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elbenherzart:

I started this piece back in January
but didn’t work on it for a while, since I was either too exhausted
,or to afraid of screwing it up. Interior Paintings combine all the
things I’m afraid of and not good in. But you can only improve if you
get out of your comfort zone, right? 😀

So what’s this? It
originally started out as a random sketch of a random anvil, because
I wanted to practice prop design. This turned into a full interior,
then into an elven inspired smithy and then into Celebrimbors Smithy.
Celebrimbor is a character of Tolkien, the elf that forged the Rings. I never played Shadows of Mordor and I have no idea if there
are any official concepts of his smithy. Couldn’t find any. This is
just my own take on it, tho I included the hammer he has with him in
the game.

I really fought my way through this and got
mentally exhausted by this piece. I wonder if it gets easier some
day?

Source: elbenherzart

aredhels:

moodboard: queen beruthiel

Berúthiel lived in the King’s House in Osgiliath, hating the sounds and smells of the sea and the house that Tarannon built below Pelargir “upon arches whose feet stood deep in the wide waters of Ethir Anduin;” she hated all making, all colours and elaborate adornment, wearing only black and silver and living in bare chambers, and the gardens of the house in Osgiliath were filled with tormented sculptures beneath cypresses and yews. She had nine black cats and one white, her slaves, with whom she conversed, or read their memories, setting them to discover all the dark secrets of Gondor, so that she knew those things “that men wish most to keep hidden,” setting the white cat to spy upon the black, and tormenting them. No man in Gondor dared touch them; all were afraid of them, and cursed when they saw them pass.

Source: aredhels

theoldstone:

Toadstones are mythical stones or gems
thought to originate from the heads of toads. In reality, a toadstone is simply
bufonite that formed from the button-like teeth of Lepidotes, an extinct
species of fish from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

In ancient
times, people assumed that because toads had poison glands in their skin, they
must also carry their own antidotes and took this in the form of a magic stone.
For that reason, toadstone were supposed to be an antidote to a number of
different poisons, and whenever someone was bitten or stung by a poisonous
something-or-other, a toadstone would be rubbed on the wound. European
jewellers also set the stones into magical rings and amulets until the 18th
century, calling them “stones that are perfect in form.”

songs-of-the-east:

Scenes from the 2016 World Nomad Games hosted in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan. The World Nomad Games brings athletes from various countries, primarily from the Central Asian region and Russia, to participate in sports native to the Eurasian Steppe. The Eurasian Steppe was home to various nomadic peoples particularly the Iranic-speaking Scythians and Sarmatians, who were a source of fear for the ancient Greeks due to their warriorlike nature and great horse-riding skills; including their mastery of horseback archery. Both groups are believed to have originated in the Eurasian Steppes, but their settlements ranged from China to Poland, and because of this they greatly impacted the genetic pool and cultures of a number of different groups in Eastern Europe and Central Asia such as the people of the Caucasus, Slavs, Turkic people, and other modern Iranic people. The Sarmatians in particular were famed by Greek historians for their female warriors and rulers that inspired the stories of the Amazons. 

feanope:

Character Posters → Manwë Súlimo

But when the great Gods and all their folk were armed, then Manwë climbed into his blue chariot whose three horses were the whitest that roamed in Oromë’s domain, and his hand bore a great white bow that would shoot an arrowlike a gust of wind across the widest seas. 

—The Book of the Lost Tales, Part I

For my fellow Manwë Stans @thulimo & @nyarnamaitar –

❥ u

Source: feanope

stephescamora:

Draft for a portrait of Vana & Oromë
This was suppose to just be a quick sketch for a warm up today but I kept adding more and started to really like it. I was excited to draw these two again cause Oromë is one of my favorite of the valar to draw and I love him and Vana together (also Nahar🐴).
I’ve been trying to search for designs I did of them a year or two ago that I really liked so I was struggling to remember and put it in here. Hopefully when I do the final draft I’ll find it or come up with a better design.

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;A; look how beautiful they areeeeeeeeeeeee

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