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feydrawings · 2 years

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@tolkienofcolourweek day 1, prompt: Family, Connection to Land

Maeglin would be seen standing on the right of the throne, and Idril the King’s daughter seated the left. -- JRR Tolkien, Unfinished Tales, Of Tuor and his coming to Gondolin.

The House of the King in Gondolin, from left to right: Idril Celebrindal, King Turgon the Wise, Maeglin Lomion.

For the style of the clothes and jewels I took inspiration from the historical reconstructions of the Khmer Empire, an enormous empire that lasted from 802 AC to 1431 and that included nowadays Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. Idril’s headpiece was inspired by the Apsara dance attires, since she’s called ‘Celebrindal’ (’silver-foot’) i imagined her having a connection with dancing. The materials used for this piece are: watercolor, acrylics and sepia ink on paper.

Please don’t repost without permission nor remove the trademark <3

#tocweek2022 #tolkienofcolourweek #tolkien of colour #silmarillion #tolkien #jrr tolkien #gondolin #idril celebrindal #maeglin #idril #turgon #lomion #turgon the wise #gondolindrim #my art #*mine #watercolor #mepoc #unfinished tales

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turndecassette2 · 3 months

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#watercolour #art #tolkien #elf #feanor #or it was meant to be feanor but I was too lazy to google what hair colour he was supposed to have & I know some ppl care deeply about #those sorts of things #I need to re-read this book #just remember it being good tragedy #& the author cares about trees in a way I find strangely moving & sweet

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chechula · 2 months

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I spend a day drawing&drinking tea with @yonetee and then six hours on the train. I had a lot of time doodling weird over-rendered textures. So this image... happens to be.

For me, the most heartbreaking scene of Silmarillion: Maedhros and Maglor in the camp of Valar x_x

#tolkien #silmarillion #maedhros #maglor #eonwe #I haven't seen any drawing of this scene..#so I made over the top composition #of course #and then I was too lazy to do proper colours #so i did Incal colours #maedhrosmaglorweek

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myceliumelium · 3 months

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From the combined braincell of @animeandbooksarelife and I, bc she is incredibly good at words and very good at cohesive narrative, while I sure do know how to draw. It took me so long though, you can see my art skills substantially develop and also my artstyle change. It's actually really neat if you ask me.

#colour theory #who's she?#art #silmarillion #tolkien #aredhel #eol #Maeglin #my obsession with aredhel's 100% canonical divorce continues #by divorce I do mean divorcing Eol's head from his body with an axe

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ahobbitstale · 10 months

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Eowyn in Return of the King (2003) ↳ for @bae-owyn <3

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naarisz · 3 months

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The secrets of Ringcraft

#silmarillion #silm #silm art #tolkien #the silmarillion #mairon #sauron #annatar #celebrimbor #telperinquar #i don't really like this drawing but whatever #wtf is with tumblr's posting system nowadays it sucks the colours out of my drawings aaaa

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cyraes · 4 months

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for a @lotr-sesa prompt, for @sallysavestheday , I decided to do a simple study on the seven clans of Elves. you can find the ao3 version here + some headcanons.

I had a lot of fun with these <3

#the silmarillion art #the silmarillion #tolkien art #tolkien fanart #the silm art #lotr fanart #lotr art #tolkien of colours #poc elves #art

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keltii-tea · 11 months

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Annatar and Celebrimbor from a few months back. They've been my secret obsession for the past while 💍🔨

#celebrimbor #annatar #silvergifting #the silmarillion #tolkien #telperinquar #sauron #keltii art #I am not totally happy with this one - but i've been working on colours and i do like that part!

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juiceagainandagainandagain · 2 days

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dior and nauglamír

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ardafanonarch · 3 months

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Where does Beleg’s light-coloured hair come from? Is it just fanon? Thank you!

