#Unfinished Tales
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King Oropher with prince Thranduil comissioned by @pastelsugar6w6 Thank you so much for your trust and patience !
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Only you could accomplish such art, Celebrimbor
Assad Zaman as Celebrimbor from JRR Tolkien's The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales
#celebrimbor#the silmarillion#tolkien#noldor#assad zaman#unfinished tales#tolkien elves#my art#assad zaman I will draw you as all the elves#clip studio paint#yes i gave him the ring inscription halo motif#i like to imagine his expression is very haunted here#as though this is the moment when he understands what annatar is and whats happened#he's hearing the verse in his mind he hears the voice of sauron#and he understands#you feel me?#for anyone unfamiliar this character is not a villain i just like the moody lighting 😔
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Tar-Ancalimë, first Ruling Queen of Númenor.
#queen shepherdess my beloved#silmarillion#silm#tolkien#numenor#numenorians#tar ancalime#unfinished tales
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"Will you then pass over Sea?" Celebrimbor asked.
"Nay," Galadriel said. "Angrod is gone, and Aegnor is gone, and Felagund is no more. Of Finarfin’s children I am the last. But my heart is still proud. What wrong did the golden house of Finarfin do that I should ask the pardon of the Valar, or be content with an isle in the sea whose native land was Aman the Blessed? Here I am mightier.”
Unfinished Tales, The History of Galadriel and Celeborn
#galadriel#the rings of power#rings of power#lord of the rings#the silmarillion#unfinished tales#valinor#artanis#finrod felagund#aegnor#angrod#the golden house of finarfin#finarfin#house of finwe#finrod#silmarillion#the lord of the rings#lord of the rings: the rings of power#celebrimbor#tyelperinquar
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Ulmo, Valar of the Sea, Tuor, and Voronwë from Tolkien's Unfinished Tales, by Alba Real.
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Answer [SPOILER]: I think that may be somewhat premature. More than that, I couldn't possibly tell you. — Nerdist, 2024
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A Welcome Interruption
And here is my second piece for @tolkienrsb!
Celebrían has decided that Elrond's spent long enough working today and it's time for a break ;) this is in collaboration with @fishing4stars and I cannot wait for you guys to read the fic, so keep an eye out for it! I will update this post with a link once the gallery opens on September 6th.
Please do not repost to another site, and do NOT feed my artwork to AI. Reblogs very much appreciated!
#elrond#celebrian#elrond x celebrian#celrond#trsb2024#trsb24#my art#the silmarillion#unfinished tales#crop top elrond crop top elrond
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Looking at the parts on Númenor in Unfinished Tales (and the LOTR appendix chronology) made me notice something Tolkien does with the history of Númenor that is very thoughtful, very important, and often neglected by other fantasy authors: he distinguishes between fighting on the right side and being the good guys, and he even delves into how those two things can work against each other.
Three times in particular, the Númenoreans help to defend Middle-Earth against Sauron. In Aldarion’s time, in the 800s, Aldarion spends much time establishing and rebuilding a port/haven on the coast of southern Eriador, to guard against invasion of the north through what will later be the Gap of Rohan. In 1700, Tar-Minastir sends a large force to drive back Sauron and rescue Gil-galad and Elrond and their people after the forging of the Rings and the destruction of Eregion. And, of course, near the end of the Second Age Ar-Pharazon sends the vast fleet and army that takes Sauron captive.
And each of these times are associated with successive stages in Númenor’s moral decline.
Aldarion is the first warning sign. His father, Tar-Meneldur, a wise man, discourages his voyaging, accurately fearing that it “sows the seeds of recklessness and the desire of other lands to hold”. Aldarion likewise marks the beginning of Númenoreans regarding nature as something to be valued for its use rather than for itself: trees as timber, not as forests. This is also when the Númenoreans begin to log Eriador - their logging will eventually be so extensive that, whereas virtually the whole area from the coast to the Misty Mountains to the Gap of Rohan was forested at the start of the Second Age, by the time of LOTR only the tiny fragment of the Old Forest remains. It’s not for nothing that the trees there are hostile to Men (and Hobbits). (This may not have been happening in the same way in Aldarion’s time - in Númenor he spends great efforts on replanting trees, nothwithstanding the ecological distinction between ‘tree plantations’ and ‘forests’, and he may have done the same in Middle-earth - but it’s still the starting point.)
And he does work extensively in Middle-earth to build defences against Sauron (or ‘the shadow in the east’; they don’t know it’s Sauron yet) and is described as “the friend and counsellor of Gil-Galad.” Yet the very growth in power, pragmatism, and expansionism that is involved in doing this is the start of Númenor’s downward path.
