomen]

Our wonderful discord server came up with this Tag yourself game

#silmarillion #tolkien #gondolin #the silm fandom #tag game #lords of gondolin #houses of gondolin #house of the fountain #house of the golden flower #house of the wing #glorfindel #noldor #the fall of gondolin #ecthelion #tfog #turgon #jrrtolkien #salgant #duilin #egalmoth #silmarillion discord server

[windrelyn]

@gondolinweek 2023 - Day 3: Songs of Sunrise

Ecthelion, Salgant

#ecthelion #salgant #gondolinweek2023 #gondolinweek #silmarillion #tolkien #Elves #middle earth #gondolin #tfog #My art #fanart

[thelordofgifs]

Obscure Tolkien Blorbo: Round 1

Ingwë vs Salgant

Ingwë:

The High King of the Elves and King of the Vanyar.

ingwë propoganda. he's SO shiny. tumblr likes shiny men. vote for ingwë

Salgant:

A lord of Gondolin in an early draft of the legendarium. A coward who fawned over Maeglin.

Maeglin's best friend! Plays the harp! One of the few canonical fat elves!

Round 1 masterpost

#obscure tolkien blorbo #ingwe #salgant #queue

[arofili]

@gondolinweek day three | house of the harp

[The House of the Harp] were dight with tassels of silver and tassels of gold, and a harp of silver shone in their blazonry upon a field of black; but Salgant bore one of gold, and he alone rode into battle of all the sons of the Gondothlim, and he was heavy and squat.

#gondolinweek #gondolinweek2023 #tolkienedit #oneringnet #salgant #talagand #gondolin #tfog #silm #silmarillion #my edit #tefain nin #'talagand' is the noldorin version of his name; i like it a lot better so that's what i call him #also smh it's sooo hard to find chubby models in hanfu??? the only ones i could find were of women :/ #this is the best i managed to find

[fistfuloflightning]

An argument in progress—Salgant and Rog

#the silmarillion #salgant #rog #lords of gondolin #i always headcanoned rog was of mahtan’s kin #either brother/son/nephew #why I seem to design him like a sleep-deprived maedhros #but that’s actually black paint to reduce glare in the forges (like football paint) #…and also sleep deprivation #arts vs the sciences #my art #tolkien art

[overlord-of-fantasy]

Who broke it?

*Everyone is standing around the broken forge tool*

Rog: So. Who broke it? I'm not mad, I just wanna know.

Everyone:

Salgant: ...I did. I broke it.

Rog: No. No you didn't. Maeglin?

Maeglin: Don't look at me. Look at Tuor.

Tuor: What?! I didn't break it.

Maeglin: Huh, that's weird. How'd you even know it was broken?

Tuor: Because it's sitting right in front of us and it's broken.

Meaglin: Suspicious.

Tuor: No, it's not!

Ecthelion: If it matters, probably not, but Glorfindel was the last one to use it.

Glorfindel: Liar! I don't even know how to use that crap!

Ecthelion: Oh really? Then what were you doing by the forge earlier?

Glorfindel: I use the small pincers to pluck my eyebrows. Everyone knows that, Ecthelion!

Salgant: Okay let's not fight. I broke it. Let me pay for it, Rog.

Rog: No! Who broke it!?

Everyone:

Penlod: Rog... Egalmoth has been awfully quiet.

Duilin, in protective boyfriend mode: rEALLY?!

*Everyone starts arguing*

Rog, being interviewed: I broke it. I burned my hand so I punched it.

Rog: I predict 10 minutes from now they'll be at each other's throats with warpaint on their faces and a orc head on a stick.

Rog:

Rog: Good. It was getting a little chummy around here.

#silmarillion memes #lotr #silmarillion #incorrect silmarillion quotes #lords of gondolin #gondolin #rog #salgant #ecthelion #glorfindel #duilin #egalmoth #maeglin #tuor #duilin x egalmoth

[novemberthecatadmirer]

Although I do not go with it but the “Maeglin never got released back to Gondolin Sauron was impersonating him all the time” headcanon is actually pretty appealing

I WANT TO SEE ONE FROM SAURON’S POV it’s going to be so much fun

Consider it he could be offered this mission by Morgoth to make up for his utter failure at Luthien event (Got humiliated by one princess of twilight going to humiliate another prince of twilight. Morgoth had sense of humor.)

Numenor: Sauron became the king’s favorite and ruined the already problematic nation from within. Gondolin: Sauron became the king’s favorite and ruined the already problematic city from within. (Gondolin absolutely already had SO many issues going on.)

Sauron getting to see Gondolin forge and learn their secrets!!! It being such a good experience that he did it again to Eregion in Second Age.

Sauron, partying HARD in Gondolin. Eating nice food and drinking and dancing and being his charming self. At the same time plotting the various tragic deaths of everyone around.

Maeglin did not reveal Gondolin’s defense secrets Sauron gathered those secrets while impersonating him

Regular dream zoom-sessions with Morgoth to report information

Sauron being creepy to Idril and Earendil. Idril thought Maeglin finally throw off his cover. Earendil being a child realized something was extremely off it’s almost like his uncle came back WRONG. But he could not understand what was happening and did now have enough vocabulary to clearly convey what he felt.

Would Sauron like Idril in some way? I think the answer is “YES”

I headcanon Idril to be such a plotting cunning politician determined to make sure her people survive the Doom. It was a HUGE ambition. She heard the Doom at a young age then almost immediately had her mother dead and lost in cold water. She’s traumatized paranoid filled with anxiety always thinking and preparing for the worst. I also cannot believe she did not have bitter feelings about Turgon’s dumb grief-driven decisions, and share the anger against Feanorians. But she masked her feelings even better than Maeglin and people viewed her as the sun and hope of Gondolin. Except she was on the edge of losing it and yelling at her father and starting a coup so that she could start evacuation of the city.

Would Sauron find that mass of repressed anger & pain interesting? And the daring ambition to escape the Doom laughable? He would want to extinguish that fire and squish that hope. He would want to break the princess just like he broke the prince.

And yes, killing Earendil in front of Idril then dragging her away to be his toy would be NICE

Of course Sauron would be offed by the mortal man he was ignoring and looked down upon all the time. He’s Sauron he never learned that particular lesson

Ah and capturing Salgant to make him Morgoth’s little musician. For fun and as a punishment for Maeglin refusing telling the secrets of the city. “See, the city fell anyway, they believe you to be the traitor, your uncle is dead, your cousin and nephew hate you now, and I have your best friend as gift for my lord.”

Maeglin could laugh at Sauron for being offed by a mortal man but it hardly matter everything was still awful for him no one knew he was being kept in Angband all the time and being forced to work in their forge

(You know this actually makes more sense for the fire mechanical dragons. You cannot convince me Maeglin could make anything like that within short period of time)

(Morgoth could just, show him Sauron in Gondolin and said “well if you still do not cooperate maybe I am going to have my lieutenant doing something to you pretty cousin or your cute nephew or your arrogant uncle or your little fat friend.”)

(He still managed to design some fatal flaws into the metal dragons. And after learning Earendil & Idril escaped he refused to cooperate anymore. That’s why the dragons were not used in War of Wrath; they overheat and exploded.)

#tolkien #silmarillion #the silmarillion #silm #silmarillion headcanon #silm headcanon #sauron #mairon #maeglin #idril #salgant #fall of gondolin #gondolin #morgoth