#irmo

Master of Desire

God of dreams and Visions Irmo ✨️

Pushing my "Irmo is very hot in a spiritual & ethereal vibe" propaganda to you all

I think Tolkien should have elaborate on that master of desire part 😤

I love thinking about Irmo and his domain. I want to make a newer design for these gardens but in the meantime, here's a cleaner version of my original Lórien board!

I have a separate headcanon post but I imagine the gardens as a sprawling, labyrinthine realm of mazes, springs, gardens, and glades. There are similar disorienting effects throughout as around the borders of Melian's realm, as Melian herself served in his realm.

Irmo is the Lord of Dreams and Visions and the Vala associated with Desire. He is often called Lórien after his famous Gardens of Rest, where he spends most of his time.

Irmo is the brother of Nienna the Lady of Sorrow and Námo the Master of Souls. He is married to Estë, the Valie of Healing.

I have always associated him with moths, so here he is as I always pictured him.

started off as me redrawing some of my initial mairon designs and ended up going on an rpg tangent 😭 i really wish i could have done the portraits in a pixel art style to better fit the aesthetic but my canvas wasnt the right size!!! i ended up changing annatar completely (im still contemplating how much i prefer this one compared to his old one however...!) and adjusting post-numenor sauron a bit when compared to their old 2022 sketches! im probably gonna do more redraws in the months to come cause of all the stuff i wanna change when i look back to some of my old designs haha 😳

bonus: void delusions (nebula background designed by Freepik)

Finally having some time to draw for myself, I have been able to make a new design for Irmo! It has been about time. Many thanks to @nightmares-dw for the idea to draw him! <3 I have looked back on his older design, and oh my, there sure was an idea back then, but it was far from refined. It is very exciting to make something that genuinely shows me how far I have come.

Sketches below the line~

Manwë & Varda┃Aulë & Yavanna┃Oromë & Vána┃Námo & Vairë

Irmo is inspired by multiple different butterflies put together. His body is wings wrapped around wings, in contrasting colours. Estë is lavender inspired, as I find them calming, and I am sure I am not the only one who does that. I like the idea of her wearing something below her grey robes, a shout of colourful life, so I chose blue and orange.