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Some more sketches from the last month!
Posting here by the request of @cilil - traditional joke about Melkor being maidenless. Also a design showcase.
Features also Measse (the OC, not the canon one it is a long story).
crysdrawsthings reblogged
Melkor began the delving and building of a vast fortress, deep under Earth, beneath dark mountains. That stronghold was named Utumno. The evil of Melkor and the blight of his hatred flowed out thence, and the Spring of Arda was marred. Green things fell sick and rotted, and rivers were choked with weeds and slime, and fens were made, rank and poisonous, the breeding place of flies.
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Baby Glaurung, featuring his dad, Melkor. Little Glaurung looks like a potato. But he will grow up to be long and strong and big and wreak havoc. Ink drawings.
This is all good and fair that none of the living has descended into the pits of Utumno, or has explored the darkness of the counsels of Melkor.
But I would personally love to know how does one wakes up one day and decides that yes, giant deviously smart magical reptile that can breath fire is a thing you are going to make today.
I need some of that creativity in my life, tbh
#rip to the wise but i am different#silmarillion#tolkien#melkor#morgoth#dragons#dragons are such top notch design damn it#melkor really galaxy brained with them#just imagine if he wasn't a complete bastard and flamethrower geckos could get Eru approved like dwarves#the world lost a lot#crysandthings#my ramblings
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Hypothetical stupid parody scenario.
So, I do assume Manwe’s job actually involves like. You know. Working a lot. I mean, Silm never goes into much detail about what he does as the Elder King and all, but governmental jobs are normally quite tough, especially if you give a damn or have people around who make sure that you do.
So it would be kind of a hilarious situation if, you know, Melkor just whines around enough about wanting to be the king and like. Sure. Here is this stuff, that stuff, other stuff, some more stuff, some visitors, some papers, those are due tomorrow, this today, but have fun, Tulkas is around to show you the ropes, bye.
Like. I bet from Melkor it can get a reaction of “okay, I don’t want that anymore, I wanted the cool title, not filling papers about elven divorces and listening to birds gossip. And what do mean Feanor is here to compain again and I absolutely can’t just kill him and hide the body???”, but for how long he would be going on sheer spite and pride?
What would Manwe do in the meanwhile? I have no clue. Hopefully just have some deserved self-care time together with Varda. My man needs a break.
As a possible alternative to Manwe doing the divine alternative to going on vacation and leaving phone at home, equally funny option is probably him just mildly annoying Melkor all the way through, because someone must be doing his job, right?
Kingship is hard, especially if you are a person rather unsuitable for a Boring Office Stuff
Especially if in the room directly across there is that jock, that you hate, chilling with cats, reading and and ruining your deep monologue moments with unwanted helpfulness regarding time tracking.
@outofangband - since you liked the whole idea, I am going to tag you in this little sketch c:
I love this so much. And yay!! At least he gets his cats! Though I headcanon him as having severe time blindness so I don’t know how helpful he’ll be in that regard! But he probably knows where Manwë keeps his schedules at least
I love Melkor’s claws and rings and the pattern on his sleeves and his expression!!
And I love Manwë’s desk! What does the cup say
I hope Manwë keeps an inventory of what’s on his desk.,, I don’t trust Melkor
Thank you so much for your kind words!
Yeah, he gets his cats for sure! I feel like Tulkas would have one of these very nice and relaxing places atmosphere-wise, so I can really easily see various critters just hanging out with him there. You know, like cats just find a nice place and chill there with you, for example, if it makes sense?
And yes, I would agree that Tulkas probably just knows pretty well how Manwe goes about his business and his day from being around and keeping company.
As for the cup I am not exactly sure. Probably some kind of inside joke kind of line. Maybe a bird-related pun? And he for sure keeps and inventory of things, very organised fella. I doubt there be a lot of personal items though, aside from “office supplies” kind of deal though. Aside from cup and maybe a favourite set of quills.
What I would have kept an eye out for is stamps and sigils of any sort...
crysdrawsthings reblogged
Hypothetical stupid parody scenario.
So, I do assume Manwe’s job actually involves like. You know. Working a lot. I mean, Silm never goes into much detail about what he does as the Elder King and all, but governmental jobs are normally quite tough, especially if you give a damn or have people around who make sure that you do.
