Jeweled Cover of the Lindau Gospels, possibly Salzburg, last quarter eighth century. On: The Lindau Gospels, in Latin Switzerland, Abbey of St. Gall, between 880 and 899. Manuscript on vellum. Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Tag: Queue Sera Sera
Bryn Celli Ddu Burial Chamber, Anglesey, North Wales, 14.1.18.
Built around five thousand years ago, this is still s structure of both beauty and ingenuity. I’ve visited so many times but on a wet Saturday afternoon in January, the site was very busy with visitors. Glad I paid it a visit again.
Medieval Gold ‘He Who Sent Me Shall Never Deceive in Love’ Posy Ring with Sapphire, 14th Century AD
A gold finger ring comprising a cusped D-section hoop with shoulders formed as facing beast-heads with triangular bezel, inset faceted sapphire; two lines of Anglo-French Lombardic text to the hoop ’+ QVI.CA.MENVEIA: / IA:DAMOR:NE.TRICERA’, translates to ‘He who sent me shall never deceive in Love’. 7.88 grams, 26mm overall, 18.66mm internal diameter
~ Pair of earrings with female head pendants.
Date: late 2nd century B.C.- A.D. 2nd century
Medium: Gold, garnet
I have’nt posted my art in a while so….
Here’s Maedhros.
They stood outside, filled savagery and terror. Arthur Rackham, from Irish fairy tales, by James Stephens, London, 1920.
Greek Corinthian Gold Myrtle Wreath, 330-250 BC
In ancient Greece, wreaths made from plants like laurel, ivy, and myrtle
were awarded to athletes, soldiers, and royalty. Similar wreaths were
designed in gold and silver for the same purposes or for religious
functions. This example conveys the language of love.
A plant sacred to the goddess Aphrodite, myrtle was a symbol of love.
Greeks wore wreaths made of real myrtle leaves at weddings and banquets,
received them as athletic prizes and awards for military victories, and
wore them as crowns to show royal status.
By the Hellenistic period (300–30 BC), the wreaths were made of gold
foil; too fragile to be worn, they were created primarily to be buried
with the dead as symbols of life’s victories. The naturalistic myrtle
leaves and blossoms on this wreath were cut from thin sheets of gold,
exquisitely finished with stamped and incised details, and then wired
onto the stems. Most that survive today were found in graves.
Schneiderhöhnite – Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia
Gimli and two elven kids in the West
I’m sure that Gimli would spend a lot of time with kids telling stories about Middle Earth and they would listen to him with a big interest. Because they really like him and he tells stories more emotionally and spectacularly than Legolas or Olorin.
Nerdanel
It’s been three years since I drew her the first time.
It was nice to draw an updated version ^^Please don’t use without permission
silmarillion experiments 1.:
Aulë/Mahal,
Seven Fathers of the Dwarves
and Eru
Ilúvatar blessing ♥
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