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@ainurweek Day 6
"One for the Dark Lord"
2020
But secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it, to be subject wholly to it and to last only so long as it too should last. And much of the strength and will of Sauron passed into that One Ring; for the power of the Elven-rings was very great, and that which should govern them must be a thing of surpassing potency; and Sauron forged it in the Mountain of Fire in the Land of Shadow. And while he wore the One Ring he could perceive all the things that were done by means of the lesser rings, and he could see and govern the very thoughts of those that wore them.
-"The Silmarillion", by J.R.R. Tolkien
"The Eye"
2020
The Eye: that horrible sense of a hostile will that strove with great power to pierce all shadows of cloud, and earth, and flesh, and to see you: to pin you under its deadly gaze, naked, immovable.
-"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", by J.R.R. Tolkien
One of my favorite concepts or design ideas introduced in the Hobbit Trilogy was having the actual silhouette of Sauron appear as the pupil of the Red Eye.
I tried that idea here but with the original design for the Eye from the LotR Trilogy.
"The Return of the Shadow"
2021
But Sauron was not of mortal flesh, and though he was robbed now of that shape in which had wrought so great an evil, so that he could never again appear fair to the eyes of Men, yet his spirit arose out of the deep and passed as a shadow and a black wind over the sea, and came back to Middle-earth and to Mordor that was his home.
-"The Silmarillion", by J.R.R. Tolkien
"Tom Bombadil in a Nutshell"
2021
Silly ol' Tom demonstrating the only possible way he could ever outmatch Sauron: by exasperating him to death.
"The Moon's Guardian"
2021
...but Tilion was a hunter of the company of OromΓ«, and he had a silver bow. He was a lover of silver, and when he would rest he forsook the woods of OromΓ«, and going into LΓ³rien he lay in dream by the pools of EstΓ«, in Telperionβs flickering beams; and he begged to be given the task of tending for ever the last Flower of Silver.
-"The Silmarillion", by J.R.R. Tolkien
not really canonical scene, but i couldn't resist
I guess this is my peak design for them
Melkor is now fully in his "awfully long twink" era
and Mairon still has the most uncomfortable look