im clear headed billy

"Don't worry

"Well, that's just like them. And I suppose they are skulking outside, and your job is to do all the dangerous work and get what you can when I'm not looking - for them? And you will get a fair share? Don't you believe it! If you get off alive, you will be lucky."

(...)

That is the effect that dragon-talk has on the inexperienced. Bilbo of course ought to have been on his guard; but Smaug had rather an overwhelming personality.

Finrod and Galadriel at a summer festival in honor of Laurelin during the Years of the Trees for an art trade with @thelien-art ♡

The White Lady

“Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

A painting study of Éowyn! Photo reference below the cut:

hope lives on.