Painted 2/3 of the Mom Squad! Nerdanel’s hair may defeat me yet, stay tuned >.>
Month: September 2018
I for one am glad that the Silmarillion fandom has fully embraced the truth of Elu Monsterfucker Thingol.
I’ve been thinking about Elu Thingol a lot lately, which is kind of a weird place to be, mentally.
Anyway here’s some terrible dads snogging in Elf Prehistory
I wanted to draw something kind of mindless so here is a portrait of my forever girl, Ancalagon the Black, Mightiest of the Dragon Host of the War of Wrath.
What up I moved a bunch of files onto my external hard drive and found some stuff I drew in 2006
@bugtongue I have been in This Specific Hell for 12+ years
I’m sick so I spent today drawing Thingol with his chocobo pet Gastornis. My Cuivienen-era headcanons are mostly “what if Middle Earth had prehistoric megafauna”. As you do. So. Thingol and megachicken.
Elu Thingol invented Resting Bitch Face, by the way, he just. Always looks like that.
[Feanor]
More Tattoo!Noldor – Nerdanel this time, because I love her to an inordinate degree.
Also pinning down my cultural tattoo headcanons, to wit:
House heraldry originally started as “clan” ID tattoos. Nerdanel is second-generation, and can only trace her family tree back to one pair of Unbegotten elves (Mahtan and his wife), while Feanor is third-generation, so he has the devices for both Finwë’s parents and Miriel’s. Their kids would have three devices, etc. etc.
Re: Aulendur tattoos, location indicates general field of expertise, while the design corresponds to a specific field of study. Shoulder blade tattoos are for engineering (mechanical for Feanor, architectural for Nerdanel); Nerdanel’s low-back is for stonemasonry, with a specialty in decorative masonry/stonecarving; Feanor’s shoulder-yoke is for metalwork, with a focus on gold and silversmithing; and Feanor’s bicep bands are for chemistry/materials science, specifically his focus on gemcraft.
[Nerdanel]
I wanted to render back muscles and finally settle on tattoo designs for Feener.
I’ve given him Finwë’s heraldry, and also a device I invented for Miriel (based on a flax flower). The black knotwork is an Aulendur thing – you see similar tattoos on Dwarves in Middle Earth – and is awarded to students of Aulë when they achieve mastery in a craft. Mahtan, Nerdanel, and Curufin have similar tattoos (that are perhaps a little less… extensive…….. Fëanor stop getting PhDs). Celebrimbor gets pretty impressive knotwork in a slightly different style from the dwarves of Khazad-dum in the second age.