Next, we have Tar-Minastir, who drives back Sauron from Eregion during the War of the Elves and Sauron, following the forging of the Rings of Power, when Gil-galad, Elrond, and the Elves of Eregion are almost defeated. Unfinished Tales says “he loved the Eldar but envied them” and built a high tower to gaze westwards towards Valinor. And it is in the immediate aftermath of his rule that Númenor enters its phase of exploitative imperialism: his son Tar-Ciryatan is “a mighty king, but greedy of wealth; he built a great fleet of royal ships, amd his servants brought back great store of metal and gems, and oppressed the men of Middle-earth.” The next king, Tar-Atanamir, likewise “exacted heavy tribute from the men of the coasts of Middle-earth”, and was the first to be openly hostile to the Valar and the Eldar. The Silmarillion describes Ciryatan and Atanamir as “proud men, eager for wealth” who “laid the men of Middle-earth under tribute, taking now rather than giving”.
(As an aside: this is a period where I’m particularly curious about what Gil-galad and Elrond were thinking, and the decisions they had to make. The Númenoreans have just recently decisively rescued them, and it may not be going too far to say the Elves of Eregion and Lindon are military dependent on Númenor. And yet the Númenoreans are now mistreating and oppressing the men of Middle-earth. How to balance military/political pragmatism and ethics? Are the Númenoreans friends or not? Should they be trying to do anything to stop Númenorean empire? Can they do anything? Does benefitting from Númenorean military might while not doing anything make them complicit? Do they try to talk to the Númenoreans? And for Elrond in particular, on top of the moral vs pragmatic concerns, there’s the knowledge that it’s his brother’s descendents and successors who are doing this - in a sense, the only family he has left.)
And lastly, of course, we have Ar-Pharazon, who defeats Sauron but without being any better than Sauron, and who is corrupted by him, wreaks devastation on the men of Middle-earth and on his political opponents at home, and leads Númenor to its destruction.
It feels like this reinforces the themes of The Lord of the Rings, that victory over evil is not one by seeking to overpower it, but by renunciation of power. The downfall of Númenor highlights this by contrast by showing the corrupting force of accumulated imperial power, even when used against a foe that is genuinely evil.
#tolkien#the silmarillion#numenor#unfinished tales#numenoreans#gil galad#elrond#aldarion and erendis
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i love playing with the idea that mairon thinks of himself and annatar as two different people
he's like a little method actor and when he thinks of his time in eregion he's like those were annatar's friends and annatar's home and when he's torturing celebrimbor and celebrimbor says 'i thought you were my friend' he says 'no annatar was your friend'
#sauron#annatar#mairon#silmarillion#lotr#tolkien#lord of the rings#tolkien thoughts#celebrimbor#unfinished tales#rings of power
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I want to make another drawing of this scene for so long
This is from 2017
This one from 2016
And this from 2015
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Yo I've got another for my by now mixed Tolkien survey series:
(yes, I over-simplified stuff, and had to exclude Tulkas, Melkor & Mandos for lack of answer-options, just comment if you'd have picked them)
#the hobbit#tolkien#middle earth#lord of the rings#silmarillion#arda#unfinished tales#valar#manwë#varda#vana#tulkas#vaire#este#ulmo#irmo#irmo lorien#mandos#aule#mahal#yavanna#oromë#nienna#nessa
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Tolkien said that one of the things he didn't like about LotR was that the book was too short.
In a way I agree with him, because I found the ending so rushed [others always say "that evil" is destroyed in the middle of the book and everything after is just an long epilogue] and yet I found it rushed. And I wanted a lot of the appendices to be narrated chapters, it was interesting to see what the lives of each member of the Fellowship were like in the appendices, but I wanted chapters about.
And I would also like to have seen, narrated chapters, of the Battle of Dale, with Brand (Son of Bain, son of Bard) and Dáin fighting three days against enemy armies and dying. I wish had read a narrative of Thranduill and Celeborn uniting in Mirkwood and destroying Dul Guldur once and for all, and then dividing the region between them. When LotR informs that the others would not come to battle because they already had war at their gates, I wanted the plot to split to show this in other parts.
A better development of the romance between some characters would also be interesting, the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen already makes me cry every time I read it, but I feel like it would be more interesting as a narrative than an appendix. If their marriage went on for another 100 pages I wouldn't mind. And I would like Arwen and Elrond's conversations not to be just subtext.
Faramir and Éowyn, I really love them as a couple, but I think more pages dedicated to their romance would also be interesting. Sam and Rose? I would have liked it more if we had more mentions of the girl throughout the journey, if Sam mentioned her more often throughout the plot, so maybe the end wouldn't seem so sudden. When I say that don't like the development of the "love pairings" in LotR, it's not that I don't like the characters or the ships, but that the narrative wasn't enough for me. Don't get me wrong, I love LotR. But I wanted there to be more to be "narrated" than "told" or "implied" or "pointed out in the appendices."
