
Gold and Silver Damascened Shield, Iran, 19th century

Now Rochallor had stayed beside the king until the end, but the wolfes of Angband assailed him, and he escaped from them because of his great swiftness, and ran at last to Hithlum, and broke his heart and died © The Grey Annals
“After 13 years I did it once more. I am not really satisfied with the result and it was not easy to draw… But hope that in 13 years I will draw it much more like the picture inside my head.”

A simple flyer for Finrod Felagund’s construction service in First Age Middle-Earth! Warning: Spoilers here for both Beren and Luthien’s story and a few slight spoilers for The Children of Hurin.
“I’VE NEVER HAD ANY COMPLAINTS"

I was going to draw Mélamírë reuniting with her father, but somewhere along the way eighties Celebrimbor showed up and I don’t even know what’s going on anymore.
Ooooh, there are her earrings, that benign little mithril ring, and the watchful Eye! Very cool!*
As for eighties Celebrimbor, he was a dark-haired post-doc with a Duran Duran style coif and brilliant blue eyes; we shared lab space back in my grad school days. :^)
And here’s my badly drawn cracktasitcal cartoon of Sauron after his extraction from that benign little ring on Mél’s forefinger: smokin’ cigars and knocking back shots of whisky with Bilbo whilst Olórin looks on:

someone turn this into a fic, i’ll pay you with my endless love

Christmas Island Frigatebird
(Fregata andrewsi) – photo by Prayitno Goentaro
Listed as critically endangered by the IUCN.