Tag: armor design

Sauron’s Masks: Tol-in-Gaurhoth – War of the Last Alliance– RivkaZ 2017

“There now he brooded in the dark, until he had wrought for himself a new shape; and it was terrible, for his fair semblance had departed forever when he was cast into the abyss"

I wanted to showcase my idea for different battle masks worn by Sauron; one for striking fear in the elves of Sirion, and one to disguise his misshapen visage after the Akallabeth. I thought it would be poetic to see his fair form to wear a fearsome mask while his monstrous form wears a beautiful one; maybe for the sake of vanity, or simply to be recognizable after his imperfect re-embodiment. It seems like something the leaders of the Last Alliance who knew him from before would comment on, while facing him down on the slopes of Orodruin.  

Warming up from my little hiatus by playing around with a different armor design for Thû. I’ve wanted to give him a spooky menpō/somen faceplate for a while now. :3 

I’m torn because I love the look of studded leather and iron scales, but as, y’know, Sauron the forge maia, I’m not sure he’d need to conserve metal for his personal protection; there’s no reason he couldn’t go steel-clad from head to foot. So this is maybe just a light armor used for intimidation. …But that makes me want to make it EVEN MORE SPOOKY and ridiculous. XD
This is my problem; I’m never 100% sold on any armor I’ve drawn for Sauron. Every time I finish a design I end up thinking “OOH! I shoulda done ____ instead!”  I foresee many redraws until I figure out what I’m doing.  >w>

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