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adwendoodles · 2 years

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As part of my revamped tarot cards series, obviously I had to touch up the wheel of fortune! As a bonus I started playing around with just making it a ‘normal print’ (i.e. actually painting something behind the border)

The changes for those curious are:

1. FINGON’S HAIR omg i’ve hated it since I made it bc back in 2020 when i started this I was paralyzed by trying to make things realistic... also established fandom designs. also the fact that i’d never really drawn either of them. fingon still changes as my mood dictates tbh, but I love this big floofy hair for him

2. the armor. fingon’s became a bit more decorated. i also added fire reflections to both. some hints of red to mae as well. is it fire? is it dried blood? we shant know

(also as a bonus, ive decided that this is both of them towards the end of their lives... both consumed by fire... so yes, it is dried blood)

3. darkened fingons skin a bit bc it was too bright before.

4. improved the fire and other changes

#The Silmarillion #maedhros #fingon #silmarillion tarot #silm tarot #silm tarot card #maitimo #findekano #russingon

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wrathematics · 2 years

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A few new tarot cards! Nienna (the world) and Elwing (the star)

And, since I already know Tumblr’s gonna cut a bit of detail, a close-up:

#nienna #elwing #silmarillion tarot #silmarillion #tolkien #silm art #silmarils #my art #fan art #palette meme #work doodles

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point-maitimo · 9 months

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« Each of them took to himself a Silmaril, for they said: 'Since one is lost to us, and but two remain, and we two alone of our brothers, so is it plain that fate would have us share the heirlooms of our father.' »

- J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Silmarillion”.

Maedhros and Maglor, the last remaining sons of Feanor. The last attempt to reclaim the Silmarils. My heart is entirely with the First House of the Noldor, so this illustration is extremely important to me.

#maedhros #maglor #silmarillion #tolkien #elf #tarot #digital

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vzzarellet · 6 months

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HERE WE GO, FOLKS.

Fëanor as "The Hierophant" tarot card.

My lovely poor dead elven king❤️

#art #silmarillion #artwork #tolkien #lord of the rings #feanor #tarotart #tarot cards #foryou #feanorians

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cloodicus · 2 years

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In honour of Morgoth’s ahem beautiful servant

the line has me feral ya’ll

#sauron #mairon #tarot #the magician #rings of power #lotr #silmarillion #lord of the rings #my art #tarot art #tarot card #lotr on prime #digital art

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arlenianchronicles · 2 years

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Elerossë Sea-king // Elerondo Star-king

I’ve been thinking about drawing fairytale-like Elrond for some time now, but I couldn’t come up with a good composition for him and Maglor ... But then I was highly inspired by Wylie Beckert’s amazing traditional art, especially her Reign of Sin card deck project! So I thought, why not try for a tarot-y piece again? XDD

There’s no poem this time, sorry y’all ^^;; But I was also inspired by Prophecy from Dune (1984) which helped set the mood while I was working on this, so I maybe that can work in place of a poem for now!

This painting will be up in my Inprnt shop! :DDD

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joetamy · 10 months

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Experimenting with card designs and who to place where, let me know if you have opinions/ideas. I am all ears!

#Silm Tarot #Silmarillion #Elros #Fëanor #Luthien #Tolkien #Tarot #TheAngbandMuseum

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kathrins-sketchbook · 2 years

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Yavanna wakes Arda

without and with quenya calligraphy (Yavanna Kementari, heri kuivaron olvaronye; lady of beasts and plants)

A really fun commission I did for a moot on tolkien twt ^^ part of a valar themed tarot deck-to-be

#illustration #art #silmarillion #yavanna #yavanna kementari #valar #ainur #tolkien #silm art #middle earth #tarot #drawing #pastels #chalk pastel #lotr fanart #lord of the rings #quenya #tengwar

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koyunsoncizeri · 1 year

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5 of Cups

Sadness / Mourning / Disappointment / Regret / Suffering / Emotional Adjustment.

Two versions of Maedhros when 5 of Cups played a lot of role in his life.

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✧You can find me on insta as well.

#silmarillion #the silmarillion #maedhros #jrr tolkien #maitimo #feanorians #maedhros the tall #sons of feanor #tarot #five of cups

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elladanns · 1 year

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ignore my ugly blanket, but this is the most gorgeous tarot deck i've ever seen. even the guide is themed it's so stunning.

