#vair

[showmehowtoelectriceel]

OCtober day 6 - the past!

[dingoat]

Just a little bunch of surprise bothans! Featuring @mimabeann's stunning Vair, @shahfla's lovely Kovar (gather ye 'round, and he'll tell you a tale!) and @kunoichi-ume's powerhouse wrestler Emah.

[anthony-does-art]

Along came a spider...

[Image ID: A pen drawing of a young teenager. They have multiple eyes and small horns. Their hair is swept back and slightly wavey, with goat ears that blend in with their hair. They are lighty gripping a string and they are in the process of spinning it into yarn. They have an extra pair of arms disappearing beyond the frame. End ID]

[francepittoresque]

ÉTYMOLOGIE | Pantoufles de Cendrillon : de verre ou de vair ? ➽ https://bit.ly/Cendrillon-Pantoufles-Verre-Vair Dans le conte « Cendrillon » prenant vie en 1697 dans sa version la plus connue grâce à Charles Perrault, l'auteur mentionnait une pantoufle « de verre » et non « de vair »

[heraldrydiculous]

355 Tinctureless

[reticent-fate]

there's something really annoying about not just being a fictive...

but a fictive based on someone's ask blog interpretation of your character (because there was no character in the source, like literally no lines of dialogue)...

and from a series that's so small that that's the most non-body-made content there ever was in one place...

and that also being a point of contention with the system because we were severely fucked up by everything social about that archipelago of the fandom

ourghhh

like, come on. i can count the number of people that have drawn my source with less than one hand. especially considering two pieces of art of my source that we saved on our computer a decade ago can no longer be found on the internet apparently.

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-vairne

[valerietheriaultd]

La pantoufle de verre (ou de vair?) de Cendrillon

D'après Charles Perrault, le célèbre auteur de Cendrillon, elle portait des pantoufles de verre. Perrault, qui était d'ailleurs membre de l'Académie française, a utilisé cette orthographe plusieurs fois. Par contre, elle a soulevé beaucoup de questionnements.

Ainsi, Balzac, dans son roman Le Martyr calviniste, a émis l'hypothèse qu'il s'agissait plutôt de «vair», soit la fourrure d'une espèce d'écureuil nommée le petit-gris. Plusieurs écrivains sont intervenus dans le débat, et on a cru à une erreur d'orthographe d'un imprimeur.

Mais qu'en est-il vraiment? Des recherches nous apprennent qu'on se servait du vair pour décorer des vêtements au Moyen-Âge. Il était réservé à la grande noblesse. Ainsi, dans le cas de la princesse Cendrillon, l'emploi du vair avait peut-être plus de sens qu'une pantoufle en verre! Gageons que c'était également plus confortable!

Par contre, il faut garder à l'esprit qu'il s'agit d'un conte merveilleux: une pantoufle de cristal ajouterait à la magie de l'histoire. D'autant plus qu'à l'époque où ce texte a été écrit, le verre, précieux, était en vogue. Bref, c'est un débat loin d'être terminé!

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Sources:

[sempermoi]

I am trying to get out of art block so have a Vairë ^^

[showmehowtoelectriceel]

OCtober day 3 - old oc! i've had vair and noenne for 5 whole years so. they rightfully take this place

[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.

[dinrelsanddragons]

"You must not be familiar with the consequences of the Upheaval," Vair stated, to nods from Gateni and Raven. "I see. We've received reports that the sky islands hold more than a few old relics from the Zonai, to the point that we believe the Zonai had settled them, so long ago. My great-granddaughter Eruca has taken to tinkering with the various parts that she is brought."

A redheaded woman came running over, as if at the mention of her name. "Sir Vair!" Not missed was the tiny expression of chagrin at not being referred to more familiarly by his great-granddaughter, but she wasn't exactly a child anymore, at 31 years. "And Your Majesty! I just finished my latest." She held up this strange... perhaps it looked like a short segment of tree branch, but on the end was a modified unicorn's head, with the horn sticking out of its nose, and some kind of trigger button sat at its jaw. "The base relic is a beam emitter that Link brought me, but I modified it into a more hand-held form. I'm not sure what to call it besides a handheld light cannon."

"I think my husband would have had a name for it," Vair mused wistfully. "He had names for just about every esoteric and strange concept he found, as if he had seen them before."

It was a long moment that Jacinto stared in bewilderment, face pale. This.. it couldn't be. And yet, everything pointed to his oldest friend- a little older, perhaps, but this couldn't be any other than Vair Bhelthir. But, to look at him as though he'd not a clue.. no. He knew it was far-fetched.

Ernst... Eruca? No idea, and yet he spoke as if they were relatives. The Vair he knew had no connection to anyone by those names. After what could be thousands of years, perhaps this was an identical descendant. And yet, such a shock was difficult to shake.

"Forgive me, V-Sir Vair. You... simply look a great deal as an old friend of mine. I was quite caught by surprise. I hope I have not offended, Your Majesty."

In turn, he could not help but smile at this apparent reunion between mother and child. How close in age they appeared... another effect of time travel? At the mention of the Zonai, however, he blinked.

"Zonai? Do you refer to the ruins in Floria, sir? The People of Mystery did not seem to leave much behind."

[anthony-does-art]

Doing some story changes so enjoy some doodles

[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).

[velvet4510]

Headcanon that all that juicy stuff such as the hug, the acorn moment, “to me he was…” etc. all happened in book canon too because who says it didn’t, Bilbo just wanted to keep and treasure those moments to himself and leave them out of his memoir.

SO when Thorin went to Aulë’s corner in the Halls of Mandos, he watched Bilbo and Balin’s “to me he was” talk via Vairë’s tapestries. And he wondered what the rest of that sentence was, especially as the rest of the company insisted Bilbo’s use of “friend” to the house thieves was an oversimplification and not the real truth.

When Bilbo finally arrived in the Halls, though the Gift of Men could not be taken from him, he was allowed a few hours in Aulë’s corner to reconnect with the Dwarves one last time before leaving Arda. Once everyone had caught up on Bilbo’s life, and he’d said his last farewells to most of them, he and Thorin went to Aulë’s gates alone.

What followed was akin to the WandaVision finale. Though they knew they could not stay like this, Thorin’s last request was to know the rest of that one unfinished sentence he once overheard. “…What am I to you?” Bilbo’s answer was a parallel to, if not word for word, “You are my sadness and my hope, but mostly you’re my love.” One last hug and kiss, a promise to reunite when the world is remade, and Bilbo departed from Arda.

[atane-is-here]

Doomsmans Bride 2

[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)