#irmo

[sakasakiii]

started off as me redrawing some of my initial mairon designs and ended up going on an rpg tangent 😭 i really wish i could have done the portraits in a pixel art style to better fit the aesthetic but my canvas wasnt the right size!!! i ended up changing annatar completely (im still contemplating how much i prefer this one compared to his old one however...!) and adjusting post-numenor sauron a bit when compared to their old 2022 sketches! im probably gonna do more redraws in the months to come cause of all the stuff i wanna change when i look back to some of my old designs haha 😳

bonus: void delusions (nebula background designed by Freepik)

i like to think each 'form' sauron takes eventually has different mannerisms and likes/dislikes the longer he stays in them without shapeshifting into something else, but one thing they all have in common is being predisposed to nagging melkor 😎

[tolkien-povs]

Okay, the only proof of Námo being an awkward introvert is him saying, "Not the first" when Fëanáro was having a breakdown as to how he would be the first elf killed in Aman.

Like, just read that passage. He doesn't talk at all, except those three words, and revels in the side-eyes everyone gives him. But of course, no one thinks of it until Finwë is declared dead.

But still. Námo, the Doomsayer of The Valar, The Lord of The Dead, Lord of The Halls of Mandos, One of The Kings of Arda, is definitely an awkward introvert.

[atane-is-here]

@ainurweek

Lorien and Este / The Two Trees

Este and Irmo are dancing under the light of Telperion and Laurelin as some of their Maiar float around and watch them. They are anticipating the arrival of the eldar in their new lands.

[eldamaranquendi]

Irmo Lorien & Este the Gentle, Lady of Healing

by Rene Gross

[buttered-toasty]

The dreaming god of the gardens…

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Quite frankly no one makes him nearly weird enough for my tastes. He should have even more eyes than this I think but there’s already fuckoff huge visual noise so

[gracefallingart]

The Valar at Creation

This work in progress has been beating me up. I know that this is a pretty (non-supernatural) version of them but I wanted to make the whole group looking out upon the vision of Arda.

Staging all of them has been a struggle so far and I will think very hard before attempting a large detailed group piece like this again. There is still so much to add and do… but basic line work is finished.

Left to Right: (Melkor, Oromë, Yavanna, Vána, Aulë, Nessa, Tulkas, Ulmo, Manwë, Varda, Nienna, Vairë, Námo, Estë, Irmo).

[daily-smol-silm]

Day #184 - Upside Down

So that's what Irmo was doing

[cilil]

I like to hc that, much like us (the fandom), the Valar also have their blorbos and special little guys.

Manwë is (canonically) besties with the Vanyar, Ulmo with the Teleri, Aulë with the Noldor, plus of course his Dwarves. Varda is the fan favorite of all Elves and loves them (she got so excited about them in Lost Tales, it was so cute).

Oromë brought the Mearas as a gift and got super excited that an entire kingdom of horse girls was formed. He loves the Rohirrim and sometimes disguises himself as one of them to sneak into their hunting parties. Vána is in on it too.

Yavanna and Irmo absolutely adore Hobbits and blessed them with a great love for quiet countrysides and the charming ability to just enjoy life and its good things. Irmo also visited them in disguise and brought pipeweed to make friends. Aulë and Yavanna ship Bagginshield.

Nienna, as usual, loves everyone, but has a special soft spot for Orcs because they need someone on their side. She probably adopted them already and forced Námo to go along with it and let her have them whether he wanted to or not.

[distinguisheddwarffriend]

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)

[whosthatsilmcharacter]

Accidentally set the poll for 1 day instead of one week 🙃. Please recast your votes!

(All art used with EXPRESS permission from the artist)

[mossy-thing]

Up until now, I've imagined Miriel's body in the Gardens of Lorien as if she was arranged in a coffin. Her hair is neatly braided and her hands arranged on her stomach, she lies on her back and her skin is white like a corpse.

But wouldn't it be way more devastating if she really looked like she was only sleeping? Her fingers twitch from time to time, her cheeks are rosy, and her hair is tangled in the leaves and moss around her. What if she alway lies slightly differently than when her family last visited her, and they will never figure out if she truly moved or if the Maiar of Irmo are playing tricks on them?

What if her eyelids flutter from time to time, like she will wake up any moment now?

[batsyforyou]

You Lack a Seat. The Elves + Guest Stars React

Tags: uh, random nonsense?

