SPEAK, FRIEND AND ENTER

《The Hunt》

Lady Sauron!

Commission for @king-feanor-the-noldo. Again, thank you so much <3 This really was something different for me to draw, but doing different things is very important for me since I feel like I’m always doing the same stuff. Plus, I had lots of fun imagining a female Sauron!

Made with Krita 4.3.0 on the XP-Pen Artist 12.

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30. “You don’t see me,” Tyelperinquar whispered. “It’s like you forget I’m here. It scares me, Annatar—what if one day you go into one of those trances and you never come back?”

Mairon smiled softly. Poor, poor Tyelpë—if only he knew that such leaves of absence were the only thing that kept him grounded, kept him strong enough to continue wearing this form. It was in those trances that he drew closer to the Discord, his Master’s will, still stretching out from the Void. Without those reminders of who he really was, what he was really here for, Mairon might forget himself entirely, lose himself in the identity of Annatar.

“I will always come back,” he assured Tyelpë. And then, because a half-truth would serve as a better explanation than an outright lie: “I am part of the Song, my love, even more than you are. If I wish to remain here, with you, I need to feel the Music at times, to reinvigorate myself. Otherwise I would...fade away.”

Tyelpë clung tighter to him. The poor elf was so needy, it was almost charming. “Please don’t,” he murmured. “Just—let me know when you need to do that, alright? So I can help you, make you comfortable. You almost fell over this morning—imagine if it came over you while you were in the forge!”

Mairon had better self-control than that, but Tyelpë didn’t need to know that. Not when he used his trances as an excuse to get out of arguments, and his defense was Oh, darling, I’m so sorry, I don’t know what came over me, it was so sudden...

Nazgûl 7 ( lotr )

Another Tolkien piece 

wanted to share this series of illustrations for LOTR book covers that I did for a class assignment. isn’t supposed to be movie canon, although my version of sam looks suspiciously like sean astin 

I focused specifically on Sam and Frodo because their relationship is essentially my favorite thing about the trilogy <3