Yep, I'm not over #TheSilmarillion yet, please bear with me 🙃
PS: is Celegorm supposed to have gold hair, or silver hair? I'm not sure, but since I already painted a golden version, it was time to try my hand at silver <;
Prints and other stuff on my RedBubble and Threadless
Coriander Flowers: Coriander flowers symbolize lust, as the seeds were used as an aphrodisiac in ancient Greece they were found in tombs of Egyptian pharaohs as far back as 5000 BC.
I thought the white and green flowers also fitting to him as it makes him blend in more with them than Maedhros and Maglor´s flower, since he is a hunter, who learned under Orome. I also let his hair be free from the usual ponytail just this once to make the wild come across. I think he puts a lot of his self value into what he is good at, such as hunting, fighting, tracking, looking like Miriel, etc, which also makes him fall so much quicker and harder than most of his brothers, but that also means that he can relate to Curufin better in a strange way, that leads to harmful loyalty and their downfall on both sides.
Skills and personal style evolve - sometimes I'm still charmed by my old works, but other times I can definitely notice improvements. I actually have both reactions while watching this (terrible) video about the #Feanorions from 10 or so years ago, and the ones I painted in the past few weeks.
I don't know how to explain, but the new versions feel more... "real" to me (especially #Ambarussa , for some reason)
Anyway, this is a reminder to myself that I can get better - and I thought it would be fun to show the "before" and "now " <;
Since the destiny of the Feanorians after their deaths is unknown (Feanor is said to be in Mandos, but such a thing is never specified for his sons) I decided to speculate a little about it. In Morgoth's Ring we are told that elves can reject Mandos call and remain in middle earth as spirits, and I wonder if such a thing didn't also happen to the Feanorians (either for their oath, like it happened to the mortal Men in the Pact of the Undead, or because they refuse to subject to the judgment of the Valar out of personal pride). Since the Wild Hunt appears to be a thing in the middle earth (Morgoth mimicking Orome in the shape of the Black Hunter, the Dead riding after Aragorn on his journey towards the Pelennor field, etc), i like to think that even after his death, Celegorm continued to keep his hunter occupation. He now stalks the night as a shadow, the sound of his phantom horn chilling the blood in the veins of everyone who's the misfortune to hear it...
(unfortunately due to the poor scanner quality, I've to cut the top of the painting. I hope to fix it in future)