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Salgant, Lord of the House of the Harp – R.Wesley Nipper 2017

“…Behind them came the host of the Harp, and this was a battalion of brave warriors; but their leader Salgant was a craven, and he fawned upon Maeglin. They were dight with tassels of silver and tassels of gold, and a harp of silver shone in their blazonry upon a field of black; but Salgant bore one of gold, and he alone rode into battle of all the sons of the Gondolithrim, and he was heavy and squat.” –from The Book of Lost Tales vol. II

Maeglin’s friend, Eärendil’s babysitter, and my favorite soft, good boy, Salgant. Best elf, A+, canonically chubby, you-can’t-prove-he-didn’t-survive-the-Fall-of-Gondolin-by-being-adopted-and-made-Official-Dragon-Babysitter-by-Melkor, fight me.

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So busy i haven’t really posted art :’< Here’s some stuff I recently worked on~

– Ingwê: High King of the Elves and King of the Vanyar

The following sketches is one elf drawn and colored the way they would look in each kindred/clan of the elves. If you’ve been following my Silmarillion work you know that each of the kindreds is made of multiple races. For example in this pic: Glorfindel looks of asian descent and Ecthelion black but they are both considered Noldor in their world. The same can be found in any of the elf clans. The clans are seperated by physical and cultural differences I’ve designed for them that are not the same in our world. I wanted to show the racial diversity in each clan but I don’t have time because of a deadline for the book so I had to draw how one person would look in each clan instead of multiple. 😥

– The physical differences I’ve made for the three kindreds are:

Vanyar and Noldor are pretty much the same in body build and silmilar to the race of men (besides of course being taller in most cases). Vanyar however have naturally elongated heads and ears, their skin and hair are shades of gold (they literally shine like golden minerals), and their eyes are blue where they should be white.

Noldor look the most similar to humans the only difference is their ear shape (which is short, wide and more round than the others).

The Teleri come in different shades based off their faction, but in general their bodies are long (especially their necks) giving them a more “alien-like” look making them more lithe than the Noldor and Vanyar, and their ears are more pointed than the Noldor and curve in at the middle like a bat shape. The Falmari and Sindar skin colors are in bluish/gray tones, same for their hair but it also comes in white. The green and wood elves skin and hair tones are more human than the rest of the Teleri.

I’m not done with the Avari/dark elves yet so that’s why its not up there. But their design as far as their bodies goes is a mix of Teleri and Noldor but their eyes have a larger iris and a larger pupil for seeing in the dark.

I just want to rub this post all over my body (/o̧ wo̧ )/

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