I'm Very Excited To Show You This Year's @tolkienrsb Art I Made!It's Called Stains In The Snow And It's

I'm very excited to show you this year's @tolkienrsb art I made! It's called Stains in the Snow and it's set during the journey through Helcaraxë, showing Glorfindel at the front and Galdor and Salgant behind him. I'm not gonna give out clues what the art is about, if you are interested you are gonna have to read the story written by lovely @jhelenivarsimae, that I will link when it is gonna be available on ao3 on September 6! I will update this post with the link for it, I'm so hyped to read it myself!! I added two versions of this art, originally I was planning to just put the gif here but the quality is not the best, so I also added a still frame.

Where now all our sons? for Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang 2024 ( @tolkienrsb ) in collaboration with @niennawept. Title roughly translated from this song by Lind Erebros.

Eärwen, mother of Finrod, Angrod, Aegnor, and Galadriel, as I imagined she might have been had she joined the Host of the West in Beleriand during the War of Wrath.

Other thoughts below.

This was strongly influenced by Jenny Dolfen's A Sorrowful Meeting in theme, if not in execution. I've always wondered how much those in Valinor knew about the goings-on in Beleriand, where so many other reunions would never happen.

Women, broadly, get the short shrift in the canon narrative, so I wanted to draw focus to them and their grief, not as helpless, hopeless, hand-wringing maidens, but as angry, maybe even ambivalent avengers of what they had lost.

This closing verse from Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Dirge Without Music" was very much on my mind:

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know.  But I do not approve.  And I am not resigned.

Russingon sketch

Thinking about these two. A LOT

I like to imagine for Gimli “elf traits” slowly become “Legolas traits” until he’s in too deep.

Mini comic style thingy fueled by 2am hype only. Dont mind me not deciding on the faces i r u s h ed

My first submission for this year's @tolkienrsb (slide 32) in collab with @the-red-butterfly! Manwe takes a human form to visit the Edain; he befriends a blind elder from a village of the House of Beor, and slice-of-life shenanigans ensue XD

detail from Witte Wieven by Marthe Jonkers - Instagram account of the artist: @arthemart