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Remember that part in the Silmarillion where an unnamed servant of Melkor infiltrates the meeting of Edain and impersonates the chieftain Amlach and makes a speech about how the Elves are deceiving them and the Valar aren't real? We're never told anything about that servant, but here's what we know:

He's important enough to be sent on a pretty big important mission

He's a shapeshifter

He's a skilled actor able to impersonate someone amongst that person's friends and family without them realizing it's not him

He's charismatic and able to sway people with his words

He causes a feeling of dread and doom to fall over those who listen to him

Hmm, he might not have been named, but I'm pretty sure I know someone who meets every single one of those qualifications to a tee.

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big brother tyelko and ambarussa + sleeping huan 🐶🌾

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The ✨️Witch King✨️

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"for the most part"

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..."Por lo que cada embajada acudió con mas fuerzas de las convenidas; pero mayores fueron las enviadas por Morgoth y habia Balrogs presentes(...) Maedhros cayó en una emboscada y todos sus compañeros fueron muertos,pero el mismo fue llevado con vida a Angband"...

Full drawing!!

In fact the colors are very vivid, but you knows, camera problems. I really love this draw btw.

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No fortress is complete without Thuringwethil snoozing in the rafters

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I've realised that the political system of the Noldor actually is an informal elective monarchy though...!

With the caveats that (1) yeah, the process for choosing kings doesn't seem very formalised and (2) in practice the rulers have to be descendants of Finwë, but that sort of thing wasn't uncommon in some de facto elective monarchies irl

...and the expected level of obeisance to the chosen kings (low) is actually very like the state of things was in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, probably the best known example of such

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“Then he begun a long and secret labor, and he summoned all his lore, and his power, and his subtle skill, and at the end of all he made the Silmarils.” - the Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien

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little maedhros intrigued by his grandfather’s beard :)

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People live surrounded by an ocean, And a person has an ocean within

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It was, actually, better as a sketch... but I like colourful version too. I am still fascinated by this beautiful ginger colour which I use to draw Maitimo ( Eru bless VistaArtista markers )

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maedhros and maglor

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sneak peak of a work in progress painting of the morgoth and fingolfin 1v1 battle

still a lot of work to do

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Taniquetil.

Gouache on paper.

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My sister (10 yo, the gall of her) said this was disgusting; felt compelled to publicise it out of spite^