New and Updated Artwork

Helcaraxë by Anérea
Crossing the Grinding Ice of the Helcaraxë

The followers of Fingolfin Nolofinwë spent years (or decades, depending on which version of Tolkien's maths you subscribe to) on the treacherous crossing of the grinding ice between Aman and Middle-Earth.

Major Characters: Elenwë, Elves, Fingolfin, Fingon, Finrod Felagund, Idril, Noldor, Turgon
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Angrod - Lord of Dorthonion by Gabriel
Angrod Finarfinion and all the images that represent his life in Dorthonion.

This artwork is a depiction of Angrod, son of Finarfin, and all that represents his life in Dorthonion. It is also a companion piece to a story I recently uploaded, 'Star In The Darkness.'

Major Characters: Historical Character(s), Angrod
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Storm Season by Independence1776
Photo collage with six photos: a wet wolfhound, a swing on a beach with dark clouds in the background, a barred window, an open doorway leading onto a stone patio, a lit hurricane lantern placed on rocks on a beach, and several overlapping hands.

My first artwork for TRSB 2022. Huan washes ashore in Fourth Age Harad, where Maglor has been living for decades.

Major Characters: Original Character(s), Huan, Maglor
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Nerdanel, after... by Anérea
Nerdanel stood on the shore of Aman, watching the flamelight that rose in the East and, as a wife and mother, couldn't help but wonder where she went wrong.

Nerdanel stood on the shore of Aman, watching the flamelight that rose in the East and, as a wife and mother, couldn't help but wonder where she went wrong.

Major Characters: Nerdanel
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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The Crafting of Galadriel’s Mirror by Anérea
Mélamírë The Master Smith

Portrait of Mélamírë, Master Smith of the Gwaith-i-Mírdain, crafting Galadriel’s Mirror.

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s)
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Elven Nature by Anérea
Elven Nature

An elf of the Lembi, those that lingered under the starlight in Middle Earth, shunning the summons of the Valar to journey to Aman. (Later called Avvari by the Eldar.)

Major Characters: Avari, Elves
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Lúcëmetta (Enchantment's End) by Anérea
Melian and Thingol in Nan Elmoth

Melian and Thingol awake from their enchantment in Nan Elmoth.

Major Characters: Elu Thingol, Elves, Melian
Major Relationships: Melian/Thingol
Challenge: Arda on Ice
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Prehistory of the Eldar by Lyra
A watercolour painting of a mammoth hunt in a dark forest, lit only by the torches of the Vanyarin hunters. The hunters, pale-haired Elves, are wearing simple undyed clothing. They are armed with spears. Some are confronting the mammoth, which is just breaking through the coverings of a pit trap, while others are driving it from behind or jumping from hiding in the trees. The mammoth has raised its trunk in agitation.

A collection of illustrations about Elves in their pre-Aman days.

Major Characters: Elves, Oromë
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: B2MeM 2016, Love Actually
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Gladden Fields by Himring
Photo of yellow iris, water and rain drops, with image of yellow water lilies in bottom left corne, titled "Gladden Fields" in top right corner

Photo of yellow iris with an inset photo of yellow water lilies.

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Glorfindel by owly
A portrait of Glorfindel Renaissance style. He's wearing a light blue doublet with golden embroidery and a red cloak held together with a gold brooch in the shape of a celandine.

Lord Nightlight in all his shiny glory. I went for Holbein/Renaissance vibes and I think that came out okay. Painted on a Huion tablet in MyPaint.

Major Characters: Glorfindel
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Fair Ithil by Himring
White hazy moon among light clouds in black night sky. Caption in white in bottom right corner.

Photo of moon in the night sky with surrounding clouds, captioned “Fair Ithil".

Major Characters: Tilion
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Holiday Party
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Arda on Ice stamp art by Lyra
A watercolour painting of an elf with shoulder-length blond hair, gripping his back foot that he has lifted above his head in a Beillmann spin. He is wearing a white body suit decorated with golden swirls. In the background, three spotlights invoke the Silmarils.

You've heard of Lay of Leithian, the rock opera - now get ready for Lay of Leithian, the ice skating show. Well, not really. But when we were setting up the challenges for 2022, I couldn't help envisioning characters from the Lay of Leithian as skaters for the Arda on Ice challenge.