So it would be kind of a hilarious situation if, you know, Melkor just whines around enough about wanting to be the king and like. Sure. Here is this stuff, that stuff, other stuff, some more stuff, some visitors, some papers, those are due tomorrow, this today, but have fun, Tulkas is around to show you the ropes, bye.
Like. I bet from Melkor it can get a reaction of “okay, I don’t want that anymore, I wanted the cool title, not filling papers about elven divorces and listening to birds gossip. And what do mean Feanor is here to compain again and I absolutely can’t just kill him and hide the body???”, but for how long he would be going on sheer spite and pride?
What would Manwe do in the meanwhile? I have no clue. Hopefully just have some deserved self-care time together with Varda. My man needs a break.
As a possible alternative to Manwe doing the divine alternative to going on vacation and leaving phone at home, equally funny option is probably him just mildly annoying Melkor all the way through, because someone must be doing his job, right?
Kingship is hard, especially if you are a person rather unsuitable for a Boring Office Stuff
Especially if in the room directly across there is that jock, that you hate, chilling with cats, reading and and ruining your deep monologue moments with unwanted helpfulness regarding time tracking.
@outofangband - since you liked the whole idea, I am going to tag you in this little sketch c:
#silmarillion#the silmarillion#melkor#morgoth#tulkas#valar#melkor's first day at the manwe's office#he already hates it#and he even made an effort to look presentable for the ocassion#so 75% less fangs scales eldrtich goodies and all these nice things#crysandthings#crysdrawsthings#wip#sketch#digital art
Anonymous asked:
I took it twice and got Ulmo and Tulkas so apparently we are Uquiz assigned enemies
-@outofangband
Out of curiosity, I retook the quiz taking different options in a few places, where I felt like both would apply.
I still got Uquiz assigned to be Melkor. This is just hilarious.
And means we are twice Uquiz assigned enemies too. Oh my.
As a disclaimer: yeah, I do usually feel bad for taking character from Silm and writing them in a way that makes OOC as very light way to put it.
Then I remember that in (if I recall details correctly) some older Silm canons Melkor stole horses from Orome and specifically black ones, which I assume required running around and catching those among the overall horse population.
And think that maybe this pettiest piece of an Ainu indeed has just about three braincells working at any given time.
Same old Silm also has Ulmo and his underwater car. And Luthien (I think just Tinuviel at the time):
- Teaching Beren how to be a proper cat
- Also including playfully tugging his cat tail, this is such an amusing detail okay
- This one part with her her "job interview"
#silmarillion#the silmarillion#tolkien#old silmarillion is wild#i think there was also that one moment where melkor is like promising to make extra cool material for the Lamps#and then like#makes them from ice#i bet the poor bastard forgot aboht deadlines while messing up with some swamps or whatever#and like#panic hodgepodges stuff at the last minute#anyway#melkor#morgoth#luthien#beren#crysandthings#my ramblings#this is getting late and i am getting more and more nonsensical
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Folks, I know I owe some of you an ask answer
And also wanted to do some sketching. And I swear I will get to everything this weekend.
Also hopefully including some out of context sketches from the Ncharr AU. Or maybe in context if anyone interested and can stand a long and convoluted rambling about how exactly Gili being in the wrong place at the wrong time broke the whole Silm plot.
Stupid AU Trivia moment.
This AU includes at least one instance of Morgoth being asked something about dragons and in response going full "I am SO glad you asked!" and pulling like 5282 slides worth of PowerPoint and hundreds of design document pages to explain in excruciating detail over 16+ hours.
Both PowerPoint and design document probably include his own drawings. He is bad at drawing. Dragons look like angry misshaped sausages.
Not really AU related more like some general Silm ramblings.
Some meta on how I imagine Melkor's incarnated body work is that it has a lot of details that are wrong enough to be considered eldritch uncanny valley and most of those details are like this due to either:
- Obvious need to be very scary, creepy, tall and terrible for accurate Dark Lord vibes and public image.
- The exact emotion every artist has after trying to make a good hand for an hour and it still looks like crap, so you give up and put the hand in the pockets. Or give your incarnated body digitigrade clawed feet.
#silmarillion#the silmarillion#melkor#morgoth#yes in my deaign of him he has digitigrade clawed feet#kinda draconic a bit idk#I also must make a decision for those#a very important one#do i give Middle-earth dragons toe beans#and based on this should he also have them beans#like#this is important#crysandthings#my ramblings
Hypothetical stupid parody scenario.
