Tag: silmarillion

@admirable-mairon requested I draw my Annatar, so here he is! I finally drew the old silver fox himself, as he appears in Blood, Song, and Silver.

Gosh, he looks so trustworthy and wise! I’m absolutely going to trust him with all my dark secrets and the greatest power known to elves and men! 

(Turns out I suck real bad at drawing plants, so for reference, he’s surrounded by branches of holly– because Eregion– and branches of a yew tree, which traditionally represents death and has deceptively similar looking berries.) 

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.  

–To see a version of Salgant with some very cute baby dragons, sign up for my Patreon and get this and lots of other high resolution bonus art at the $1 tier and above! 🙂

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Listen to the Playmoss playlist: The End of All Things by TheOtherWesley
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A Playlist for the Dagor Dagorath and the end of Arda Marred.

Helium Vola – Les habitants du soleil (reprise)
VNV Nation – Carbon
Enya – Pax Deorum
Chava Alberstein – Chad Gadya
Loreena McKennitt – ‘Lullaby’ 
Martin Romberg – A Elbereth Gilthoniel
Shearwater – The Hunter’s Star
Arvo Pärt,- Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Eric Whitacre – “When David Heard”
Hans Zimmer & Joshua Bell – Fire
Helium Vola – Napuctun speaks
Austin Wintory –  I was Born for This
The Oh Hellos – Caesar

Source: playmoss.com

Songs of Power – RivkaZ 2017

You guys, the wizard duel between Finrod and Thû is one of my favorite scenes in the whole legendarium, I love it so, so much. :’) 

This picture was a WIP in my art folder for a year and while I always meant to finish it, I didn’t plan on spending as much time on it as I did. It’s still super rough, and I may revisit it again sometime in the future when I’m inspired, but for now I’ve gotta move on. XD 

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.  

–The Noldor– 
Tears Unnumbered Ye Shall Shed

1) Bottom of the River– Delta Rae
2) Iron – Woodkid
3) God’s Gonna Cut You Down– Kevin Lovatt
4) Twa Corbies – Steeleye Span
5) Even Gods Do– Thea Gilmore
6) Kingdom (Restoration) – VNV Nation
7) Devil’s Backbone – Civil War
8) Cam Ye O’er Frae France – Steeleye Span
9) Cain – Cousin Marnie
10) Blood– OSI
11) Exile– Enya
12) Carbon– VNV Nation
13) The Foggy Dew – The Chieftains
14) Seven Devils – Florence + The Machines
15) The Humbling River– Puscifer 

Source: 8tracks.com

Angband Model V2 – RivkaZ 2015

As you can see, I’ve worked on this model pretty extensively since my last post. This is really my first big Sketchup project, so I’ll admit that half of my time was spent fixing my own beginner’s blunders. >_>; However– I’m happy with the way it turned out, and I probably quadrupled my modeling skills whilst trying to hammer this colossal beast into shape, so hopefully my next project will go a little smoother. XD

On the third row up from the bottom you can see Hurin’s Chair, and the view from the point on the battlements where if you were standing around, say, playing a harp, you could see Maedhros’s shackle. 

Mr. and Mrs. Helpful Orc have agreed to pose outside on the draw bridge to give us an idea of scale. Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Orc! You may return to your posts now. 

Palette Meme: The Iron Hell– RivkaZ 2015

 *wheeeeze* DONE.  _(:p 」∠)_

This is what I picture Angband looking like from the top-down. Most of the fortress is subterranean, making this not even the upper most third of the map. Near the top of the center spire is where you will find Hurin’s chair. (Other above-ground structures that didn’t make it into the picture:  Dragon hatchery and stable, Maethros’s shackle, and secret passage ways.)

I want my Angband to look like it was a solid, fugly square brick of a fortress that has been retrofitted with spare Utumno-parts and upgraded to suit all Melkor’s Beleriand-Conquering needs. 

 It’s a mix of designs: impossibly grand scaled pseudo-gothic architecture (to let you know that a Vala lives there), with battlements that are still the old no-frills anti-Oromë defense system left over from the Utumno days, all stuck in a blender with a bunch of lopsided spikes and melty Giger-esque doom. 

Sauron provided the architecture and floor plan (complete with indoor plumming and practical considerations like “where do we put all the orcs”), and Melkor provided the asymmetry, the underground caverns, and the carelessly assembled volcanic hellscape.

Grindr (G-R-N-DR): the gay Khazad finder app, not to be confused with Grinder (G-R-D-N-R), an app that tells you the Mohs hardness level of various minerals. 

OkayOromë: an online dating platform that features compatibility tests for Avari in love. Prospective partners’ profiles are compared and their percentages of Friend, Enemy, Kinslayer, and Relative, are revealed. Comes with a mobile app, solely for iOS. 

Adult Kinfinder: a similar site for Quenya speakers, with advanced features that allow you to determine the culture, age, death-status, and global placement of your dateable cousins. Mobile app available on multiple platforms. 

Moot Roulette: a chat service that connects you randomly with other online Ents. It’s mostly all men though. 

Pint.rest: Aggregate blog for hobbits. Allows members to share and reblog favorite pub pictures, locations, menus, open/close times, etc. Largely consists of snapshots of food, gossip, and trending hashtags. (“@lobelia where are my spoons???”  #SackvilleScum) 

Grondr: Grindr for gay orcs. 

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