thebreathofarda:

hvit-ravn:

some sketches from my lectures.
yes, I’m rereading silmarillion.

|| these sketches are beautiful i love them.
Manwë and Melkor in the first panel are perfect, Varda and Manwë in the second are adorable, and Aulë in the thirs is amazing. Also I adore how in the first the brother look so much alike but, at the same time, are different.

Aaah….Ahh…Aulë *_* Hello friend. Hello.

*drapes self across anvil*

finduilas-faelivrin:

Elwing Bearing the Silmarill by peet

‘Thus Maedhros and Maglor gained not the jewel; but it was not lost. For Ulmo bore up Elwing out of the waves, and he gave her the likeness of a great white bird, and upon her breast there shone as a star the Silmaril, as she flew over the water to seek Eärendil her beloved.’

JRR Tolkien: The Silmarillion: Chapter 24: Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath

Source: finduilas-faelivrin

Ancalagon the Black – RivkaZ 2014

Part kite, part vulture, part gliding snake, part colugo, part dirigible, all nightmare. 

Waah, I wish I had more creature design practice! x_x With many more hours of skeleton and musculature studies I might have been able to make this guy look more convincing… but in the meantime hey, it’s a dragon! 

So keeping in mind that aerodynamics and biology are not exactly my areas of expertise, here are my headcanons for Ancalagon:

  • He’s the largest of Melkor’s dragons, whose body is large enough that when it falls on the peaks of Thangorodrim, it breaks them, and he also flies. My guess is that this is not a critter built for anything else other than flying.
  • He is mostly membrane; lots of wing and sail fins. His bones are porous like a bird’s. His ribs flatten out when he flies (like those gliding snakes).
  • HYDROGEN SACKS. In addition to huge-ass wings, Ancalagon is buoyed up by several large sacks of flammable, lighter-than-air gas. He also jets and ignites it from glands in his mouth, making  lovely blue fireballs. 
  • Despite all the wingspan, he is a glider. He does not have much musculature to flap with. Or crawl with, for that matter. He is a one-way-flight dragon; he launches himself off the highest peak of the Iron Mountains, uses volcanic thermals and fire to get lift, and then just steers. If he lands or falls somewhere he can’t jump off, he’s about as useless as a fruit bat on the ground. 
  • Ancalagon has iridescent black hide, but he is so lightly built that you can see his blood vessels and organs through his skin. This gives him a reddish glow when he’s in daylight. 
  • Big googly lemur eyes, filled with spooky, soul-stealing malice; the better to see you with.
  • Like the fell beasts used by the Nazgul, he’s got some sonic weaponry that’s inadvisable to be in close range of. 
  • There are many flaws in his design. He’s not Melkor’s most adaptable babu; he probably wouldn’t survive on his own for very long. Basically, he’s a big creepy fire-bomber and intimidation tool. When he’s killed by unexpected-flying-Valar-ship-canonfire or whatever, he falls right on top of Angband like 100 tons of wet tissue paper, and it is no fun for anybody. 

-The Results!-

Prepare yourselves ladies and gentlemaiar…. 

The Winning Number is (perhaps appropriately):  66 

– celebrimderp! You shall receive the gift of Dark Lord Smooches! 😀 (message me to let me know who/what to draw being smooched!)

The Runner up!: 85

–sighros! Runner up, prepare to run! 😀  (Or message me to tell me who should get their heels nipped by pursuing wolves!) 

The Finalist is: 47

– aulendil-mairon! Congratulations! You (or whoever you wish to bequeath it to) are now the proud recipient of an Angband Hall-Pass! 

Thank you everyone for participating! And remember, you are all winners in my heart! UwU ❤ 

Have some rings! 

make it rain!

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