So, I do assume Manwe’s job actually involves like. You know. Working a lot. I mean, Silm never goes into much detail about what he does as the Elder King and all, but governmental jobs are normally quite tough, especially if you give a damn or have people around who make sure that you do.
So it would be kind of a hilarious situation if, you know, Melkor just whines around enough about wanting to be the king and like. Sure. Here is this stuff, that stuff, other stuff, some more stuff, some visitors, some papers, those are due tomorrow, this today, but have fun, Tulkas is around to show you the ropes, bye.
Like. I bet from Melkor it can get a reaction of “okay, I don’t want that anymore, I wanted the cool title, not filling papers about elven divorces and listening to birds gossip. And what do mean Feanor is here to compain again and I absolutely can’t just kill him and hide the body???”, but for how long he would be going on sheer spite and pride?
What would Manwe do in the meanwhile? I have no clue. Hopefully just have some deserved self-care time together with Varda. My man needs a break.
4. Favorite Valar/Valier?
Silmarillion Asks - feel free to send more!
Okay, this is a hard one, admittedly. I suppose I can say my definite top three in no particular order are Nienna, Manwe, and Varda.
Dishonorable mention to Melkor. Godspeed to this creepy eldritch bastard with a high likelihood of daddy issues. Also dragons.
Anonymous asked:
I've been thinking so much about your Húrin post and one aspect really stuck with me! The bit you mentioned about the spiders! Because I've always been reminded when reading CoH of the Scandinavian folktale of the troll or demon eye that splinters and those who get shards of it see through the eye of the troll or demon. And it warps and clouds their judgement. And especially the way Melian describes what Húrin endured sounded somewhat similar!
So I just was reminded of that!
Ooooooh! This seems like a perfect match, seriously!
And a better way to put in words what I had on my mind while writing that one post, to be fair.
Thank you for sharing the idea, I think it really does fit. I wonder if in Hurin case this kind of clouded judgement might have been even bigger part of curse and torture, compared to any sort of physical sight thing.
As in, putting accent and focus on events in the worst possible way for him and all, if it makes sense? I am admittedly not that great with putting ideas to words, my bad, hahaha
On one hand I really love and respect Tolkien's world an canon.
But on the other hand my preferred type of Silmarillion content to consume would be something along the lines of "Luthien and Melkor and maybe Huan having one single cooking-related braincell between them try to cook premade dumplings. Beren is seen absentmindedly eating perfectly fine salad in the background. Sauron is crying in the corner because his forge is used instead of kitchen. Grond is somehow crucial to the process of cooking".
I do not know what it says about me. I do however know that I would unlikely find this kind of content anywhere in fandom. Which is kind of a shame.
Little thing I am working on these days.
Still unsure on Manwe design, to be honest, but I will figure this out on the way, I suppose.
#silmarillion#the silmarillion#jrrt#melkor#morgoth#manwe#valar#wip#crysandthings#crysdrawsthings#yes melkor will start being genuinely nice before wearing his shirts properly i guess#he made this fana to have sick abs and now this is everyones else problem#manwe's spear thingy is his sapphire sceptre thing from canon#now comes as a sapphire spear#very effective against bothersome brothers#against bothersome elves probably too#also yes they look a lot alike#save for style and color choices#not featured on picture:#grond#and worrying amount of daggers in manwe's sleeves
I know that it has nothing to do with it, because JRRT was a serious author and I am not. But.
But Morgoth's curse he put on Hurin is like. Extremely interesting to me, because like. Okay.
"With my eyes thou shalt see, and with my ears thou shalt hear", but what does it practically means? How does it work?
Does it simply means that Hurin is sitting there with 24/7 broadcast of Turin's Life of Unfortunate Events? Would Morgoth also see just that all that time?
Does it means that Hurin also gets picture somehow warped by Morgoth's perception? Would it warp every tinsy-winsy spider Turin came across in his life into a terrifying monstrosity due to one certain vala experience with Ungoliant?
Does it also affect Hurin physical perception in some way? Do valar see the same colours even? Is Morgoth just a very angry meme shrimp, that sees 17 basic colours or something? Would Hurin assume that maybe Morgoth is constantly high on something due to this?
Does this thing glitches at times and provides Hurin with questionably entertaining peek into Morgoth's exciting life of sitting on uncomfortable chair and looking grim?
There is a lot of questions here, I mean.