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Manwë Súlimo, lord of the West!

I have lots of projects I needed to finish, so I decided to procrastinate on all of them and do a quick entry for @thelien-art’s DTIYS challenge instead :) I love this design so much!

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Thank you to @southaway art for the art tag! The prompt was to post six older artworks and one WIP. Which immediately gave me deer-in-headlights eyes because I’ve only been drawing actively for about … 10 months? and don’t have a huge backlog. So I had to scrounge a bit to find stuff that wasn’t already posted here:

Beren finds the body of his father amid carrion crows - posted briefly in … December 2024? Then took it down in a crisis of confidence (lol).

Eärendil and Tilion’s ships passing in the night - a silly doodle I did for the SWG Potluck when I had artblock, also Dec 2024.

Artists of Arda stamp collection! feat. Lúthien, Ecthelion, Maglor and Daeron for the April 2025 SWG Musicals challenge.

Finrod and Andreth! This is the oldest piece, maybe from Oct 2024? didn’t really understand layering and was nervous to work in anything but monochrome. It’s unfinished because I messed up the layers so badly I gave up, but it’s very nostalgic to me.

Nienna weeps over the ruined Trees: I also posted this and took it down. Not sure why!

Kiddos of the Edain - Just some Edain kid!designs. I never posted because I was never happy with Rian’s color palette. But I had a lot of fun (and pointers from @outofangband on dyes and fabric that I mostly failed to implement lol)

My current WIP (besides TRSB) is this rescuer!Fingon:

No-pressure tagging @ulmondil, @corsairspade, @balrogballs, @koriandr0wu, @ laisrinel.

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“To none was her heart’s love given”

Excited to share my contribution to the SWG’s Mereth Aderthad 2025! This was the featured artwork for the Aromantic in Tolkien presentation, feat. Bilbo, Aredhel, Boromir and a bonus Ancalimë. :) The event’s free digital zine is now online and contains 60 pages of lovely fanworks!

It’s real crunchy on Tumblr, but you can click below to see the full art:

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lord of the house of the golden flower!

Artfight revenge on @ecthelioffd’s absolutely stunning xianxia!Glorfindel design :)

this one got edited a couple of times i’m sorry to everyone who reblogged the low quality versions

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refugee fam beach day feat. elwing and elros :)

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kinslayer

A quick doodle of a katar-wielding Celegorm for @arwenindomiel’s 2025 Tolkien South Asian Week! The stabbiest and punchiest of weapons for the stabbiest and punchiest of elves.

This is a loose fantasy take on on 18th c. Rajasthani armor! (usual caveat: I don’t know anything about history OR armor except how to use google):

-katar: A punch-dagger! I read that they were sometimes used two-handed, and I don’t know if that’s accurate, but I gave him two for double the stabbiness.

- armor: His coat is a chilta hazar masha. I love the distinctively curved shoulder-guards and the stitching — they are so beautiful and feel very elvish. I got very lazy and did not bother to draw the quilting properly, but the real thing is spectacular!

- chainmail helm: A fantasy take on a kulah kudh helmet to allow for elf ears while still protecting the face. There are two separate panels — one solid in back and one split panel draped over the nose. I also wanted to make the helmet part a bit more fantasy, so I added a falcon-y beak and wing motif for the Celegorm the hunter look.

- which I realized made him look very Assassin’s Creed, so I hurriedly toned it down and replaced it with a more realistic spike and rounded cap. rip celegorm you would’ve loved assassin’s creed

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“Nessa, the sister of Oromë, and she also is lithe and fleetfooted … in dancing she delights, and she dances in Valimar on lawns of never-fading green.”

A bharatanatyam-inspired Nessa for @arwenindomiel’s Tolkien South Asian Week 2025!

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“… it shrieked, and fell backward from the rock, and falling clutched Glorfindel’s yellow locks beneath his cap, and those twain fell into the abyss.”

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Finally finished my Silmarillion/Lord of the Rings bookmark design! (Tumblr predictably destroyed the quality but you can click to see the original 🥲)

The top follows the story of Silmarillion from the Darkening of Valinor to Elwing’s flight from Sirion (upper left to upper right), and the bottom follows the Lord of the Rings from Bag-End to Mordor (lower right to lower left). At the end, of course, we end up back in Valinor to close the loop.

It ended up a bit cluttered because there was so much I wanted to fit in, but overall I’m rather happy with it :)

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Argon’s first moonrise (he won’t live to see the sun)

(A colored version of one of the sketches posted here.)

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the founding members of the “forgotten finwëans” club!

findis (right) is president, argon (top) is vice-president, angrod (left) is secretary, and lalwen (bottom) is a member in bad standing because she never pays her dues

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More assorted very rough sketches from the SWG March/April challenge!

[[In order: Galadriel departing Valinor; older Beren and Lúthien sharing an affectionate moment; Argon marveling at the first moonrise; Aerin, Morwen and Rían as children.]]

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of all the wonderful and imaginative Gil-galad origin stories out there, “Fingon stumbles across a stray orphan on the battlefield and adopts him” is maybe my favorite

Originally posted on the SWG.

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Some of the rough sketches I’ve made so far for the SWG March challenge. Since I don’t have time to finish them properly, I thought I’d share in one big batch :)

[in order: Finrod reflects on the loss of his scars after returning from the Halls; Ainulindalë; Túor as a thrall in Hithlum; Melian mourning Thingol.]

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brimby and narv!

Quick lineart for a sketch posted for SWG’s March challenge here.

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a candle and his moth

(an extremely late aegnor for @arafinwean-week 😬)

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idril silverfoot 💛