I don’t know where this image of Turgon and Finrod building a sandcastle in Alqualondë came from, but I couldn’t get it out of my head.




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Aside from the fact that I find it incredibly hard to draw men (and it’ll take a long time before I manage to do it right), there were two problems I had to face when I started drawing:

1) Tuor’s hair colour: I assumed he was dark headed. That is, until I remembered he belonged to the House of Hador, and yes, in UT it’s said that he was golden- ( Read more... )

Inspired by this part of the Song of Beren and Lúthien:

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


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