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do you ever think abt how crazy it is that tolkien meticulously crafted an entire world history, complete with discrete languages, cultures, value systems, the works, but then also popped in this one jolly fellow who likes to sing and love his wife. and oh he's been alive for fuck knows how long. might've even been around at the same time as og big bad melkor. know one knows what he is. elrond's just like he's a 'strange creature'. oh and he's also somehow impervious to the most dangerous object in the world. no biggie guys
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Fingon about to rescue Maedhros from Thangorodrim for day 3 of @russingon-week
I'm kinda scared to post this because I've never really drawn a landscape digitally before... I do like how it turned out though, and I definitely had a lot of fun painting it!
That being said, you might have to click on the image for better quality and details since the file size of this is huge, so the quality will probably be reduced.
Some closeups under the cut:
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Alqualonde but I don’t like some details and technique anymore (want to redraw later, let this piece be here)
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Thinking about how Maglor makes the most cogent argument in The Silmarillion for abandoning the oath, for returning to Aman and accepting their punishment, for the idea that the oath was never valid or enforceable to begin with, and in the end he is overborne by Maedhros' will. Not by his logic, by his will. Maedhros gets what he wants because he pushes until Maglor gives in, against his better judgement, against his own will.
How could Maglor not resent him? How could Maglor not be angry?
He spends potentially thousands of years suffering for what he's done, and in large part because he gave into what Maedhros wanted, because Maedhros refused to listen to him. Maglor wanted to go home and give themselves up; instead he slaughters Eonwe's guard and steals back a Silmaril and lives the rest of his life in exile and isolation, and Maedhros doesn't even have to suffer it too. Maglor yielded to Maedhros' will, and then once he had gotten what he wanted, Maedhros killed himself and left Maglor to survive the consequences.
And Maglor has a lot of time to think about it.
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Maglor, High King of the Noldor
Maglor during the years that Maedhros was in Thangorodrim.
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“...and its jewels and its webs and its things painted and carven…”
For @tolkienekphrasisweek day 1, Ceramics and Glasswork. I always love the thought of items washed up onshore in Middle-earth when Númenor sinks.
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Haldir the Showoff.
Bonus: “Of the hobbits Pippin proved the best for he was sure-footed, and he walked over quickly, holding only with one hand”
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Thinking about what would have happened if the the Valar hadn't given permission to remarry.
Fëanor's talents are there, but maybe he isn't as eager to prove himself because he is sure of his parents' love, even if Míriel remains in Mandos for as long as she needs. There is no Indis to escape, so siblings to compete with. I think this would significantly change his relationship with Finwë. The anxiety is replaced by... well, maybe some resentment that he tried to betray his mother? Their relationship is as complicated as it ever was, the love made less feverish by a lack of anxiety on Fëanor's part, while Finwë on his-- Finwë, who wanted a large family-- clings to his only son all the more.
There is no fear of being replaced, usurped for Fëanor anymore, and I think that would allow other emotions to come to the foreground. Canon Fëanor loved his father above all else, and I don't think this version would necessarily love him less, but... canon Fëanor's love is fueled and strengthened by anxiety. I'd in fact go so far to say that his later possessiveness of the Silmarils is in part a result of how in his early life not just his mother is taken away from him, but also the (imagined?) threat of his father's love for him lessening through attachment to his new siblings.
Then there are the Valar, who make his mother's death final. He doesn't trust and holds onto things because they have been repeatedly taken away from him, and he doesn't trust the Valar with the Silmarils because he doesn't trust them with his mother; they have already shown themselves not to be just in his eyes (a generalisation; they have different opinions, but the authority is Manwë's and he disagrees with his judgement).
All this would change both his opinion of Finwë and the Valar. He wouldn't have been as vulnerable to arguments built on anxiety and paranoia at all, not just because there is no ambitious Nolofinwë with his own jealousy and possesiveness (yes silm canon, literal quote) around, but because, well. It's very sad about his mother, but she might return, one day, even if she says she is too tired now. The Valar have never betrayed his trust yet.
There were apparently already ideas cicrulating among the Noldor about their being meant to fight the Darkness themselves (NoME), and I find it deeply unlikely that Fëanor's audience was so responsive to his arguments about the Noldor being meant to rule Middle Earth without that idea ever circulating before.
And he is never exiled to Formenos. There is no mountain fortress where the Silmarils are hidden from others' eyes, because there is no lack of trust in the Valar, no rumours circulating...nothing.
So what do I think would happen?
Well I'm not sure.
But I think at least one of the possibilities is that Fëanor does break the Silmarils at the request of the Valar. He breaks them.
And he dies.
As he said he would. The Trees are restored, but Finwë's trust in the Valar is utterly broken. He has been alone against his wishes for years and years while others raised large families around him. Míriel is still in Mandos, might be there for a century more before she discovers she longs for her body after all; in his grief, he thinks that maybe she is never coming back. He remembers Indis' song, how the Valar made rules about and forbid him to listen to it, made rules set in stone about something as natural and changeable as love. How they told his only child to break himself for Light hoarded on an isle that was supposed to heal them of any pain but did not save Míriel from hers. They have broken the promise that led him here.
Finwë steps forward. "Why, O my people,’ he cries, "why should we longer serve these jealous gods, who cannot keep us, nor their own realm even, secure from their Enemy or indeed their own folly? And though he be now their foe, are not they and he of one kin? I would not dwell longer in the same land with my Enemy, my son’s slayers and the thieves of my happiness. Yet I am not the only valiant in this valiant people. And have ye not all lost your prince? And what else have ye not lost, cooped here in a narrow land between the jealous mountains and the harvestless Sea?"
They raise their swords.
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Ok calling it done because I can’t be bothered to work on it more htrhtrhtr
Dior was fun to figure out since it’s the first time drawing him! Celegorm as fun as usual to draw-
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