Hair Colour of Beleg (and the Sindar)

To the enduring enrichment of fandom discourse, descriptions of physical appearance are (famously) very few and far between in Tolkien's writings.

Beleg, though, is an interesting case because we actually have a painting of him by Tolkien! If you haven't yet seen the 'Red Boots Beleg', your day is about to get better:

This is a close-up of a larger painting, dating to July 1928 and originally entitled 'Beleg finds Flinding in Taur-na-Fúin' (Flindling was the name of Gwindor's character in the Lay of the Children of Húrin). Tolkien later titled it 'Fangorn Forest' and used it as an illustration for LotR. But it was originally meant to be Beleg and Gwindor.

Here's the full painting, where you can see the title 'Fangorn Forest' has been added:

As this painting is the only canonical reference we have for Beleg's hair colour, Beleg is canonically dark-haired.

(A small consolation for fans of light-haired Beleg: Being from 1928, the painting is quite early in the development of the legendarium, and Tolkien was known to change his mind on things, including what this painting depicted.)

However, the fandom's fondness for light-haired Beleg did not arise out of nowhere. Beleg is one of the Sindar, who are a subset of the Teleri, and several major Teler characters in the legendarium are described as silver-haired: Thingol, Olwë, Eärwen, Círdan, and Celeborn. So it makes perfect sense that readers would think silver hair was common among the Teleri.

(There's also the influence, of course, of the Peter Jackson films which are full of light-haired elves, including Sindarin Legolas.)

Here's from the essay 'Quendi and Eldar' in History of Middle-earth Vol. 11: The War of the Jewels:

Elwe himself had indeed long and beautiful hair of silver hue, but this does not seem to have been a common feature of the Sindar, though it was found among them occasionally, especially in the nearer or remoter kin of Elwe (as in the case of Círdan). In general the Sindar appear to have very closely resembled the Exiles, being dark-haired, strong and tall, but lithe.

No kinship between Beleg and Thingol is ever mentioned, for the record. But again, for silver-hair fans, this passage doesn't exclude the possibility that someone unrelated to Thingol could have silver hair. It just wasn't common.

References

This fantastic compilation of the evidence on elven hair colours has all the sources.

Information on the 'Fangorn' painting is from the Tolkien Estate's website.

#beleg #hair colour #hair color #sindar #teleri #tolkien's art #history of middle-earth #anon

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phil-the-stone-art · 27 days

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furthering my aishwarya arwen agenda inspired by @maedictus’ gorgeous gorgeous works

#hrithik aragorn obviously. no one else could do it #there is another one but the colour pallet fucked up badly & I cant bear for it to be Seen #arwen undomiel #lord of the rings #aishwarya rai #lotr #tolkien #specifically if its not liv and viggo it has to be them #who else has the energy

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brighter-arda · 11 months

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Galadriel in aroace colours for Day 1 @aspecardaweek 🧡💛🤍💙🔵

Part 15 of toi's indigenous tolkien series

[Image description: edit in yellow/blue/white/orange

1: Nontobeko Mbuyazi sitting with one arm on her knee. She is a albino Zulu woman. Photo is orange, background is blue, text = Galadriel, Lady of Light

2: art (The Trees of Valinor by Aronja-Art, link to original)

3: white messy fabric

4: Nontobeko Mbuyazi in front of window. Photo has blueish greenish tones and background is yellow. Same text as before

5: Nontobeko Mbuyazi in front of a pale sky. Picture is white and background is yellow. Same text as before

6: a glass beach (beach covered in many-coloured sea glass worn down to pebbles)

7: a blue forest

8: Nontobeko Mbuyazi with orange eye make-up. Photo is orange and background is white.]

#galadriel #silmarillion #lotr #the third age #tolkien women of colour #black tolkien #southern african tolkien #disabled character #moodboards and edits #toi's creations #toi's indigenous tolkien series #aspecardaweek #mepoc #contains image description #for prompt: asexual

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vidumavi · 1 year

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