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"And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise." - The Return of the King
Major Characters: No major characters listed
A wolf, a spider, a bat, a dragon... what do they have in common?
Major Characters: Draugluin, Glaurung, Thuringwethil, Ungoliant
Tar-Míriel, traditional media, A5, 2020.
Major Characters: Tar-Míriel
After living for hundreds, never mind thousands, of years by the sea there's no way that Círdan wasn't a) as brown as a berry, and b) didn't invent surfing.
Major Characters: Círdan, Elves, Falathrim
Photograph of a tree in autumn (lightly edited) with two lines of accompanying text.
Originally submitted (without the title) for the Manwe's Mailbag challenge for a postcard prompt.
Major Characters: No major characters listed
“Under her song the saplings grew and became fair and tall, and came to flower; and thus there awoke in the world the Two Trees of Valinor. Of all things which Yavanna made they have the most renown, and about their fate all the tales of the Elder Days are woven.”
~ The Silmarillion, “Of The Beginning of Days”
Major Characters: No major characters listed
Tolkenien Mathematics.
Major Characters: J.R.R. Tolkien
Varda experiments with undoing just a wee bit of history...
Major Characters: Varda
After capturing Finrod and his companions, Gorthaur attempts to discover their identities...
Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Sauron
Art created for the related prompts for the 30-Day Character Study Challenge.
Major Characters: No major characters listed
"Then [Varda] began a great labor, greatest of all the works of the Valar since their coming into Arda. She took the silver dews from the vats of Telperion, and therewith she made new stars and brighter against the coming of the Firstborn ... And high in the north as a challenge to Melkor she set the crown of seven mighty stars to swing, Valacirca, the Sickle of the Valar and sign of doom." - The Silmarillion, "Of the Coming of the Elves"
Major Characters: No major characters listed
Quick & silly sketches from an Instadrabbling/Instadrawbling session...
Major Characters: Caranthir
Beleg and Túrin at Dor-Cúarthol, protecting the land together. Drawn in the style of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
Major Characters: Beleg, Túrin
Two figures under autumn/winter mallorn trees in the golden wood of Lothlórien.
Major Characters: Celeborn, Celebrían, Galadriel
My contribution to the Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang artwork in an Ancient Egyptian style
Major Characters: Beren, Lúthien Tinúviel, MelkorThen Beren and Lúthien ... came to the seat of Morgoth in his nethermost hall that was upheld by horror, lit by fire, and filled with weapons of death and torment. There Beren slunk in wolf's form beneath his throne; but Lúthien was stripped of her disguise by the will of Morgoth, and he bent his gaze upon her.
The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
My second artwork for TRSB 2022. Elrond is secretly visiting Númenor during the reign of Ar-Pharazôn, years after Sauron’s capture, and is captured himself.
Major Characters: Elrond, Sauron, Tar-Míriel
Inspired by Surfacing, Into Light by Maggie Honeybite featuring Keiliss' Erestor and Gil-galad from Answers in the Dark, the sequel to Burning Bright: The Road.
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Music: Come Back to Us · Thomas Newman
Major Characters: Erestor, Gil-galad
A moodboard showing the path of the survivors of Gondolin.
Major Characters: No major characters listed