#legolas's proportions keep getting more exaggerated the more i draw him

[redbootsindoriath]

I know I’ve been posting a lot more stuff from LOTR than from the Silmarillion lately, but hopefully nobody minds.  Anyway, here’s more LOTR.

Don’t be rude, Legolas.

Thanks to @cultivating-wildflowers​ for reminding me of this passage with a drawing prompt that I did not end up sticking to.

Transcription:

Gimli stood leaning against the breastwork on the wall.  Legolas sat above on the parapet, fingering his bow and peering out into the gloom. “This is more to my liking,” said the dwarf, stamping on the stones.  “Ever my heart rises as we draw near the mountains.  There is good rock here.  This country has tough bones.  I felt them in my feet as we came up the dike.  Give me a year and a hundred of my kin and I would make this a place that armies break upon like water.” “I do not doubt it,” said Legolas.  “But you are a dwarf, and dwarves are strange folk.”

#gimli #legolas #the man the myth the legends #one shiny #my trash #is this actually funny or am i just tired #i'm sorry professor tolkien #heck yeah bromance #contraband twizzlers #/end classification tags #legolas's proportions keep getting more exaggerated the more i draw him #his arms are going to look like beads on a string by the time i'm done with him #i tend to imagine him as an awkward-looking gangly teenager but like he's also an archer #which means he has to have muscly arms #and this means i end up with this stupid cartoonish look but to be completely honest i don't really mind #also just picturing legolas sitting all goofy on the wall #either with his knees sticking up around his shoulders like a spider #or else kicking his heels against the walls like a five-year-old #and absentmindedly petting his bow like you would pet a cat that jumped up on your lap while you were busy #i don't know if that's exactly how tolkien pictured the scene playing out but like #it's how it looks in my mental image and i'm not sorry