[ID: four posters in soft shades of pale pink, grey, and dark brown or black.

1: A close-up of south sudanese-australian model Adut Akech, showing about half of her face. She faces the viewer, looking at them with a neutral expression. She has dark brown skin and dark hair braided back. She wears several silver earrings and a pink feathery garment that reaches her chin. White lines frame the left and upper side of the image. White text in the upper left corner (where the lines meet) reads "aredhel" in all caps and, below it in cursive, "noble one" / 2: The branches of a cherry blossom tree in bloom. Two white lines run down the right side, and white and brown cursive text aligned to them reads "a gleam of white" / 3: Forested, snowy mountains against a somewhat cloud sky. Same format as Image 2, but the elements are on the other side, and the text reads "in the dim land." / 4: Adut Akech, this time shown from the waist up, with her face out of frame. She is wearing a fringed pink shirt with thin straps, silk skirt, and large gold earrings. One hand is on her hip and her head is turned to the right. Same format as Image 1, but the lines are on the right and bottom sides, and the text reads "írissë" and "desirable" //End ID]

annatar’s seduction of celebrimbor

Arwen Undómiel

Random things from sketchbook part 1

Elwing

Arien

Maedhros pre and post capture

The High King of the Noldor and some half-elven kids he found

Nolofinwë Week Day Five: Gil-Galad, Elros, and Elrond

This is maybe more headcannon? I don't think Tolkien ever nailed down the age Elrond and Elros were when Maglor and Mahdhros left/released them, but I always felt like they were still fairly young. I see a lot of interpretations of their complicated relationship with their captors, but not very much about their relationship with their rescuers.

Elrond at the very least seems like he must have been close to Gil-Galad. He was his herald, he led his armies, Gil-Galad left one of the three Elven Rings to him before his death.

I'm sure they missed their parents and Maedhros and Maglor, but I always imagine that being found by Gil-Galad and taken to Lindon was the first time they had really felt safe or home since the Sack of Sirion.

A bit late, but finished at last: Gil-Galad, the seventh king of the Noldor, and actually, I think he had the longest reign since Finwe. Also the last king of the Noldor in Middle Earth, because Elrond didn’t want to do it after he died, and managed to persuade the rest of the Noldor that there weren’t enough of them left to need a king. Notable for dying punching a dark lord in the face, in the finest Finwean tradition. Also famous for having a great deal of confusion around whose, exactly, son he is. (My personal favorite headcanon, stolen from a fic I read: Lalwen’s son, raised by Fingon after she died.)

Shown here with morning glories, and specifically, Kikyo Snowflakes, which the moment I saw them I knew I was going to use for Gil-Galad.

Gong Li as Tar-Ancalimë, First Ruling Queen of Númenor—the daughter of Tar-Aldarion and Erendis, and successor to the throne. Her mother’s tragic married life influenced Tar-Ancalimë’s future rejection of her husband, as well as her policy regarding Númenor’s relationship with its colonies in Middle Earth.

Ancalimë was succeeded by her son, Tar-Anárion. She died in year 1285 of the Second Age, after a rule of over two centuries.

(part of the series YOU LOOK UPON A WOMAN, a project which reimagines Tolkien with a cast of women of color)

ecthelion doodles

what a woman

three rings for the elven-kings under the sky

More elf portraits ! Fingon and Turgon

Oof I've not posted art for ages - Here's a Kano!

Tinúviel was dancing there to music of a pipe unseen. And light of stars was in her hair and in her raiment, glimmering.

The last 2 children of Fingolfin and Anaire ! Aredhel and Argon !

You ever think Denethor sometimes looked at his son, the son he’s about to send to an unwinnable war yet again, and think…. He used to be so small… He has his mother’s eyes… How did it come to this? 

Golshifteh Farahani as Eowyn Ewunia, of the House of Phraates—a noblewoman and Bow-wife of Rohas, niece of the late King Tiridâta and sister to King Eamad. She spent much of her youth caring for her ailing uncle, yearning for an opportunity to prove herself in battle. Her longing drove her to disguise herself as a man and accompany the Rohatim to Minas Tirith, where she won great acclaim at the Battle of Pelennor Fields by slaying the Witch-King with the aid of Meriada Brandybuck. Recovering from her injuries in Gondor’s Houses of Healing, she met Faraleth, the Steward of Gondor, and the two were married soon after. They settled in Ithilien after the War of the Ring.

(part of the series YOU LOOK UPON A WOMAN, a project which reimagines Tolkien with a cast of women of color)