Oh my god, I just...this is so awkward and so incredibly Finrod. I love it.

I love it. It is fabulous. I really wish I could draw! I would illustrate it. What fun that would be. Although, actually, it might be funnier to imagine the illustrations that to actually see them.

I adore Finrod and his geekishness anyway. This sounds like him in my head.

Actually, I just remembered that Pandemonium has an illustration in my biography of Finrod here that almost fits one of the possible illustrations: http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/reference/characterofthemonth/finrod.php Scroll down until you get to the cartoon.

I love it!

And I almost feel I've seen the drawing of Maedhros with his tambourine!

Thank you!

I don't think I'll ever get over the image of Maedhros and his tambourine. 

This was just fantastic!  Your Finrod is both unintentionally hilarious and charming! His awkwardness (and complete obliviousness to said awkwardness) makes it even more endearing. I am imagining all of his sketches. And giggling.

Recapping from the SV site, but it bears repeating... :^)

Sketches from Beleriand is hilarious, but I would expect no less from you, tehta.  Each of Finrod's parenthetical asides on his enclosed sketches (or list) are increasingly hootworthy, and you've captured his scholarly (and patronizing - although a well-intentioned kind of patronizing) voice perfectly.  A great andvery entertaining read!  

And this...

"Imagine the scene: off in the distance, the mountains rolled towards me, softened by the distance and shaded an impossible indigo. Meanwhile, beside me, every blade of grass, every flower-petal, every leaf on every tree stood out in the still, glowing air, sharp and separate, as if masterfully wrought from a ductile metal. (Not from stone, though: even if I found some in the right blue-green shade, I could never carve it so finely.) 

(I confess I am quite pleased with the descriptive powers displayed above, but in case they have failed me, I am enclosing a few watercolours. I believe the third is the best.)"

AH HAHAHAHA!  That was the first bit that sent me well and truly over the edge.

And you're right:  Finrod's sketch would have been FAR more anatomically correct than my badly drawn cartoon. :^D

This is so wonderful! I love eager, slightly clueless Finrod and his inquisitiveness. I like to imagine his letters somehow survived the fall of Nargothrond and found their way to Amarie eventually… I can see her much later showing the sketches around at family gatherings like other people do with baby photographs, a blushing Finrod in the corner trying to ignore them all ;-)