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Hey'alllllllllllll @figbythistle is my art blog now! I'll probably post the art I've already put on this blog over there to keep things tidy, follow there for more arts stuff and Tolkien content!!!! Here's some Merry:)

Merry Brandybuck:) He's kinda suspicious of this "Strider" fellow...

Inspired by THIS lovely fic:

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I can't pass up a good Star Trek pun.

Now to find Khandles for my hannukiah this year

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Since late 2021, I had been working on illustrating a Chinese version of The Hobbit. The book was published in August 2024.

After all these years, a dream came true. ❤️

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Aredhel and Eol(in Celtic-style clothes, which is my canon style for Sindar ♥ ♥ ) made with ballpoint pen and cheap markers, the best medium for clothing design *_*

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Pompeii

Watercolors in situ by Luigi Bazzani -late 19th century, early 20th century

At the time Bazzani was working at Pompeii, the newly excavated remains still retained their original vibrant paint.

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Need y’all to know that in the 1970’s a letter to the editor was published in Daily Telegraph where the author offhandedly used the phrase “Tolkien-like gloom” to describe an area with barren trees and JRRT himself wrote back an incensed rebuttal at the use of his name in a context that suggested anything negative about trees.

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Jacynth Hope-Simpson (editor) - The Hamish Hamilton Book of Witches - Hamish Hamilton - 1966 (illustrated by Krystyna Turska)

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Tol Brandir by Alan Lee

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I want to redo ROP Elrond eventually - I'd rather give him visual themes of feathers, stars, and sky rather than having him look so leafy - but I had a lot of fun with this sketch and experimenting with the background!

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My doodle for TRSB challenge. I wanted to draw two most unpropable Middle-earth characters together. So here is Lobelia Sackville-Baggins and Finrod Felagund ♡ I think their conversation topic is ancient tableware ♡

Well, more on this topic will be posted by @actual-bill-pots, who claimed this ♡

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1. 19th century sealskin thong, Greenland

2. Pazyryk swan made of felted reindeer wool, circa 400 BCE, Siberia

3. Child’s hat with bird, nalbound cotton and wool, 1000–1476 CE, Chancay culture, Peru

4. Knitted cotton sock from Egypt, 1000-1200 CE

5. Sidonian flask shaped like a date, 1st-2nd century CE, Syria or Palestine

6. World’s oldest surviving pants, woven wool, circa 1300-1000 BCE, China

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I'm reading The Silmarillion and loving every page of it. It's lighting my brain on fire with ideas for art and character design.

This is Nessa of the Valar, "lithe and fleetfooted", dancing on the lawn of Valimar with the wind in her hair. I tried to make her deer-like - the shape of her ear, the freckles, her delicate limbs. I used a detail brush instead of a pen to ink her, so I had a better "flow" of movement.

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Here's how the gold paint looks in the light:) He's been sitting on my dining room table being blindingly bright (as he should be).

My take on Gil-Galad's design from Rings of Power. Yes his entire outfit is done in shiny gold paint, I needed an excuse to use it:)

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My take on Gil-Galad's design from Rings of Power. Yes his entire outfit is done in shiny gold paint, I needed an excuse to use it:)

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wretchedly perish then said cicero wednesday

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A Roman Fresco (50-79 AD), from Pompeii.

It represents a woman next to a man, perhaps her beloved, he seems to be teaching her to play a type of lyre called kithara, in a very intimate attitude.

British Museum