Yes, I also thought the book was too short. There is a lot between the lines that could come to light more. It could have been another thousand pages. And perhaps it still wasn't enough. How could anyone think that LotR is a very long book?
Maybe that's the problem with Tolkien creating such a complex Universe with such interesting characters: no matter how long the book was, it would never be enough. Because as a fan, I would always want more and more of it. More immersion at all points. Is it always like this with authors who create universes that seem so incredible to read? And when it's gone, it's not enough to fill the void.
And all the posthumous books, like The Silmarillion, or Unfinished Tales (and others), with the tone of "organized drafts" and "told" instead of narrated most of the time, weren't enough for me. I still wanted so much more. And I never will have it. Don't get me wrong, I liked the posthumous books, I think Christopher Tolkien did a good work. But still, when reading, I always asked myself "if this had been published by Tolkien during his lifetime, would it have been like this? What would he have changed yet? What would he have more refined?".
Because, as much as other fans like to see posthumous books as a "canonical" part of the work, like complements. I can only see as unfinished drafts, which it truly are. No matter how well organized are, even The Silmarillion is just a draft organized in the best way, Christopher T says this.
The letters don't count for me either, because Tolkien changed his mind about several things, just like in the drafts.
So I feel that, although the Tolkien Universe is vast, there are a lot of drafts and letters, and little work is actually completed. I liked the posthumous books and the fact that they expanded the universe even further and provided more information. But it becomes a “vicious cycle”, as the information contained there also brings more desire for it be narrated by Tolkien himself in an book he finished (but will never be! Unfortunately).
And that saddens me. Because I wanted so much more. And Tolkien didn't live long enough to give it. In the end, it's a mix of happiness for what Tolkien gave, and sadness for what he still could have given.
#lord of the rings#lotr#the fellowship of the ring#the return of the king#tolkien books#eowyn#faramir#aragorn#arwen#elrond#thranduil#celeborn#the silmarillion#unfinished tales#the hobbit
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“Tolkien bookshelf”
Ink and watercolour illustration created for the poster announcing the annual Tolkien Conference of the German Tolkien Society. More info here: https://bsky.app/profile/tolkienseminardtg.bsky.social
Also: Happy Birthday, Bilbo and Frodo Baggins!
#tolkien#jrr tolkien#tolkien art#tolkien illustration#lord of the rings#lotr#silmarillion#unfinished tales#hobbit#frodo baggins#bilbo baggins#drawing#ink#watercolour
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I bet the Battle of Fornost fucking sucked lol
#Elrohir#lotr#Tolkien#back on my favorite hobby: beating the shit out of the sons of Elrond#I hope whoever came up with the idea that maybe Imladris was involved in that battle gets one million dollars#the lord of the rings#middle earth#the battle of fornost#jrr tolkien#fanart#artists on tumblr#blood#sons of elrond#unfinished tales#the silmarillion#art#I have a vision in my brain that it was very wwi esque#mud trenches demolished landscape etc etc#son of Elrond#my art#whump#traditonal art#elves#fantasy#lotr art#lord of the rings art#tolkien art#tolkien fanart#lotr fanart#third age
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Celebrían, Lady of Imladris
Closeups & more under the cut
Fucking FINALLY finished this piece. It genuinely infuriates me to no end that I can let a piece rot in the wip folder for ten fucking months because my brain won’t let me work on it and then just finish it on a whim in a couple hours because my brain decided to lift the fucking nonexistent magical ban on working on it ANYWAYS.
I was inspired by historical European medieval fashion for this, specifically the wimple/veil and the sideless ermine-lined surcote with fichets. I added the pearl headdress at the last minute as a reference to her mother, Galadriel, who wears Nenya, the ring of water.
Closeups:
Wip process:
Reference image:
(Model is Sasha Luss)
#celebrian#celebrían#elrond#elrond half elven#elrond peredhel#rivendell#imladris#lord of the rings#the lord of the rings#lotr#lotr fanart#lord of the rings fanart#artists on tumblr#small artist#lord of the rings art#lotr art#silmarillion#silm art#the silm fandom#unfinished tales#tolkien#tolkien art#the unfinished tales#j r r tolkien#jrr tolkien#j.r.r. tolkien#galadriel
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anyway they are soooooooo married
#lil celrond doodle <3#this was fun to sketch on stream!!!#also it feels good to finish something haha it's been a while#i can see mistakes in it but w/e i am hypercritical of myself lately#hence drawing celrond bc they bring me such joy#celrond#elrond#celebrian#elrond x celebrian#unfinished tales#tolkien art#my art
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