Illustrating stories; discussing Tolkien, pop culture, sci-fi, and politics at times. They/He.
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Eärendil
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Gothmog was the King of Balrogs - fire “spirits” who took Melkor’s side at the very beginning. I wanted to depict what would be a very short timeframe where he looks like a maia without Melkor’s stain on his existence, and my creative take is that he actually loved the icy landscapes… +
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“… The Númenóreans lived long in her protection, and held her in reverence equal to the Valar.“
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Ossë and Uinen’s partnership is giving “behind every successful woman there is a husband who halts her progress”
… before turning into a fiery creature amidst the freezing darkness of Angband. While a crown is about to be placed on his head by Morgoth, the flames within him cracks his skin open.
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Alatar, Morihentar, Palacendo, Darkness Slayer, Blue Wizard. Hard to say if they’re the same Maia but also isn’t wild to assume so. Oromë’s friend is the only Istar who had a request which was company. He headed East, never to return. I prefer the version where Alatar did slay some darkness, 1/2
... otherwise Sauron could use cruelly for nothing but destruction This is to me how he looked like in Valinor, always challenging the dark with little crystals hanging from antlers on his shoulders, in reference to his association with Oromë who wears an antler-crown in my visual lore.
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“Eönwë [is] the banner-bearer and herald of Manwë, whose might in arms is surpassed by none in Arda.”
The leader of the host that saved the Middle-earth from Morgoth himself was not an easy task to depict but I stuck with Tolkien’s non-Silmarillion association of Eönwë with the hues of sapphire +
“[Ossë’s] spouse is Uinen, the Lady of the Seas, whose hair lies spread through all waters under sky. All creatures she loves that live in the salt streams, and all weeds that grow there; to her mariners cry, for she can lay calm upon the waves, restraining the wildness of Ossë.”
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… and got inspiration from Roman and Ottoman commanders, creating a banner sigil for Manwë which here is worn on the chest plate, and making up a lot based on feathers and birds.
