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Mellon

@thedaughterofkings / thedaughterofkings.tumblr.com

Lessa, She/Her This is one big mess of fandoms, with Merlin and Teen Wolf being the main fandoms right now. My fics can be found here.
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shadowbindery

My rebinding of The Hobbit, the illustrated version. This book came out lovely. It's one of the few examples I didn't use hand marbled paper but Chiyogami paper (the decorative tree paper) instead. It was the right call. The rest is green goatskin with some metal furniture (decorative pieces on the cover). And of course the gold tooling on the cover and spine are all hand done.

#ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh#oh this is gorgeousssssssssssss#I have a mighty mighty need#the hobbit#bookbinding#Fanart#hobbit Fanart#Fancrafts
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inimeitiel
The Battle of the five Armies countdown - day 21 of 30

Bonus: 

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This thing from 2014 is my legacy. It’s got an insane number of notes and it still gets reblogs and likes everyday. I see people tagging it as #aclassic and I’ve met people in real life showing it to me not knowing I did it.

I was looking at it and realised that today, after 10 years I’d have done it the other way round.

I haven’t been in the Tolkien fandom for literally all of these 10 years so I don’t know if it’s been done already but here’s my updated version.

It’s…much funnier to me now lmao

#I love them both#giggles madly#legolas greenleaf#thranduil#the hobbit#not quite#but closest#Fanart#hobbit Fanart
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Starlight and Sunrise, by Sacrificethemtothesquid

The book finally arrived in the post so I can post about it! This is Starlight and Sunrise by @sacrificethemtothesquid​, who is a dear friend - all the reason I needed to really go ham on the design and decoration. The fics are The Hobbit fandom, Tauriel/Kili, so I played with Dwarven and Elven visuals and landed on these Dwarven feeling frames.

The cover is Duo bookcloth in Dusk with silver coloured foil iron-on frames & titles, cut on my Cricut. The edge decoration was done with the masking marker I bought for aquarel painting, and fountain pen ink (don’t be like me, use acryllic ink instead - fountain pen ink is not remotely waterproof).

Unfortunately the board grain wasn’t quite right and I did not manage to balance the pull correctly, so they’re not completely properly flat. One lives and learns.

#yells in awe#these are SO GORGEOUS#the edge painting!!!#all the blue!!!#and glitter and ahhhh#and that title page is also to die for#gorgeousssss#bookbinding#ficbinding#the hobbit#Fanart#hobbit Fanart#queuety pie
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owlbabeart

Dragon Age inspired tarot cards for These Two

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transformativeworks

[image description: four drawings, two of the same two versions each. The second two has rounded edges and a description at the bottom. The first image shows Thorin Oakshield of The hobbit from his profile. He is holding up a key and the mountain is behind the key. The key seems to emit a golden halo. His description says: “King of Coins”. The second drawing shows Thandruil. He is also shown from profile but from the opposite one. He holds a sword in his hand, with the left hand holding up the hilt and the right caressing the blade.The entire picture appears to be in shades of blue with a single silver star or snowflake on his robe, white hair and more silvery shades at the bottom of the sky. His crown is a purplish red colour. His description says: “King of Swords.” end of description]

#oohhhh#these are gorgeous#the hobbit#Fanart#hobbit Fanart#Thorin Oakenshield#Thranduil
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hewalksinstarlight

this isn’t a fucking competition, bard.

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hsavinien

I…I recognize the joke, but these are totally different kinds of bows, each with its own benefits and suited to its user. 

Bard’s using a longbow. 

  • Longbows are awesome and take a fuckton of regular practice to use, because the muscle strain required to be a longbowman(/woman) actually deforms the arms and back of the user. 
  • “Bard the Bowman” is still known by that sobriquet even though he’s low status, his family’s life and profession changed when the dragon attacked.  Why would he be called that, if not that he’s still in regular practice and people see him using the thing over and over and over? 
  • Longbows are less-damaged by damp than composites, being made of once single piece of wood rather than layers of material, which is handy if one lives in the middle of a freaking lake.
  • The longbow changed the face of warfare in real life, esp. for England.  They’re effective killing machines over long distance, even against armored enemies. 
  • Conclusion: Bard’s a tank-muscled distance shot used to fighting with good sightlines.

Legolas and Tauriel use recurve bows, albeit in different styles.

  • Legolas’ looks like a Turkish bow, though I don’t recall seeing him use a thumb draw (which is not mandatory if you’ve got super strong elf-fingers, I guess).
  • Tauriel’s looks to be a Scythian composite bow by the shape.
  • Composite recurve bows are much easier to use in confined spaces and at odd angles. 
  • They have been historically used by folks who specialize in archer tricks like multiple arrow shots (a thing we have seen Legolas do). 
  • Because of the curves, composites pack heavy draw weight (the factor that determines with what force, i.e. how fast and far, the arrow will travel) into limited space.
  • Short draw (the distance you have to pull back the arrow to shoot it) means a quicker release time and quicker time to get your next arrow on the string.
  • Legolas and Tauriel fight in a forest, not know for long sight lines or easy travel, nor for enemies who can be seen coming.  They need weapons that won’t be getting caught on a bush at an inopportune time. Likewise, you see fewer spears and longswords among the elves of the Greenwood.
  • Conclusion: Legolas and Tauriel are guerrilla fighters from a heavily-forested territory and their weapons reflect that.

Kili also uses a composite recurve bow.

  • For practical purposes, note that Kili has significantly shorter arms than any of the other archers here mentioned. Long draws, like on Bard’s longbow, are not feasible and that means he’s not going to get the power he is capable of producing.
  • Dwarves are fucking strong, all right?  That wee little bow looks very like the Mongolian horse-bow in size and shape that my friend used with a draw weight of 55 lbs.  (I’m not a weakling and I can draw 35 for a decent length of time when in practice).  Kili’s could easily be upwards of 75-100 lbs.
  • Kili’s a hunter.  Likely, his main concern with a bow (when not following his uncle on an inadvisable quest) is the procurement of dinner for his family.  To do that with a bow you need to be very quiet or very quick on the draw.  Dwarves are not known for being super-quiet, though I believe I remember something about Fili and Kili being better at that than is typical.
  • Anything that can kill a deer can probably kill a person (or an orc).  That little horse-bow can easily kill or maim.
  • Conclusion: Kili is a hunter. He uses a bow that allows for the production of a lot of power at short notice and is suited to his size and strength.

Bigger is not always most effective.  Your medieval weaponry rant has concluded for the day, unless someone wants to talk to me about swords.

#archery#the hobbit#hobbit Fanart#Fanart
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hattedhedgehog

Kíli can’t tell elf genders apart, he just finds everyone really pretty.

(I headcanon that dwarves express their gender with braids, as it’s simple but effective and can be changed as the individual sees fit. As elves don’t have a similar system, younger Dwarves find it difficult to address elves with proper pronouns, because “what do you mean we have to guess based on their features? Assume based on stereotypical traits, how impolite!”)

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Headcanon accepted

#giggles madly#legolas' face really makes this#the hobbit#Fanart#hobbit Fanart
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