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Merry Brandybuck:) He's kinda suspicious of this "Strider" fellow...
Inspired by THIS lovely fic:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Hey'alllllllllllll @figbythistle is my art blog now! I'll probably post the art I've already put on this blog over there to keep things tidy, follow there for more arts stuff and Tolkien content!!!! Here's some Merry:)
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I can't pass up a good Star Trek pun.
Now to find Khandles for my hannukiah this year
Since late 2021, I had been working on illustrating a Chinese version of The Hobbit. The book was published in August 2024.
After all these years, a dream came true. ❤️
Aredhel and Eol(in Celtic-style clothes, which is my canon style for Sindar ♥ ♥ ) made with ballpoint pen and cheap markers, the best medium for clothing design *_*
Pompeii
Watercolors in situ by Luigi Bazzani -late 19th century, early 20th century
At the time Bazzani was working at Pompeii, the newly excavated remains still retained their original vibrant paint.
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Need y’all to know that in the 1970’s a letter to the editor was published in Daily Telegraph where the author offhandedly used the phrase “Tolkien-like gloom” to describe an area with barren trees and JRRT himself wrote back an incensed rebuttal at the use of his name in a context that suggested anything negative about trees.
“I feel that it is unfair to use my name as an adjective qualifying ‘gloom’, especially in a context dealing with trees. In all my works I take the part of trees as against all their enemies”
He was like how dare you sir I am the biggest tree fan out there
A tree tried to eat the hobbits. Tom Bombadil had to save them. There's Mirkwood, "The Forest of Great Fear." I'm on the side of the writer of the letter to the editor.
Because Tolkien is Tolkien, he actually directly defended the actions of all his forests and trees in this same letter I’m referencing
@businesstiramisu !!!!
This is the best thing in the entire world. Here is a transcript:
Beautiful place because trees are loved From Prof. J.R.R. TOLKIEN SIR—with reference to your leader of June 29, I feel that it is unfair to use my name as an adjective qualifying “gloom,” especially in a context dealing with trees. In all my works I take the part of trees as against all their enemies. Lothlorien is beautiful because there the trees were loved; elsewhere forests are represented as awakening to consciousness of themselves. The Old Forest was hostile to two-legged creatures because of the memory of many injuries. Fangorn Forest was old and beautiful, but at the time of the story tense with hostility because it was threatened by a machine-loving enemy. Mirkwood had fallen under the domination of a Power that hated all living things, but it was restored to beauty and became Greenwood the Great before the end of the story. It would be unfair to compare the Forestry Commission with Sauron because, as you observe, it is capable of repentance; but nothing it has done that is stupid compares with the destruction, torture and murder of trees perpetrated by private individuals and minor official bodies. This savage sound of the electric saw is never silent wherever trees are still found growing. J.R.R. TOLKIEN Merton College, Oxford
@monstrousgourmandizingcats
"Old Man Willow did nothing wrong" is not the Tolkien take I expected today, but I'm here for it.
Old Man Willow only saw the familiar faces of a race that burned his people alive out of fear. And they were back.
Tolkien supporting his trees' rights AND wrongs
“It would be unfair to compare the Forestry Commission with Sauron because, as you observe, it is capable of repentance”
/cackling
Jacynth Hope-Simpson (editor) - The Hamish Hamilton Book of Witches - Hamish Hamilton - 1966 (illustrated by Krystyna Turska)
Tol Brandir by Alan Lee
I want to redo ROP Elrond eventually - I'd rather give him visual themes of feathers, stars, and sky rather than having him look so leafy - but I had a lot of fun with this sketch and experimenting with the background!
My doodle for TRSB challenge. I wanted to draw two most unpropable Middle-earth characters together. So here is Lobelia Sackville-Baggins and Finrod Felagund ♡ I think their conversation topic is ancient tableware ♡
Well, more on this topic will be posted by @actual-bill-pots, who claimed this ♡
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1. 19th century sealskin thong, Greenland
2. Pazyryk swan made of felted reindeer wool, circa 400 BCE, Siberia
3. Child’s hat with bird, nalbound cotton and wool, 1000–1476 CE, Chancay culture, Peru
4. Knitted cotton sock from Egypt, 1000-1200 CE
5. Sidonian flask shaped like a date, 1st-2nd century CE, Syria or Palestine
6. World’s oldest surviving pants, woven wool, circa 1300-1000 BCE, China
I'm reading The Silmarillion and loving every page of it. It's lighting my brain on fire with ideas for art and character design.
This is Nessa of the Valar, "lithe and fleetfooted", dancing on the lawn of Valimar with the wind in her hair. I tried to make her deer-like - the shape of her ear, the freckles, her delicate limbs. I used a detail brush instead of a pen to ink her, so I had a better "flow" of movement.
My take on Gil-Galad's design from Rings of Power. Yes his entire outfit is done in shiny gold paint, I needed an excuse to use it:)
Here's how the gold paint looks in the light:) He's been sitting on my dining room table being blindingly bright (as he should be).
My take on Gil-Galad's design from Rings of Power. Yes his entire outfit is done in shiny gold paint, I needed an excuse to use it:)
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wretchedly perish then said cicero wednesday
A Roman Fresco (50-79 AD), from Pompeii.
It represents a woman next to a man, perhaps her beloved, he seems to be teaching her to play a type of lyre called kithara, in a very intimate attitude.
British Museum
