#the silmarillion

[the-freckle-on-feanors-butt]

Thinkin about the firstborn sons and their dads and how Fingolfin was stomped to death and Fingon was also kinda stomped to death, and Fëanor caught on fire and Maedhros also kinda went down in flames 

Anyway goodnight everyone~

[pippingender]

J r r Tolkien reading the Bible being like “I gotta write one of these”

[jimziart]

:(

This was supposed to be a sketch, but I over-rendered it :/, I'm still not satisfied with how it looks but I still think it looks interesting :3

[marmota-b]

"#surviving WWI must have given him some great amputee jokes"

Exactly where my mind went. Would not surprise me if this was based on a real conversation. Carried by British people with exemplary British humour.

This is so legendary Tolkien cannot help being hilarious he tries to be this serious dry narrator but I see you Mr. Stand up comedy

[thetiredprometheus]

Maedhros: do not call me maitimo anymore. Thangorodrim has changed me, the name doesn't suit me anymore.

Maedhros: for you see, I am no longer quite so *hand*some

Maglor: Nelyo, please stop

Maedhros: Never

[metamorphesque]

The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien

[evydraws]

Stealing a Silmaril - detail of a new acrylic painting inspired by Beren and Lúthien

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[eowyn-igneelcheshire]

I'm already in the process of trying. I swear I can do this

[likesdoodling]

This is one of my 'I didn't have a great internet connection' pictures of the week, have some Maglor and the twins! Here's some close ups-

[nighttimepatrons]

Here it is!!! I have been cooking in every spare moment and finally it is done! AAAaaaaaa!!! This is easily the best drawings of Elrond and Celebrian I've ever done, and the dragon designs for Erestor and Glrofindel literally make me grin every time I look at them :D Originally I planned for these pieces to belong to my Great Beasts AU, however, once I started on the Celebrian and Glorfindel piece I just- I'm just getting the vibe of some sort of arranged marriage au, ah! Elrond and Celebrain just have Such a Vibe about them! I am in love!

These pieces each provided their own difficulties but I'm really really glad I just stuck with it, I could hardly be more pleased!

Below the cut I've added some detail shots, I hope you enjoy :>

This is the first time in a while that I've done such an intensive work with alcohol markers, they can be a bit of a challenge, especially since my hands aren't ultra steady, but adding the scale details to the dragons and all the extra highlights with my gel pens really brought it all together.

Also,the markers bleeding through the pages left a lovely ghost image in the spread between the two pieces

This work came out so well that I really wish I did them on actually good paper, and not just in my little scrappy sketchbook. Oh well, that seems to be my curse xD

[quinn10121012]

“But as he stood, finding himself free, and ready to sell his life dearly against imagined foes, there came a great flash of lightning above them; and in its light he looked down on Beleg’s face.” - The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

Red hair, female = Nerdanel

Dark hair, holding a fucked-up sword, clearly having the worst day of his life = Túrin

Black hair, dressed exactly like Firelord Ozai = Fëanor again

a lot of tolkien’s characters are absurdly similar looking to each other but after a while you develop this weird sixth sense for which distressed black haired blue eyed dude is being depicted in any given art

[hailturinturambar]

“I was in your place once. In the eldest of the Elder Days. Thirteen of us were chosen to be blessed of Morgoth’s hand, with the promise of power. A new birth. I was led up to a dark and nameless peak. Chained and left. And after what seemed endless thirst and hunger… I saw it. His servant’s face. Sauron’s face. And it was beautiful. He offered me wine, red as a blood moon. He offered me wine, and on that dark and nameless peak, I drank it. I drank it all.”

Adar about SAURON in The Rings of Power

[balrogballs]

My favourite thing about the Tolkien fandom is how — no matter what side of the discourse people are on and no matter what differences in opinion people may have about film, book, show and fanon portrayals of the characters — it is a truth universally acknowledged that Second Age Elrond Peredhel, in the process of courting Celebrían, was the closest thing Middle Earth had to Mr. Bean.

[thetiredprometheus]