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line work for a watercolor painting I'm planning of Feanor at Alqualonde. I did this sketch a while back, but as it looks like it may be a while before I can get around to finishing the painting, I thought I'd put it up now.pencil on cold press paper
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Β Now this works quite well as Feanor, but for some reason this particular image puts me more in mind of Curufin, possibly upon realising that he has not just been beaten by a 'mere' Mortal, but that said mortal is now riding off with his horse! (not to mention just about everything except his underwear).
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this could really be anyone in feanor's line (or eol's, for that matter)
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Β Arguably, but I'd still like to think of him as Curufin whom I definitely see as his father's son and sometimes rather prone to resent the fact that he'll never be his father's equal (I actually read something over at the Silmarillion Writer's Guild - in the References section, not the actual fan-fiction - that made me rethink my take on the character, although I shall not bore you with a further ramble except at your own request).Β
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Wow!
Now, THAT is our proud rageball. I've been seeing too many bishi prettyboy Feanors.
(Nothin' against perty bishis in their place, but for FEANOR? No frakkin' way!)
Impressed,
--Nonie
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I'm not much for skinny, pretty boy underwear-model elves. it doesnt seem to coincide with their description as noble lords and mighty warriors (mostly in the seven foot range no less)
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I don't mind the fairly lean and smooth-faced elves, since that's not out of line with Tolkien's, but he did give them an innate majesty rather than making 'em lipstick models.
For me, the biggest annoyance in some elf-art is those goddamned pointed ears long enough to stick out over the tops of their heads--or over their shoulders sideways, if horizontal.
Tolkien never mentioned pointed ears on *anybody*; I don't mind the movies' version on elves because they're not egregious, but giving 'em to hobbits OR drawing 'em a foot long or more.... Pfeh!
This opinionated opinion brought to you by the opinionated Nonie. So there.
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nothing I like more than a good opinionated opinion.
Actually I wrote a journal entry specifically on the subject of elvish ears that spawned a good bit of back and forth link , you might enjoy it (it seems we are largely in agreement about the subject, though actually I think a good case can be made, based on tolkien's writing, for pointed ears on hobbits)
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You know, he's always been my favourite character. His stare could be even more intense, I know that it may not be easy but I'd say even a bit manic. Maybe if you open his left eye a little more?
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I've played around with the facial proportions a little since taking this scan (though by now it's had its first paint wash and is as such not suitable for display)
always been one of my favorites too. I love how simultaneously critical and praising his reccounting is in the silm, Tolkien's most morally mixed character.
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I don't think they have to, and with the woodelves I tend to picture rounder, softer faces and bodies, but for the noldor, I usually visualize them all a little longer and more severe in their proportions (I picture them as being somewhat like the two different northern european concepts of elves, with the mighty High-elves having that loftiness and severity of the old norse "alfir" whereas the woodelves are more like the flighty, intangible celtic notion of the "fair folk") Feanor in particular - the creative genius and supreme asshole that he is - I picture as a very intense looking, long-framed nordic 'dolicho' type, a real nietzschian superman type (albeit dark haired) I've often related him in my mind to the protagonists of Ayn Rand's books, who are always described as these tall, hard-faced, ferocious individual types.
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haha okay, well not a big surprise that the elf was a douche
i dont know a bout celtic elf but that little i know of my own folk lore(im Swedish)is that elves are white and magical and unreliable in some ways,i know there is this old one about the elf maidens dancing a ring dance on midsummerseve, and if you come to close or something they would spit diseases on you.
and i think its Alfr in old norse
well if you start reading about elfs and such in norse folklore you kinde feel lost at sea, atleast i do, because it never ends you read about this one and then 3 other creature appears and their almost the same.
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