Howling into the Void

My Taurid (Tauriel/Sigrid) submission for hobbitreversebang! I’m pretty happy with how it turned out and I’m so excited to have been able to do some serious Taurid art and to get a lovely writer to write a fic for it! TuT 

Take Me Away to Some Place Real by plinys

Adjusting to her new found princess-hood is not easy, but the burdened is lessened by the presence of Tauriel.

Tauriel and Sigrid, by Lizzie.

I apologise it that isn’t your cup of tea, but I ship Sigriel quite much and cannot imagine it otherwise.

Maglor, inspired by art I saw last time I was in Uzbekistan and featuring a pattern created by @peasant-player. Details under the cut

I saw someone (I’ve forgotten who!) post a couple months ago, asking if it’s ever established in canon whether Mairon ever found out it was Finrod in Tol-in-Gaurhoth. Short answer, after perusing the relevant text: no. 

My personal interpretation, for my own amusement: I think he’d figure out Beren, since his run-in with Luthien and Huan happened shortly afterwards, but had a complete Kronk moment with Finrod, years down the line. Like, you know when you’re an expert in a subject and some things totally fly under your radar, because it doesn’t occur to you that anyone would do anything that dumb? I think that, being a master of deception, he wouldn’t realize what Nereb and Dungalef stood for, not for literal ages, because who uses their real names just backwards/anagrammed when infiltrating an enemy stronghold (and arguably the most dangerous stronghold, second only to Angband), that’s just so stupid so stupid it actually worked XD 

(In his defense, there was a lot going on in the First Age. A Lot.)

But. 

You will feel tempted by FOMO, you will feel bullied by Discord. You will be peer pressured to the ends of the earth. Do not do it. Do not allow them full access to you, and do not let them normalize this utter horseshit. We deserve anon spaces. We deserve the internet, it's ours.

Like this shit is TERRIFYING.

ELROS TAR-MINYATUR & ELROND PEREDHEL

You can probably tell how much fun I had with this commission, ie Elrond and Elros as described and commissioned by the wonderful @mnimeresponding, who back in December requested them depicted as identical twins at different ages, some point early in the Second Age, where Elros has aged quite far ahead. And I was incredibly compelled by that idea and wanted to do a bright, smiling ‘courtly’ portrait representing a circumstance, ie identical twins where one has aged and one is frozen in time, that is a tragic concept both in real life and in this context. Endurance! The long defeat! Ever onwards at all cost! Ever onwards, but at what cost!?

It was such an interesting challenge to work on and tested my portraiture skills, as showing ‘identicality’ represented across the aesthetics of two diverging ‘races’ and societies, not to mention ages… More design notes re jewelry styles under the cut if you’re keen, or you can just enjoy the art (and thank @mnimeresponding for the excellent concept)!

GALLERY AND COMMISSIONS | KOFI

and exomis:

Since we are here might as well share the dhoti and the lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Lungi

https://www.wikihow.com/Wear-a-Pancha-Kachcham?amp=1

It’s only men in the photos but really anyone can wear them. I am wearing a lungi right now.