Author's Note: This is what I did for the 'other' and I attempted the style I've seen @a-contemplation-upon-flowers use sometimes. So, let me know how I did! Also, disclaimer, I am a firm believer that most of these characters would actually just get you a chair or offer you theirs because the elves are traditional and well mannered folk (most of the time).

Taglist: @asianbutnotjapanese

Would find you a chair 

Feanor, Maedhros, Carathnir, Erestor, Curufin, Elrond, Ecthelion, Finrod, Turgon, Fingon, Gil Galad, Namo, Fingolfin

Would kneel on the ground to prop his leg up as a makeshift chair

Glorfindel, Fingon, Elladan, Beleg, Irmo 

Would have you sit on his arm rest 

Celegorm, Curufin, Thranduil, Namo, Sauron

Would offer you their chair 

Celebrimbor, Maglor, Elrond, Elrohir, Erestor, Eonwe, Lindir, Glorfindel, Maeglin, Finrod, Fingon, Legolas, Mablung, Manwe, Ulmo, Gildor, Finarfin

Would set their cloak out for you to sit 

Mablung, Glorfindel, Elrond, Maglor, Maedhros, Elrohir, Finrod, Gil Galad, Gildor, Celebrimbor, Finarfin, 

Would have you sit on their lap

Glorfindel, Elladan, Celegorm, Sauron, Thranduil 

Would have you sit at their feet 

Melkor, Sauron, Eol, Thranduil,

Masterlist

[i-am-death-and-i-am-doom]

Manwë & Irmo dynamic is severely underutilized. Irmo is the only one of the Valar who actually gets Manwë's feelings about Melkor, because he also has an older brother he's very close with. And being the Lord of Dreams he does not lack in imagination.

[saintstars]

The Dreamer and the Healer

For @ainurweek

[silmarillaure]

Ranking the Valar by how much I hate them.

12: Lorien/Irmo - Idk why, but I kind of vibe with him. His only fault is being Mandos’s brother but he didn’t really do anything to piss me off himself. He seems dreamy & has a nice garden.

11: Orome - He’s cool but he’s still a Vala (who are objectively horrible) at the end of the day. Gets points for not going out of his way to make the Feanorians lives worse though & giving Celegorm a cool but disloyal dog.

12: Aule - Thank you for the Dwarves king! Unfortunately he’s married to Yavanna who I can not stand.

11: Nienna - Her heart seems to be in the right place. I like her.

10: Este - I don’t speak ill of healers on this blog! Even though she failed to heal Miriel I guess, she still made a bigger effort than everyone else.

9 & 8: Vana & Nessa - I just don’t think about them to be honest.

7: Tulkas - His purpose for existing is to beat up Melkor but he’s not even perfect at that. What’s wrong with you dude? Were you asleep when Melkor was making Feanor & Turin’s lives hell?

6: Yavanna - Her entitlement makes me seethe. I guess she did create the two trees but she basically gave away the light for free, she can’t ask for it back. Not the worst though, but I still don’t like her.

5: Vaire - Girl it’s nice of you to let Miriel live with you and all but why the heck were you like “but what about Indis's feelings” when Finwe was talking about how he wanted to give up getting reembodied for Miriel. This ain’t about Indis, why do her feelings matter?

4: Varda - Hallowing the Silmarills was such an a-hole move. The hallowing isn’t even fair, it’s just about who Varda wants to have the Silmarills. Does she think THINGOL is pure hearted? The Silmarill should have burnt him to a crisp.

3: Ulmo - Nothing short of a salty b!tch, thank goodness he’s single because I’d feel bad for anyone who had to put up with him. And why does he like bland ass TUOR so much while hating talented icons like the Feanorians?!

2: Manwe - He’s the 2nd fakest creature in existence after his big brother. Feanor doesn’t want your tears, where were you when your brother was murdering his dad, stealing his work, & previously harassing him for years non stop?

1: Mandos/Namo - F*ck this a-hole. At least Manwe has the excuse of being canonically stupid. He’s just an ass for the sake of it. And what’s his beef with Feanor? Free my king, all his faults are because you decided to shove Indis into his life & allowed Melkor to go free.

The actual #1: Melkor (obviously)

[buttered-toasty]

*thinks about Írmo even harder if you can believe it*

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Me going one month without putting some sort of reptile fact in my work challenge level impossible. Anyways begging all of you to look at a cobra’s skeleton their hoods are such a fucking cool adaptation