#silmarill

[chechula]

More, more dramatic Silmarillion art ♥ (+ my coworker lent me some fancy watercolors :3 )

[ylieke]

[spacesunderstairs]

The most unrealistic part of the Silmarillion is the part where Feanor, master craftsman and creative person(tm), finishes a project and is 100% happy with it and thinks it's perfect.

[aamuusva]

Silmaril

[verecunda]

I like the thought that Celebrimbor puts a Fëanorian star on the Doors of Durin because it means he's made peace with his past; it's a sign he's let go of any bitterness and resentment he might - however justifiably! - hold towards his father and the rest of his family, and he's moving on.

But at the same time, I really like the idea that it's also a statement. That star is the device of the House of Fëanor, and he is the last member of that house still living in Middle-earth. And by putting the star on the West-gate, what he's saying, effectively, is: "I am the House of Fëanor now, I decide what our legacy in Middle-earth is to be, and I say this is what that house now stands for: friendship, inclusivity, co-operation, trust, peace."

And I don't think those two ideas are mutually exclusive. Often laying old ghosts is the necessary prelude to making that kind of positive change. And I do love the idea of Celebrimbor as someone who is constantly, consciously trying to do better.

[maironsmaid]

Y'all need to see this omfg this is so good holy shit I'm so normal about this

[velvet4510]

We all know Fëanor as “the guy obsessed with his Silmarils” but it’s quite something to remember that when he first discovered Morgoth had ransacked his house, he wasn’t even thinking about how the Silmarils were most likely stolen. He immediately searched the debris not for the jewels, but for his dad.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

Here's a little silmaril-based commission I finished up recently! some progress shots etc. We start with the text and blocking out of the borders:

then it's all about the colour and layering and detail etc etc

I did a custom blend for the metallic here, it came out pretty okay! The idea is that when the light doesn't hit the page, it's a sort of pale blue, but the shimmer suspended in the ink is a gold-base, so it changes colour in the light:

once again, I'm not going to make prints of this commission since I'm not looking for a case with the tolkien estate

[victorie552]

My hot take is that Maedhros and Maglor would not be all that suprised that Silmarils burned them - they know what they did.

But. They would, completely irrationally, be suprised that Silmarils burned their brother.

[tophlovesbeer]

[red-raven-reading]

[chechula]

Feanor and Silmarilli...the light captured inside gems is of tree origin so I wanted to draw it spread like branches ♥ (it was only a doodle where I tried that light-spreading idea. But my sis saw it, liked it(I guess?), redrawn anatomy.... and made Feanor so good-looking that I had to finish it :D )

[ylieke]

[istaricelebelasse]

…neither law, nor love, nor league of swords, dread nor danger, not Doom itself, shall defend him from Fëanor, and Fëanor's kin

Fate of the Silmarils and Oath of Feanor

Hand embroidery

[whiteladyofithilien]

Can you imagine the irrepressible delight that Aulë had when Legolas rocked up to the Undying Lands with a Dwarf.

[echo-bleu]

Okay but. A movie/show adaptation of the Silmarillion where we never ever see the Silmarils. The closest we ever come is when Maedhros and Maglor steal them, in a chest, and we only see light coming out of the chest, never the stones.

They're such a beautiful light that nothing would do them justice, right? The whole scene of Beren cutting out the Silmaril is focused on Lúthien singing and Morgoth's hand twitching while Beren is muttering off-screen ("Manwë's butt, the cursed knife broke!"). Fëanor announces the creation of the Silmaril in public but he's seen from the back the entire time, we never see him wear them. Beren's severed hand comes out of Carcharoth's stomach with the fist closed around the stone, we can only glimpse the light.

We similarly never properly see Morgoth, or any of the Valar, they're always hooded/we only see their hands or feet or silhouette from very far away. We see no more of the two Trees than representations in stone or paintings, and the whole Valinor part is probably narrated by a voice-over, and maybe even entirely told through a visual framing that means we never see it either (paintings? theatre play? puppet show? idk there are plenty of options).

At the end we're left to wonder if the Silmarils ever really existed, if the Valar really waged war, or if it's all just a story the elves told to justify their endless wars...