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sesamenom · 1 year ago

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Ok, this (very belated) time we've got somebody with really nice hair, a lot of trauma (possibly related to previous bad decisions?), a Noldorin level of fire and song, and a relative lack of doom and current anger.

and it's....GALADRIEL!

Galadriel fighting for the teleri at the first kinslaying

I actually had some difficulty figuring this one out, so I ended up working backwards. Trauma + bad decisions means they're likely a Noldo, and hair being a defining (canon, sorry maglor) trait points us towards either one of the arafinweans, redheads, or fingon. Low levels of doom rule out the feanorions/redheads and low song eliminates fingon and finrod, leaving us with the options of angrod, aegnor, orodreth, or galadriel. Of those, aegnor is too fiery, orodreth's Bad Decisions outweigh his hair in terms of defining characteristics, and anyways galadriel is the only one who lived long enough to have the lingering bad-decision-related-trauma without active anger.

I'm finally going to have time to do some bigger drawings soon, so here's another build an elf. Once again, I'll draw whoever it ends up being (and maybe a bonus interaction with the Build an Elf 1 winner, Dior!)

#silm #silmarillion #galadriel #build an elf #fun details:#the bluish color of her cape and shield is the color i use for a lot of teleri #its both a sea/water color and a nice contrast to the fire #which is there bc i like to imagine that feanor also burnt the buildings finwe helped olwe build #the design on her shield and armor is a somewhat modified version of finarfin's rayed device #the decorative designs on her armor marks it as something she never thought would have to see real battle in valinor #before this it was mostly ceremonial armor and for fun sparring with the cousins #the wide sash with a thin belt is an element of a lot of doriathrim and telerin outfits #inspiration courtesy of @lycheesodas #but the metal plate in the middle replacing the telerin beads is a more noldorin element #(also the armor may or may not be that fancy to spite am*zon's design)#like stop putting the feanorian star everywhere bc you saw it on the doors of durin-#finarfin has his own design! take a look at the actual noldorin heraldry!#and anyways whats with the braid tolkien specifically said she had her hair bound up #sorry for the rant #if you enjoy the show i dont hold it against you #but personally i. do not agree with their creative decisions. at all.

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