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Feast.

Maedhros for @feanorianweek day 1.

Wanted to do all the brothers at a feast, some happy time for each and every, but managed only this one so far:)

#tolkien fanart #tolkien elves #silmarillion #my art #watercolor #silmarillion fanart #tolkien #maedhros #elf #feanorians

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Fingolfin.

The Moon and the Sun followed him to Beleriand and Earendil was his great-grandson, so thought I'd get them all together:)

#tolkien fanart #tolkien elves #silmarillion #my art #watercolor #noldolante #fingolfin #nolofinwë

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Finduilas

"I don't know how to love him..."

(I've always thought that her obsession with Turin was what ruined her)

#tolkien fanart #tolkien elves #silmarillion #my art #watercolor #tolkien #finduilas

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The Eagle Wing.

An eagle and an elf

2024

#tolkien fanart #tolkien elves #silmarillion #watercolor #my art #silmarillion fanart #tolkien #maedhros #noldolante #elf

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Palantir

Maglor saw something horrible in the seeing stone. Apparently, a glimpse of the future.

Watercolor and pencils on paper, 2024

#tolkien fanart #tolkien elves #silmarillion #watercolor #my art #silmarillion fanart #tolkien #elf #maglor #maedhros #noldorelves #noldolante

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Sublime.

Gildor

#tolkien elves #tolkien fanart #the lord of the rings #gildor #my art #watercolor #elf #tolkien #lotr

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Feanor, summing up the year .

(after he'd invented tengwar :)) but before he made the silmarils.

#tolkien elves #tolkien fanart #silmarillion #my art #watercolor #silmarillion fanart #Feanor

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Huan and his Luthien.

It was autumn when Huan helped Luthien escape Nargothrond, that's why these hydrangeas.

I drew a version with rowans instead, but liked hydrangeas better:)

Watercolor on paper, 2023

#tolkien fanart #tolkien elves #silmarillion #my art #watercolor #silmarillion fanart #elf #luthien tinuviel #luthien #huan

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Explorer

A young elf in the blessed realm of Valinor

Watercolour on A4 paper

#tolkien fanart #tolkien elves #silmarillion #my art #watercolor #silmarillion fanart #maedhros #noldor #elf #valinor

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The firefly song.

Finrod meets other people.

"Long Felagund watched them, and love for them stirred in his heart; but he remained hidden in the trees until they had all fallen asleep. Then he went among the sleeping people, and sat beside their dying fire where none kept watch; and he took up a rude harp which Bëor had laid aside, and he played music upon it such as the ears of Men had not heard; for they had as yet no teachers in the art, save only the Dark Elves in the wild lands."

(I replaced the harp with a zither-type instrument)

#tolkien fanart #tolkien elves #silmarillion #my art #watercolor #silmarillion fanart #watercolour art #noldor #finrod

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Birdwatchers.

Maedhros and Fingon for Tolkien Gen Week @tolkiengenweek

Day 2: friendships, animals, group dynamics

Watercolor and watercolor pencils on paper, 2023

I have always seen these two only as cousins and big friends.

#tolkien fanart #tolkien elves #silmarillion #my art #watercolor #silmarillion fanart #maedhros #noldor #fingon #tolkiengenweek

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An unsent letter to Nerdanel:

“Mother, When you called me your beautiful son What did you mean to say? That all beauty must fade, as has mine, Or that I would be stupid? Mother, When you gave me a name as your blessing, Did you foresee That I'd shatter all mirrors because They can show me the monster I am? Mother, If I only could tell you that You were right.“

#tolkien fanart #tolkien elves #maedhros #my art #watercolor #pencil

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Rivendell Dreams

Arwen Undomiel and her cat

Watercolor and pencils on paper

#tolkien fanart #tolkien elves #LOTR #The Lord of the Rings #Arwen #rivendell #arwen undomiel #watercolor #my art #elf #elf and cat

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The Talk. 

Young Fëanor and Nerdanel. "While still in his early youth he wedded Nerdanel, the daughter of a great smith named Mahtan, among those of the Noldor most dear to Aule; and of Mahtan he learned much of the making of things in metal and in stone." (J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion) Watercolor on paper 2023

#tolkien fanart #tolkien elves #Silmarillion Fanart #silmarillion #noldorelves #noldor #Feanor #Nerdanel #watercolour art #traditional art #Book Illustration #my art #Valinor

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The last poem. Daeron

“To return there is no way.

If ever you may see me from the distance,

You will not recognize me.

Farewell, my friend!”

(From The Last Poem by Rabindranath Tagore)

Watercolor and paper on paper, 2023

#tolkien fanart #tolkien elves #silmarillion #daeron #sindar #my art

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I don’t know what to call this one. 

There’s pain and shame, disillusionment but not yet despair.

#watercolor #watercolour art #silmarillion #noldolante #maedhros #tolkien fanart #tolkien elves

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Woodland Dance.

King Oropher’s courtship.

Watercolour and pencils on paper, 2023

#tolkien fanart #tolkien elves #second_age lotr #oropher #wood elf #sindar