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Hello <3

First of all, I love your art very very much. And your Caranthir is my absolute favourite design of him ever.

Secondly, could I ask for Mairon and Celebrimbor? If it isn't too much.

Thank you for your time ^_^

Have a wonderful day <3

Ah yes, the King of Eregion and his 'counselor'. And thank you for the compliment <3 I'm so happy that so many people love my caranthir.

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Snowflakes are so beautiful…

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Need more stuff about the knights being past their prime and miserable please

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Need more stuff about the knights being past their prime and miserable please

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Ngl whenever someone describes Bedwyr as a "Welsh version of Lancelot," it makes me want to eat drywall. For several reasons.

One being that Bedwyr is his own character, and I feel like it borders on erasure to force him into a role he was never implied to have held. People assembled the pieces together that he was A.) handsome, B.) one of Arthur's closest companions, and just mashed the two together with the thought that "...and so he has to betray Arthur, right?" It feels very remiss towards his character, treating him as though he's so hollow or lacking that he could be replaced with something else without much substance being lost.

Plus, a cursory reading of Culhwch and Olwen will tell you that he was hella gay for Cai, okay.

Second is the idea implicit in such descriptions that post-Galfridian Arthuriana is the definitive version of the Arthurian narrative, that Welsh material is not worth engaging with on its own merits except to support post-Galfridian material.

Nobody's really saying Lance should be out here helping Arthur hunt Twrch Trwyth, for instance, but when it comes to Bedwyr, he's suddenly the "Welsh Lancelot"? Huh?

Also, if that's the case, isn't that a little backwards? Shouldn't we be calling Lancelot the "French Bedwyr" instead?

Third - and this one is most subjective - I kind of feel like if you absolutely had to go this route of adultery, there are other candidates. Bedwyr often gets pinged as Arthur's best friend, and not without reason, but in Culhwch Cai is his right-hand man who spearheads some of the tasks of Culhwch's quest. There's also Gwenhwyfar's praise of Cai in The Dialogue of Melwas and Gwenhwyfar to take into account. I've also seen Melwas and Medrawt floated as possible alternatives, but ehhhh, like. Why does Gwen need to cheat for everything to fall apart, necessarily?

I guess I'm also peeved by the idea that adultery is considered such a necessary ingredient to the psychological conflict at the heart of Camlan that we can't imagine Camlan without it... When it was the blow to Gwenhwyfar's dignity, coupled with the insults exchanged between Medrawt and Arthur, that resulted in Camlan.

There's also the historical context to consider. 536 AD being "the worst year to be alive" based on climate change from a volcanic eruption resulting in an apocalyptic fog, preventing crops from growing and shrouding the sun in an eerie mist for half a year. One can imagine the lawlessness and violence that abounded.

It doesn't escape my notice that the date roughly coincides with the dates for Camlan. The Annales Cambriae also contend that plague broke out in Britain and Ireland after Camlan, which would make sense: illness often follows famine.

I strongly feel that with a little imagination, those elements could be made just as psychologically compelling as an affair. Part of the reason I'm even writing this VN is to try and explore those avenues.

Kinda strayed from the main point there, but yeah :v

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Mairon is the big spoon

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isn’t this what really happened

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Can we all agree that Mairon was in charge of Utumno/Angband propaganda? He probably composed the orc battle hymns, wrote the pamphlets, and designed the posters.

I imagine it was all very much like this scene where Thu tried to make Beren and Finrod curse the Valar and praise Melkor 😌

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Guys, did you know that Melkor sells ice cream now?

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I wanted to experiment with rendering, I'll do this more often

YES MAIRON HAS A HOOHAA NO I WON'T ELABORATE

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Reference:

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henry doesnt google. he consults an obscure 14th-century manuscript no ones heard of and then judges you for not doing the same.

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watching the Moria scene in the fellowship

Y'know what, why not start the story at the beginning. So Eru Illuvatar-

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“Every character in the Silmarillion has so many names” factoid actually a statistical error. Most characters in the Silmarillion don’t have more than one or two names. Túrin Neithan Gorthol Agarwaen son of Úmarth Adanedhel Mormegil Thurin Wildman of the Woods Turambar Dagnir Glaurunga, who lived in a cave and has ten names, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

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For @feanorianweek day 4: Caranthir, the most underrated boy ever

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a collection of doodle requests from the discord last night

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