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wormedeye · 10 months

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ok so i was listening to some ✨true crime✨ podcasts and was drawing some ✨melkor✨ for fun

and i accidentally made him a caucasian man

the art is messy ‘cause my hands shake idk why im sorry😩

#melkor #morgoth #silmarillion #silm art #caucasian #?¿?¿#idk burka really suits him #and the Caucasian Nose #like the aquiline nose or how do you guys call it #eye art #traditional art is eeerhhhhh uhhhh ughmhfeh erh uhm #it really depends on luck and time of the day and the moon phase and the maya calendar and some ancient predictions and tarot and-#you should sacrifice a virgine lamb and maybe your traditional art turn out good

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adwendoodles · 1 year

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finally finished the redone strength card!

I screen recorded me doing part of this because... i’ve always wanted to try. it could be better but if you’re curious, here is the link

#silm #The Silmarillion #hurin #hurin thalion #silm tarot #silmarillion tarot #silm tarot card #i really wanted to redo this one #not just bc the og didnt fit the style of the rest #but because i was trying to be ironic about the strength card showing hurin walking into the ocean....#but i am Past That now i have Done Some Self Therapy #jk jk jk #but yah i think its much more interesting to show the hope that the day will rise #even tho the water is there to swallow him and the chair and the mountains of morgoth in between...#eventually day does come again #and i think that's the best message the strength card can send #dont @ me about the actual card meaning i cant remember it haah #ft. the helm of hardor that i vaguely recall hurin wearing at some point again dont @ me about details its too late i already drew it #the sky is weird bc i wanted to keep a lil bit of the og card in this #and thats that

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oxbridge-scribbles · 1 year

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For Innumerable Stars 2022

Prompt by BloodwingBlackbird for the character group "Farmer Maggot's Dogs & Oromë"

Inspired by the Strength card from the Rider–Waite Tarot deck and an abundance of existential terror. More after the jump.

(Fish's note--Noodle didn't quite finish this note before life intervened but says that the gist of it is here. Having listened to endless moaning about this for the past two months, I can confirm.)

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I probably intermittently screamed for about half an hour when I saw this character group nestled amongst other (ostensibly) more... approachable groups, but I like to suffer, so I sorrowfully set aside my draft of a M*A*S*H* pastiche set in the Houses of Healing and went on a journey through the gurgling bowels of the internet.

Eventually, I somehow stumbled on the Strength card from the Rider-Waite deck:

"Ah," I said to myself sagely after reading precisely half a Wikipedia article, "Yes."

The Strength card depicts a lion and a woman with a lemniscate (infinity symbol) over her head. Some cards place the woman in a more explicit position of power, while others simply have them cuddling and the like.

Wikipedia says that A. E. Waite says that this card is associated with "power, energy, action, courage, magnanimity; also complete success and honours" while, when reversed, it is associated with "despotism, abuse of power, weakness, discord, sometimes even disgrace."

"Tulkas," I mumbled feverishly, "Melkor. Trees."

Sluggishly, I plumbed Google for some inspiration on Farmer Maggot's dogs. I emerged from that dark road with nothing but their names, which I promptly forgot.

"That lion looks like a hairy dog," I said, "And sure, let's make Oromë genderously ambiguous and worry about everything else later."

Oromë, along with most of the Valar, have always felt a little sinister to me, so the initial plan was to draw Oromë smilingly slitting lion-dog's throat, with the corpses of Nahar and the other two dogs lying around in the foreground. When I proposed this to my dog-loving friend, he stopped just short of attempting to execute me, but it was a near thing.

"But dogs," I pleaded, "Hunting. Death."

"No," he replied.

Defeated, I returned to the internet for inspiration. In the pits of delirium, I stumbled upon this Wikipedia article about Sköll, a wolf that supposedly spends its time chasing the sun.

"Wolves are basically dogs, but hairier," I declared.

From there my fate was sealed. I'm not a fan of hair in general, so Oromë was given a skull to wear, and I made some half-hearted attempts at mushrooms.

As the Strength card is the eighth card in the eight card in the Rider-Waite deck, I had the brilliant idea to substitute an eight-rayed sun for the Roman numerals at the top. Suddenly, I had a draft.

Another early idea I'd had was to show Oromë being hunted by the three dogs, but that didn't seem to fit with the general theme of "Oromë, the magnanimous despot" I was going for, so I nixed it. I did want to have some sort of theme of vengeance, however, so the sköll-dog emerged from a blackened tree, which I imagined to be the withered remains of Laurelin (or even just your run-of-the-mill dead tree) to suggest the role of the Valar in the Darkening.

Time passed. Things got more dramatic. Sköll-dog became a limbless dragon-dog. I became geographically confused, found myself in Japan, and then the sun tragically lost both sunglasses and rays. Lion-dog became problematic. I helpfully forgot Nahar existed.