Only You Could Accomplish Such Art, Celebrimbor

Only you could accomplish such art, Celebrimbor

Assad Zaman as Celebrimbor from JRR Tolkien's The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales

I wonder how anxious Celebrimbor must have felt when he set out to make the rings. If he remembered well the blood cost of creation that ran through his family line, that the world were brought to flame and ruin in the name of the Silmarils his grandfather created.

He would have sat there, I think, and stressed to himself how it would be different this time. That these things he was creating were not vanity but salvation, with wholeness of intent and completeness of skill.

It must have crushed him when he saw the One and realised the legacy of Fëanor had once again come to stain Middle-Earth.

a while ago i was sent an ask from @waterjewelsspite (answered below) wherein i was asked about different elven fashions.... so from left to right: doriathrim fashion, teleri + nargothrond fashion, vanya fashion :DD these have been sitting in my drafts as uncoloured wips since early 2022 omg, but better late than never i suppose !!!

i didnt have a specific sketch page for the noldor that i did back then hahahaha so i came back to it recently and took it as a chance to do some assorted concept doodles with the kind of outfits i imagine them wearing in mundane situations? i dont quite know how to explain it but i hope my annotations can help show my thought process a bit!!

cant believe it took me this long to give like half the characters proper fullbody refs or designs (im looking at YOU beleg and mablung) but this has been super fun and really refreshing, so thank you again waterjewelsspite for the kind ask!!! sorry again it took. two and a half years. OMG. for me to get it done 😭😭😭 i hope this sufficed!!!

in usual fashion, bonus feanorian shenanigans: caranthir's first business/publishing/entrepreneurship/girlboss venture

once again thinking about Maedhros and how his arc goes from refusing to burn (ships) to choosing to burn (himself). how can I be normal about that