#felagund

how does it look? is it almost done?

Hello! <3 I'm so happy to hear that! And yes, I am still on the elf(LOTR in general) grind. And here's Finrod for you!

I remember seeing another piece of fanart of him in this cloak thing and I just had to draw him in the same, I love cloaks and especially fluffy ones. I might've gone for better colors ngl, but I hope you like it!

Let me know who else you'd like to see me draw :)

P.s. I also have commissions open! Carrd link

The Journey of Felagund Ingoldo Findarato

For @arafinwean-week, day two, Finrod.

The first encapsulates Finrod's journey. It moves from the left down, then up to the top right down. On the left: Valinor, the mountains, the beaches of Alqualonde, and the beginning of the Helcaraxe on the left. The Halcaraxe continues to the right side, and on the right there is also Beleriand, Dorthonion on fire or Angband, and the rivers parting closer to the center imply Tol Sirion. Then there are bits of fire, and blood.

The center - the gold. Finrod's hair, his personality, shining and bright. Half a circlet on the right side of his head, the front side, facing forward, looking out east. Showing his ambition, his kingship in the East.

The Helcaraxe, lands of Beleriand, Sauron's fire and dungeon, then streaks of blood like claw marks are all entwined into his hair, showing that though he leaves back West, those lands and pain are entwined with him, and who he is.

(And small fun detail, rose gold in the gold that is him towards the right and bottom. Bloodstains, or foreshadowing the blood that comes.)

Then the next three pieces;

Green is Felagund, with much gold and blue weaving in and out. I put green and Felagund together due to Finrod's own green heraldry, and the name he was gifted for who he is.

Blue is Ingoldo. The colors and name of his father, and the past. The face he shows, the colors he bears, who he shows to others.

Gold is Findarato. Both, gold and the name, are his appearance. How others see him. Bits of green, who he is, and more blue, who he presents himself as.

Belegaer the Great, doom and the deeps

The Ulumúri of shell and the songs of the sea

Uinen and Ossë, Maia of the sea

White ships of the Teleri, afloat on the sea

Grinding ice and frost and peril on the sea

Amid the song of Felagund, the sighing of the sea

Ulmo lord of waters, standing knee-deep

Tuor, the messenger of hope from the sea, Loved by lord of waters, called by the sea

Voronwë, the last, saved from the sea, Sodden, chosen, as a guide for thee

The Great River Sirion, running down to the sea

Círdan, lord of the havens by the sea

Elwing, running, looking, leaping

Eärendil, the mariner, borne across the sea

A white tower of birds keeping watch by the sea

Húrin, unconquered, cast himself to the sea

Maglor, the pain, the wandering by the waves, The last silmaril, cast into the sea

Aldarion, king, and the lure of the sea

Númenor, fair Númenor, drowned in the sea

Palantíri, stones of seeing, lost in the sea

The elves, the journey, the longing of the sea

the sea, the sea, the sea

"But as for me, my heart is with the Sea, and I will dwell by the grey shores, guarding the Havens until the last ship sails."