The first of the Silmarillion themed days! As you can imagine, the Sil gets more than one day of October in my “Heroes of Page and Screen”.
Coming up tomorrow: Something from a Fantasy trilogy so obscure that I barely found anything online to read up on quotes. I’m not used to that. *_*
UUUGH LOOK AT THIS BABE ❤
Ottoman dagger,19th century, steel, jade, gold, emerald, diamond, ruby.
the craftsman of the Gwaith-i-Mirdain
“Only in Eregion, which Men called Hollin, did Elves of Noldorin race establish a lasting realm beyond the Ered Luin. Eregion was nigh to the great mansions of the Dwarves that were named Khazad-dûm, but by the Elves Hadhodrond, and afterwards Moria. From Ost-in-Edhil, the city of the Elves, the highroad ran to the west gate of Khazad-dûm, for a friendship arose between Dwarves and Elves, such as has never elsewhere been, to the enrichment of both those peoples. In Eregion the craftsmen of the Gwaith-i-Mírdain, the People of the Jewel-smiths, surpassed in cunning all that have ever wrought, save only Fëanor himself”
JRR Tolkien The Silmarillion
Glaurung, the Father of Dragons. My Mythology instructor’s reaction was just, “you just really like dragons” and I was like…”yah”
Bryn Celli Ddu, a Neolithic passage tomb in Anglesey, Wales by [Scott]
‘–she was attacked by the King’s Men and fled up the stairwell to the Temple; where she fell before the statue of Morgoth.. ” – Ardie
~ Gold snake finger ring.
Place of origin: England
Period: Romano-British
Date: A.D. 1st-2nd century
Glaurung mesmerizing Niënor
Whenever I saw the dragons ilustrated by Tolkien, I couldn’t help but seeing the resemblance with eastern dragons. Mostly because of those long and stylized bodies. I know he probably had in mind regular european dragons, but I thought it would be fun depicting Glaurung differently than usual.
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