30 August 2011

Keeper of the Silmaril

Next in the series, we have Luthien, the most beautiful of the Children of Iluvatar:




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Queen of Doriath

I warned you I had started a series :)

I wanted these digital paints to not only reflect character, but also look as though they really had been hidden away for ages. That's the feeling Tolkien's myths always gave me: that they were real history buried beneath myth and story until no one could remember whether they had once been real...

So first up is another one of my favorite characters: Melian




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The Beginning of Days I

The first set of pages from my personal adaptation of Tolkien's, The Silmarillion:






The Beginning of Days II

Pages six through ten:








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The Beginning of Days III

Pages eleven through fifteen:








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