#half of my reasoning is just that i always forgot to check Tolkien Gateway for help with their canon colours XD

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This is something that I question every time I click on your profile, and I finally got the courage to say it...

AHHHH💖💝💗

First of all I want to say how amazing and lovely you are, and I love how you show that in all of your art. Every single time you upload it makes me happy and I just gotta download them on my phone >.< 💓💓

Now! For the question Owo.

Why do you draw all dark-eyed characters with green eyes? (Maeglin and Miriel)

Idk why but it really bugged me 👉🏻👈🏻

Not trying to be meam by the way AHHHHH 💓💝💖👉🏻💗💖💓💗👈🏻

I hope you have a lovely day 💘←°›°→

hahaha thank you so much!!! you are so sweet to say all that qwq 💓💓 the REAL amazing ones are you guys who write such kind things! still, I'm so very grateful for your support!! 🥰

now about the question about eyes! man, you guys really are observant 😂 im gonna be honest and say-- i didnt even realise that I was giving the dark-eyed characters in particular green eyes instead lmao?! Is that a recurring thing that's been happening?!?! ━Σ(ﾟДﾟ|||) I really should check Tolkien Gateway more often HHAHA stiil, i'll try to explain myself!!!

admittedly, as much as I try to stay faithful to Tolkien's descriptions, i take creative liberties when I'm designing characters. for example, the Noldor are described as typically having grey eyes. But personally for me at least, I'd find it really boring to colour if everyone I drew had grey/silver eyes which is why I prefer changing things when I draw... if that makes sense?

it's not that i dislike Tolkien's canon descriptions, though! I actually adore the concept of the Noldor having characteristic grey-silver eyes that shine like the light of Telperion; that's what I stick with when I'm writing XD But when I draw, I love varying colours so that bit is my creative liberty sacrifice...!

So my reason for Miriel goes: I gave Feanor green eyes for fun back in December 2020 when I first drew him, and it's stuck since! And since I wanted to follow Finwe's description of having 'grey-blue eyes' (the Shibboleth of Feanor, p. 357), Feanor had to get his genetics from somewhere or it'd bug me.... so Miriel ended up with green eyes! here's a little genealogy tree 😙

Now when it comes to Maeglin, it was purely by whim 😂 I drew him with dark reddish-burgundy eyes first in March, but when I got Consultant Boo's opinion on it, he said it was kind of stereotypical that I gave a villain-coded character red eyes- and I was like 'well darn, you got a point!!'. So he suggested green instead, I didn't mind it, and that's how he ended up with green eyes!

So YEAH... it probably doesn't really make much sense, but that's my reasoning! I hope it's a passable explanation LMAO 🙇‍♀️ Thank you for taking time to ask, and I hope YOU have a lovely rest of your week as well!! 💓