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Oil Painting WIP
it’s kind of a shitty photo. This is a wip of the Witch-King of Angmar from lord of the rings. I actually I’m really loving painting so I’ll probably do more in the future!
Finished Oil Painting
Which King of Angmar is finished!! Not sure how much time was devoted to this but I finished it relatively quick. I really enjoyed painting this piece because I love Lord of the Rings and I think the witch king is very epic!!!
Still, she did not blanch
I draw in a big sketchbook, but people always seem surprised at the scale of my drawings. Anyway here's a photograph of the real, frankensteined-together piece. When you're a traditional artist you don't have photoshop layers, so you have to make do with cut-out paper layers, haha
Pen for scale. Probably my biggest pen-and-ink only piece.
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING requested by @jamiiefraser
I need your Rings of Power theories
how do we think season 2 will end? will we get all the way to the fall of Numenor and forging of the one ring, or will that be the subject of season 3? are we going to see the rise of the witch-king and Angmar?
"Shadow of Despair"
2019
"King of Angmar"
2020
"The Witch-king's Hour"
2020
"The Witch-king of Angmar"
2020
The lord of that land was known as the Witch-king, but it was not known until later that he was indeed the chief of the Ringwraiths, who came north with the purpose of destroying the Dúnedain in Arnor, seeing hope in their disunion, while Gondor was strong.
-"The Lord of the Rings: Appendices", by J.R.R. Tolkien
"The Nazgûl and his Prey"
2021
It's interesting to realize that the Witch-king was one of the main architects of the decline of the Dúnedain, not just in the North, but also in the South with his conquest of Minas Ithil and the killing of the last King of Gondor before Aragorn.
It's a sentiment I wanted to convey in this piece: the Lord of the Nazgûl as a scourge and bane of the Realms in Exile.
"The Black Captain"
2021
Mordor's Champion Extraordinaire.
"The Nazgûl's Crown"
2021
The dopest helmet befitting the dopest villain.
"The Captain of Despair"
2022
"...but it was not by numbers that we were defeated. A power was there that we have not felt before. Some said that it could be seen, like a great black horseman, a dark shadow under the moon."
-"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", by J.R.R. Tolkien
I had wanted to illustrate this scene for a while: the Witch-king's assault on Osgiliath that opened the War of the Ring and that enabled the Nazgûl passage across the river to start their search for the One Ring.
"The Shadow of Despair"
2023
In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl. A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl, under the archway that no enemy ever yet had passed, and all fled before his face.
-"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", by J.R.R. Tolkien
Behold! The Witch-king's moment of (near) triumph!
A notoriously, and unnecessarily, controversial scene. A lot of people don't like to see Gandalf the White being trounced by the Lord of the Nazgûl. Yet the reason why I say unnecessarily controversial is because we know from the texts that the Witch-king was vastly grown in strength at this point, and that Gandalf himself wasn't sure wether he could beat him. Thematically this represents a point of near defeat, where all the defences of Minas Tirith have been broken, and with the commander of the city, a character that in so many ways represents hope, about to fall to the enemy captain, a character that is the embodiment of despair. It therefore makes the subsequent arrival of the Rohirrim that much more powerful. So, and the detractors will have to forgive me, this scene works however you want to put it, and by rights should have been included in the theatrical release.
It's always a treat for me to see two opposing heavyweights of any fantasy story meet in battle. Granted, this was more of a brief clash than a battle; and the Witch-king isn't really the Big-bad from Lord of the Rings. But given that Sauron never comes forth from his tower, this is as good as we get; his second in command, there to enforce his Master's power and will on the battlefield. Gandalf and the Witch-king are also my two favorite LotR characters (and my favorites of any work of fiction, ever) so of course this scene was always going to be a favorite of mine.
"No Living Man"
2023
Out of the wreck rose the Black Rider, tall and threatening, towering above her. With a cry of hatred that stung the very ears like venom he let fall his mace.
-"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien's stories are teaming with examples of heroic characters who, against all odds, manage to triumph against foes far greater than they are: you see it in Bard and Smaug, in Sam and Shelob, and also in Éowyn and the Witch-king. Her immense courage in facing down an enemy that is terror and despair personified cannot be overstated; and it was her bravery, her love and devotion for Théoden, her bond with Merry, and a wee bit of help from prophecy that carried the day.
I much prefer the timing of the fall of the Witch-king in the movies than in the books. In the novel, the Witch-king is destroyed shortly after the arrival of the Rohirrim, with a lot more battle left to fight. Here he is destroyed almost at battle's end, at the very same moment that Aragorn's reinforcements arrive to turn the tide. Despair is vanquished at the very same moment that hope is restored.
"Morgul Lord"
2024
This way and that turned the dark head helmed and crowned with fear, sweeping the shadows with its unseen eyes.
-"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", by J.R.R. Tolkien
The evil, greenish, foreboding light of Minas Morgul really suits the Witch-king beautifully.
Done for Day 2 of Allan Whincup's Tolkien Art Challenge on Instagram.
Когда твоё пророчество тебе сулит лишь жизнь только в крепкой мужской Cumпании.
When the prophercy predicts you only life in a strong male company.
-Stupid prophercy! I don't even have a girlfriend.
-There is no better vagina than anal comrade :D
-Back off! I have heterosexual grief.
