#anarien

So I had started a dress that was/is meant to be for my Teleri elf, Anarien.

It’s a silk habotai with a mesh netting with sequins over it. It’s a fairly simple drape that I came up with.  I’ve never been particularly great or creative with my own designs.  It isa simple fitted bodice like this, then the skirt is cut like Arwen’s “Dream Dress”.  I started working on it a while back, and here the bodice is pretty much finished with the two pieces basted together to act as one piece.

Telerin elves from The Silmarillion

Olwë - @rattle-and-burn (more here / IG) Eärwen - @sewlastcentury (IG) Anarien - @oldgrumpycosplay (more here / IG)

”Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time”
- H. P. Lovecraft

”The fisherman know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining on shore”
- Vincent Van Gogh

”Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown”
- Stephan Gardiner

I went to visit my parents and my old home in Florida for New Year’s, and I was able to do a beautiful shoot of my Teleri elf with my sister on the jetties near our beach!

Ever since I considered doing a Teleri elf cosplay, I knew I had to get pictures at home, and they turned out so great! I’ll be sharing a few posts of these…

“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach” - Henry Beston