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The Battle of the Slopes of Orodruin

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ramblings under cut

as I painted a tiny copy of these bears and studied the original, I kept thinking that maybe the artist was trying to capture a real moment, an experience they had; being much too close to a large predator and feeling that fear/awe (and eventual relief)

each depiction has the same expression, the same intensity. they do evoke fear/awe, imo, with that dark shadow around the face and then the stark white around the eye. but I wonder if the artist needed to try again and again until the depiction felt like that moment they experienced

I wonder which one the artist liked best?

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"lord take all of faramirs suffering and give it to gollum" -samwise gamgee

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Lemons

Jose Escofet

1994

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Sunrise 🌅

Unfinished art I made of Findekano. I completely forgot I made it... I just found it in my folders of uhh November?….lol….

Him ✨✨✨

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relax time

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Your father and twin brother just died, and you were made chieftain of the Haladin, and now the weird elf lord in whose lands your people live is making what he thinks are f-me eyes at you.

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Johanna Mason my beloved 🪓

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wips ill never finish: Anairë tells Fingolfin she’s going back to Tirion

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songs of the long defeat (8/?) - Írimë and Ñolofinwë, F.A. 400, the siege of angband

valor and death

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the other elves welcoming Legolas in Valinor

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Argon’s first moonrise (he won’t live to see the sun)

(A colored version of one of the sketches posted here.)

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this horse is depressed

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that’s not the way i usually colour my arts but i’m quite happy with this one

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@arwenindomiel, for the prompt "oaths" I chose to do a bride Celebrian, ready to bind herself to Elrond forever ( i'm not jealous).

I took inspiration from this . Thanks again @valar-did-me-wrong for the link

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it’s my bday and this maedhros is my gift to myself 🤣🤣

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don't cry, okay? boeotian black figure kantharos with duckies on it