Melian? The maia? She cowers in her woods; all her mind bent on hiding from me. You have a very active imagination if you think she could do me any harm.
And her daughter… What makes you think I wouldn’t crush the little lily under my foot? Or pluck her petals one by one? Her Ainur blood must make her very resilient. We might have decades together, she and I, before she wilted. What do you think of that, thou screeching kettle of a piper!
A lord in his finery ought not to be in the mines, the court says; but the mines are his, and he cares less for finery than for the secrets of the earth, and the solitude he finds beneath it.
((I will admit, I used the palette meme as a starting point, but I then I added a second palette, and then I threw both of those to the wind and used a gamut map instead— because I like to make things difficult for myself I guess? Anyway! Maeglin gives me a lot of trouble whenever I draw him, and this was no exception. His face and I battled long into the night, but I think I beat it into submission at last.
It seems I like drawing elves with shaved hair… I imagine Maeglin gave himself a Noldorin undercut after he came to Gondolin, because daddy would have hated it. ))
This intricately crafted dagger is among the best examples of ornamental steel chiseling from southeastern India, an area renowned for that art in the past. It may belong to a group of ornately decorated weapons that was preserved in the palace armory of Tanjore (present-day Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu) until the 1850s. The dagger is particularly noteworthy for the fineness of its workmanship, including complete figures in the round, and for retaining areas of original gilding, which is entirely missing on most surviving pieces of this type.
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.
Jack Storms, while also having a badass name, makes beautiful cold glass geometric sculptures. One of the few people who has this ability to grind out these beautiful geometric pieces. Each piece takes about 8 to 18 weeks to produce by cutting and splicing dichroic glass along with a shit-ton of grinding.
i destroyed an old digital camera and there was a tiny piece of this kind of glass inside i think….it’s kind of …nu-magic.
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.
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