Major Characters: Beren, Finrod Felagund, Lúthien Tinúviel, Orcs, Thuringwethil
Major Relationships: Beren/Luthien
Challenge: Arda on Ice
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Insomnia by Sublime Penguin
Fingolfin sleeps, Anairë is awake.

Anairës nightly vigil before Ñolofinwë leaves, illustration for Till Morning Breaks by Raiyana

Major Characters: Anairë, Fingolfin
Major Relationships: Anairë/Fingolfin
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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The Forge by Sublime Penguin
Female blacksmith Gereth working. Open forge in the background.

Gereth at her forge.

As far as I know, there's no lore regarding elves and tattoos. I love the idea that they might have had them, but with special ink that made them appear differently, or not at all, depending on circumstances like day, mood, and words spoken.

Notes:

Done for the Worldbuilding Exchange 2018, for Lunarium and heavily inspired by their works featuring Gereth

Major Characters: Gereth
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Nienna's House by Independence1776
Hand-drawn floorplan of a house. The left side is deliberately sketchy in pencil due to the shifting layout of the house. The right side is solid with colored shapes within the rooms to indicate furnishings. The compass rose has West at the top to follow Elven custom.

Floorplan of Nienna's house.

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Calm and Storm by Independence1776
Moodboard arranged in a plus shape. The four corners of the image are colored dark red with the quotes "Thy sent messages to the Havens of friendship and yet of stern demand" and "And so there came to pass the last and cruellest of the slayings of Elf by Elf." The five images, from top to bottom: river with marsh on a sunny day, sword held in hand with sun glinting off blade, letter with a quill pen and wax seal, albatross flying over water, and water colored red by a sunset.

The Third Kinslaying: the calm before the storm and the aftereffects.

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Opposites Attract
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Mature Themes

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Silmarillion as Space Opera by Independence1776
Moodboard: man holding tube of white light, scifi cityscape, mountains with two moons hanging above, white triangular-shaped corridor, woman holding a blue lightsaber with a white wolf at her side, spaceship entering wormhole

Evil Empire! Scrappy Rebel groups that have a similar overall goal and different ideas of the best way to achieve it! Different Elven cultures having unique styles of spaceships! Laser swords! Elven magic!

Maglor and his wife Calien (pictured) are on a scouting mission when they learn information that will lead them deep into the heart of Morgoth’s Empire: to the capital planet of Angband itself. They team up with Beren and Lúthien for the mission despite their groups’ differences.

Major Characters: Unnamed Female Canon Character(s), Maglor
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Off on an Adventure by Independence1776
Moodboard: a white man with wrist in a chain, camels in the near distance, map with compass and coins on top of it, smiling black woman, rain curtain in the distance across a plain

A Hobbit lass off on an adventure in the East stumbles across a captive Maglor. Further adventures ensue. 

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Maglor
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Mature Themes

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This is how we defend ourselves by Independence1776
Moodboard pictures, clockwise from upper left: person with a harp, the Gamgee family from the end of RotK, Gandalf and Bilbo smoking, Eowyn facing the Witch-king, and the "There and Back Again" screenshot from RotK. Text reads: "This is how we defend ourselves: sword and shield, song and story, family and friends."

A graphic of ways Tolkien characters defend themselves, both literally and metaphorically: sword and shield, song and story, family and friends.

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Maglor Meets Roverandom by Independence1776
Mooodboard/collage with images of a black-and-white dog, ruins overrun with greenery, train bridge, sparkler, a male person, the northern lights, and a bunch of miles-to-city signs. Three quotes. Roverandom: "Indeed Roverandom grew to be very wise, and had an immense local reputation, and had all sorts of other adventures." Silmarillion: "And thereafter he wandered ever upon the shores singing in pain and regret." LotR: "Not all those who wander are lost."

Maglor meets Roverandom and goes on an adventure.

Major Characters: Other Fictional Character(s), Maglor
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Fitting, In A Way by Anérea
Illustration of Helevorn in elf form reaching up through the lake

Helevorn stirs from her repose.

Major Characters: Unnamed Female Canon Character(s), Caranthir
Major Relationships: Caranthir/Unnamed Canon Character
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Winds of the Western Shore by Anérea
Illustration of Minyelmë in Beyond the Western Shore

Minyelmë discovers the far Western shore of Aman.

Major Characters: Original Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Elves
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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