Elves assmeble!

and who was it that taught Glaurung such foul wit 🤔

I wanted to make a Legolas illustration for forever, so for my first one I went more classic style, and added his horsie on the background.

Also I wanted to announce that I have opened a patreon, I have been thinking for a while to open one and the times have come. I am excited of what I could create with more freedom (nsfw will come very soon 👀)

Ungoliant

Gandalf: *hurriedly glances at Thranduil. the king of Mirkwood’s eyes shine with curiosity and greed, but not recognition, nor the terrible lust that overtook Feanor and his sons. right, right, he was never in Thingol’s court while the jewel that Luthien and Beren took was there. we’re good. we’re good for now*

Gandalf: [mental image of a goddam Silmaril in hobbit hands, labelled “thisfuckingrockagain.jpg”]

Galadriel, who watched 95% of her family slaughter everyone within 100 miles for several thousand years over these things, including each other and themselves: no.

Elrond, who was very nearly one of those people slaughtered, and did watch most of his town be killed before he and his twin were kidnapped for a while: Absolutely Fucking Not.

Gandalf: Apparently fucking yes. The legendary Arkenstone-

Galadriel: You’ve got to be kidding me.

Elrond: Thorin Oakenshield has a Silmaril right now?

Gandalf: No, no.

Gandalf: Bilbo stole it.

Elrond: *wordless sputtering*

Gandalf: @Galadriel [information packet: BilboBagginsoftheShire.pdf]

Galadriel: Oh yes, Belladonna’s boy, you were telling me about him last winter. 

Galadriel: Btw, orc+warg army probably coming your way. Spotted it in the mirror last night. Thank goodness we dealt with Dol Goldur at least, huh?

Gandalf: [thisfuckingrockagain.jpg]

Gandalf: [oncomingorcwargarmy.jpg]

The Arkenstone might be, of course, a Silmaril, probably Maedhros’ since Maedhros threw himself in a volcano with it, and there’s reason to believe that the Silmaril would have survived the ordeal (since it was imbued with the light of the trees and the craftsmanship of Feänor, after all).

Ahh! thank you, thank you for such a nice compliment, yes! from time to time I think about Finrod and Beor, you know Finrod is so easy to love :,) and even more so if it's an elf/human tragedy, I just think about Finrod seeing how all his human friends leave so quickly and it never stops hurting (sorry, I'm going to cry a bit here)…

yes I also thought about Beorn that is not the same as Beor ha-ha

The Constellations of northern Arda - an autumn sky above Thangorodrim

The constellations of Arda - a night sky made up of the constellations of Tolkien's Legendarium (and some added ones (lyra, swan, dragon) that seemed to fit thematically) overlaid over an autumnal sky of our northern hemisphere. (somewhat expanded to get all of them in one view (e.g. do not @ me about orion or corona borealis ;) )

Also, for the Tolkien astronomy nerds(TM), Anarríma (which we don't have any information on besides the name) is probably meant to be an adaptation of pegasus. So the actual depiction is completely made up by me.

I ultimately landed on the idea of a giant spider (as the name translates to something like the edge/border of light/the sun) The spider not only fits well with the long limbs of the pegasus but Ungoliant's (and her descendants') stories do always play out in that edge of light and the sun, always desiring, craving and devouring it but also shying away from it. /rant over