#i sat down to do these drawings yesterday so i could put this reply into the queue and i was like

Anonymous asked:

OK I've been meaning to ask this for a while: why 'forest pennies' as a Túrin + Beleg tag? What do pennies have to do with them?

Okay so one time in a conversation I called Túrin a "forest puppy" because Beleg finding him in the woods and bringing him to one of the marchwarden lodges reminded me of someone finding a stray dog and bringing it home so they can decide whether they’re going to keep it or not. This led to me calling both of them forest puppies for a few months. But then one day my friend sent me a variation of that “finally I can keep these pennies to myself” meme, commenting that I’m the voiceover, Beleg and Túrin are the pennies, and the “I smell pennies” cryptid is the ship-happy people in the fandom. So “forest puppies” and “I smell pennies” got merged together into “forest pennies”. Thanks for asking about it, actually...I was wondering if anyone was confused by that tag and now I’ve had an excuse to explain it. Here are some forest pennies getting patched up after a rough day of orc-hunting.

(By the way, for those who might not know why I personally don’t subscribe to the general lax view of fandom shipping, there’s another paragraph under the cut so that those who want to read it can and those who don’t want to read it don’t have to see it.)

#beleg #túrin #the man the myth the legends #three shinies #everyone deserved better except mîm #don't mind me #yo somebody talked to me #heck yeah bromance #forest pennies #/end classification tags #one of the other conveniences of using ''pennies'' is that it is something that i use ONLY for these two characters #but it can be modified for many of my aus #sea pennies #space pennies #western pennies #but if i used puppies then we might wonder if i was referring to some other characters #since that's a more common word #anyway yeah #i sat down to do these drawings yesterday so i could put this reply into the queue and i was like #''oh it's beleg and túrin this is going to be so quick''#it was not quick #the first drawing took more than an hour beginning to end #rip me #at least the second one didn't take that long #(to be fair though there IS some difference in the amount of detail between the two)#and i'm at least 50% happy with how they turned out so that's cool