#zigur i really want to shoot on location in one of my family's small churches back in greece so

[hirazuki]

I’m finally getting ready to bite the bullet and start purchasing stuff for this guy, so I sketched out a couple of different options based on what I would buy/make  to see what combination of things I liked best -- and here are the final designs I settled on for Lieutenant of Angband, Annatar, and Zigur!

Some notes, for fun:

I adore all the armored First Age designs of him I’ve seen over the years, but I’ve somehow never been able to get behind the idea of a huge painted eye on his breastplate -- even though it looks extremely badass!! I just can’t picture him wearing his own insignia while serving Melkor (and not because Melkor would not tolerate it or anything; simply out of respect for him). Like, I can see it during the three ages while Melkor was imprisoned, especially if one headcanons that he initially would have been met with some resistance to taking up leadership in the interim and had to prove his worth; but not while Melkor was in Beleriand XD

I’m always torn between plate armor and scale mail for First Age, but I think I’ve finally decided to lean towards scale mail just because he had dragons available to him; I imagine he’d absolutely take advantage of the extremely useful and precious materials at his disposal ethically harvested, of course, they were just scales that shed naturally, they are his babies after all

I know the conventional interpretation of Annatar’s hair is a very pale, bright blond (which I’m guessing Shadow of Mordor has something to do with that), but I’ve always seen him as a warmer, deeper blond, kind of like honey. My version of Annatar has always been heavily influenced by Cedric from W.I.T.C.H.

Zigur I have no deep thoughts on; it’s just my byzantine/gothic heart going WILD XD