"Would You Go Down With Your Ship?"

It’s the end of the year, so it’s time for a decade redraw! I chose my piece of Legolas after the battle at the gates of Mordor, which I first drew while in New Zealand in 2009. I liked the idea of him having lost/given away/destroyed his arm guard in the chaos of the previous few weeks. My redraw is sort of the next breath, when he looks up and realizes that the gates are down, the mountain is crumbling, and the tower of Barad-Dur with its fiery eye is no longer standing.

I know I haven’t posted as much LotR content since my own books started being published, but I have a lot of feelings about this character and this scene in particular. Legolas is practically the last Elf anybody would choose to go on a quest to save Middle Earth. He’s the least noble of any Elvish heroes, with absolutely no deeds to his name besides losing Gollum (oops), he’s from the least of the Elf-realms, and he has unremarkable lineage at best and bleak family history at worst. His grandfather led a disastrous charge at the Battle of Dagorlad that got his whole company killed (Book of Unfinished Tales), which Thranduil witnessed first hand. The passage that comes after is one of my favorites:

“[Thranduil] had seen the horror of Mordor and could not forget it. If ever he looked south, its memory dimmed the light of the sun, and though he knew that it was now broken and deserted and under the vigilance of the Kings of Men, fear spoke in his heart that it was not conquered forever: it would arise again.”

And now here’s his son, who almost certainly expected to die that day for a world he has no moral obligation to, surrounded by absolutely none of his kin, sitting on the threshold of Mordor, instrument of Sauron’s final destruction and LIKE? Come on, that’s a great arc.

Annie's nose is amazing! It should be the president of America! Annie's nose! Annie's nose! Annie's nose!

Definitely a better president than cheeto man

RomHun and PruHun <3 I'm in paradise

【ギルエリ】

I’m just saying though…

snk comics o vo

Happy birthday, Tooru! :D <3 Wszystkiego najlepszego! #OikawaBirthday2017

Was reading a little thing about Maglor settling in the Shire, and I was thinking about how they have all this genealogy and it’s just.

Hobbit: I can trace my parentage way back to [don’t want to think of an old hobbit nam]

Maglor: I don’t have a great-grandfather

Silmarillion headcanons #2

So yeah, I have some headcanons regarding the races of different tribes of Elves and Men that imo would work if we adapted Silm as a series or anime, as them being all white is... boring

Seriously: boring af and it's not acceptable

I have some reasonings for my decisions, but most of them were made only bc of THE ALMIGHTY VIBES

inb4: I would like to say that I wanted it to be as respectful to all the races as possible (their history and culture), but if I made a mistake of some sort, plz call me out

So let's start from the beginning

ELVES

Noldor

White

I made this decision tbh purely on the fact that the only red heads we know come from the Noldor (Mahtan, Maedhros, unoficially Nerdanel)

Also, let's be honest

They jumped on a ship in order to gain new territories and kingdoms..........

Vanyar

Black

It's not my headcanon and I've seen that one is popular in the fandom as Indis being black makes Fingolfin (&Finarfin, Lalwen and Findis) mixed and therefore allows us to have mixed!Fingon with his beautiful braids ♡

Also, I imagine that the 'golden hair issue' may be solved with:

Vanyar looking black but having golden hair. They are Elves, not human, they don't have to look the same

Ooooor (and I like this hc better)

Putting gold flakes or golden ribbons (ekhem Fingon) just being very fashionable among the Vanyar

Or both tbh

Teleri & Sindar

East Asian

I've put them together as one race in order to show the closeness of these two tribes (as Elwe and Olwe were brothers) to the viewer bc it would make the tragedy of Thingol finding out about Alqualonde even more dramatic

Also, traditional East Asian ships fit the artistry of Telerin ships soooo well

This one is Chinese

On top of that, I LOOOVE the sound of the Chinese bamboo flute and plz Daeron has to play it

Plus, beautiful flowy dresses (a hanfu in the pic)& jewelery from Eastern Asia would be PERFECT for Luthien, you can't disagree bc I'm right

And we can always make their hair white/gray/blond if we need to

MEN

House of Beör

White, cause it's said they resemble the Noldor afaik

Gotta be consequent

more Mediterranean tho to give them their iconic brown hair

House of Hador

Southern Asian

Numenor has to resemble this kind of architecture and give THE VIBES, okay??

Ughhhh the 'blond hair issue' again

Okay, idc how they are described, they can dye their hair I guess, making them white would ruin my concept

House of Haleth

Native Americans

I have one reason & one reason only!!!

NATIVE AMERICAN HALETH

Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk

Okay, that's it, hope you liked it, I don't have any ideas for the Elven Avari or Sylvan tribes, so gimme your hcs if u have any ♡