#beorings

In the meantime, a whole plot bundle has come together

Okay, honestly, I'm not sure I want share her story but I love this doodle.

She's an OC from Tolkien's setting, she exists for 3 years already and I'm still looking for her appearence))

She's a healer from Dorthonion and she was born in 432 FA.

gurguliare replied to your post “crocordile replied to your post “Fic or art, I don’t care which, but...”

i feel like finrod with a full entourage when he meets beor is hard to reconcile with the repeated emphasis on 1) the fact that he's alone and 2) the fact that he lives among them for a while after... definitely yes to the need for pageantry on the royal/diplomatic combined hunt though, but i would kind of fudge it as "finrod, as fairytale king/confirmed eccentric, journeys to visit his cousins as a lone guest and is hosted as such until he takes his leave of them"

i mean and obviously it doesn't take that much work to insert a mini travelling court into his encounters with men, but given that tolkien very much plays on the "fairy court appears out of nowhere!" trope elsewhere, the absence of it here feels deliberate

crocordile replied to your post “crocordile replied to your post “Fic or art, I don’t care which, but...”

@gurguliare I agree! The aesthetic experience begs for Finrod to be the one faerie element in the scene and it feels super intimate :') But I think Finrod ditching the party and meeting mortals by himself could still work with a full royal hunt - that he deliberately leaves behind? It's just weird to see art of the actual hunt and it be just three horse riding guys being dudes

gurguliare replied to your post “crocordile replied to your post “Fic or art, I don’t care which, but...”

YES no i agree, that was what i was thinking also, a full hunt that he just. peels off from. what a weirdo

though like, hunts could also be pretty scattered right? a lot of people but moving around in small groups to corner/pursue the prey? not that it would be remotely likely to have all three princes together and no one else in sight, but ... i have such a horrible time trying to visualize epic hunt descriptions, sigh

crocordile replied to your post “crocordile replied to your post “Fic or art, I don’t care which, but...”

@gurguliare I know I saw a movie once that cemented my mental image of The Hunt but I can't remember now which one �� but no yeah Def! People getting scattered during the hunt or getting lost is even a plot point of...a medieval romance... I can't remember which one either lmao orz I'm terrible 2nite

BUT I MEAN yeah Def possible! ! I think Yav was vagueing at the Jenny dolfen art with m&m&f hunting and it just looks like three dudes on a horse having fun... I know that's what I had in mind personally ahaha

(At least there are a couple doggies tho <3)

gurguliare replied to your post “crocordile replied to your post “Fic or art, I don’t care which, but...”

i figured sdkgjsldkg, but yeah, that art is lovely but also definitely very Maedhros and Maglor and Finrod Day Trip With Two Dogs

crocordile replied to your post “crocordile replied to your post “Fic or art, I don’t care which, but...”

@gurguliare I just went looking for it again and the dogs are really, really cute... I bet Finrod named them maeghros and madlor

So I was totally vagueing at the Jenny Dolfen art, because I love her style but of all artists, I expect her to do better w/r/t historical things like that?  Given she did a whole series on Hannibal, she’s clearly got some pretty substantial historical background and usually she’s pretty reliable about using it.  But also just in general I was realizing that I don’t think I’ve ever seen or read anything that gives that scenario the full Royal Hunt treatment.  If there is something, please link me!  

I definitely agree that aesthetically/canonically in that initial meeting with Beor and his people, Finrod is completely alone, but the fact that he lives among them for awhile after actually says to me that someone at least knew where he was and how to get in touch with him?  I feel like there would be more panic if he just.  Disappeared.  Way too much risk that he was captured by orcs or spiders or other evil.  

Winter Dortonion and a brief moment of happiness Andret teaching Aegnor how to skate. I like the idea that skating is a human invention, and something the elves could learn from the edain :3

Эта работа будет украшать последнюю страницу календаря на предстоящий год :)

...Наконец, они достигли озера, о котором им говорила Андрет. Замерзшая гладь была так чиста, что казалась темно-синей, с невиданно сложенными в глубине друг на друга белыми голышами круглой гальки. К берегу вел крутой спуск — летом его обожали ласточки, ежа, васильки и ромашка, но зимой склон становился пуст и тих. Андрет улыбнулась им и помахала рукой: Айканаро видел, что она стояла на берегу, где сквозь толстый лед, ещё белый на мелководье, пробивались рогоз и камыш. Травы засохли и мертво шелестели. Братья в нерешительности замерли, глядя на лёд. За щеки куснул порыв холодного ветра, будто подгоняя спуститься вниз. Айканаро неодобрительно поглядел на гладкий, страшный черно-синий лед. Он ненавидел эту синюю бездну — аж передергивало. До сих пор в ушах стоял ломко-жуткий, далеко разносящийся во влажном воздухе треск. Как светла, легка и нетронута этим кошмаром казалась Андрет! Она не ведала ужасов Хелькараксэ и не знала, как долго спорил он с братом о том, что им следовало попробовать разделить зимнюю забаву эдайн: может, то излечило бы их обоих от вечного ужаса перед снегом и льдом, навсегда въевшимися в память знаком горя, предательства, лишений и смерти...

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