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Nienna is aroace to me, but I opted for the purple and green palette rather than the combined flag for this one and the ace palette really came through. Inspired by the luna moth. Now I need to draw Irmo and Námo with moth wings…

I drew canon characters for all of my pieces this week, but I may try to dig up some old sketches to post about a few OCs too if I get the time.

Manwë & Varda┃Aulë & Yavanna┃Oromë & Vána

I like to think Námo doesn´t have a physical body, so when he actually wears one, it becomes a blend of what Fëa looks like in the halls and physical materials. He wears jewelry mimicking his own priest and priestess to appear more "real", whereas Vairé´s body is made out of fabric and doll arms, much more visible, "unnatural".

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New headcanon: dwarf women have beards because Aulë based them on his wife whom he sees as the pinnacle of beauty.

Wings from the Pacific green sphinx moth, some praying mantis inspiration (since I did Vána with orchid mantis, but I need to redo that one still). The green mushrooms are loosely based on parrot waxcaps. Also tried to incorporate the range from trees to "small and secret things in the mold" the Silm references her caring about with the cuffs and fabric patterns :)

First day of Spring 🌻

“Yavanna, the Giver of Fruits. She is the lover of all things that grow in the earth, and all their countless forms she holds in her mind, from the trees like towers in forests long ago to the moss upon stones or the small and secret things in the mould.”

~ The Silmarillion 

“In every wood in every spring

there is a different green”

~ The Lord of the Rings

Day #368 - Laurelin