ruins of the past

Basking In Her Greatness

Manwë & Varda (Tolkien universe)

A widdle present for my good friend @cilil who is a firm believer in huge, space momma, Varda. And big on pushing the dom!Varda supremacy hehe. Live your dreams gurl 😌 let this art lead you into more filthy sin (and cutenss too, lets not forget).

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Open for Commissions

Art by Ami Thompson

“Turn your face from the green world, and look where all seems barren and cold!” said Gandalf.

Aragorn finds the sapling of the white tree.

merry talks to kids in ithilien like ‘and remember: you’re NEVER too small to fight an unspeakable ancient eldritch horror’ and eowyn says ‘he’s right you’re not’ and faramir’s like PLEASE don’t

merry, a freakishly tall hobbit, says the same to anyone in the shire who will listen and they’re all like ‘that doesn’t sound right but i don’t know enough about unspeakable ancient eldritch horrors to dispute it’

several small hobbit children come to the conclusion that the most unspeakable ancient eldritch horror around is that really big newt that lives in the pond by the Party Field and hijinks ensue

baby hobbit, fumbling with a newt: this is JUST like when mr merry fought the witch king

merry: correct! the witch king of angmar was naught but a wriggling newt unto mine brave and heroic eye!

sam: i wasn’t there but i can guarantee that’s not how it happened

Egalmoth & Ecthelion

Super quick sketches to take a break from painting :>

my first @tolkienrsb entry for 2022! 👀

Celegorm and Aredhel

Éowyn ⚔️💛

The color symbolism behind standard second age depictions of major first age families demands that Finarfin’s kids be portrayed in yellow, in contrast to Fingolfin’s blue, Feanor’s red, and Thingol’s assortment of greens and dusky purples. Galadriel can’t bring herself to tell the bright eyed young illuminators that her brothers looked good in every color and as a result liked to wear them all at once.

On the other end of the color wheel, the Forces of Evil were mostly represented in orange and black. This was a partial fictionalization— Angband was too chaotic to have a coherent aesthetic other than “Fuck the Valar” and regularly mixed industrial pollution punk with orccore, Frankenstein chic, vulture culture, and an upsetting combo of ice and fire demons. Certainly nothing like the smooth pumpkin satin and black velvet stage outfits used in productions of the Leithian.

These second age portrayals became a weird self-fulfilling prophecy however when one Annatar saw them and got inspired to Steal That Look. New age, new fashion. It’s all black horses from here out.

Actors in Eregion, workshopping the very camp “Operetta of Gorlim” (in which Gorlim must be shirtless and Sauron has an evil cat minion): “Is it a bit much? The all white cake makeup and four foot long jagged swords for the wraiths… are we going too far?”

Their test audience, Actual Sauron: “No, I love it. Add black capes and more leather.”

You said you’d bind yourself to me, forsaking the immortal life of your people.

A hanfu style Fingon for @rdvelveteu on twitter !

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) dir. Peter Jackson

Bilbo: wait I get it now. The dragon is a metaphor for greed and power. We need to ‘defeat’ it by being humble when we get the treasure.

Thorin: Bilbo, for the last time, it’s a real dragon and it has my gold

fëanorian folk song genres

Day 2: Elves, Númenóreans, Gondolin, Silmarils, Balrogs, Loss.

@arwenindomiel​

Artanis, veiled in gold