Once again I'm returning after a long absence (had to finish my Bachelor's, lots to do at the summer job etc.) But I got dragged back into the Silm Fandom without my own doing in the spring, because youtube started recommending me clips from the russian finrod musical, which, do watch, it is a must for any finrod/beren&luthien/fantasy musical fans, honestly (
click here). There is even a new, distinct Lay of Leithian rock opera out just this year! Anyway, I am returning with rekindled silm enthusiasm and an obsession with Finrod Felagund.
I really need to catch up with the pod, I am somewhere in S4 I think? But it is hard to remember where, I'll have to find out through trial and error. Anyway, I thought I'd post some of the silm art i've done in the summer meanwhile ^^ OKAY ART DUMP TIME
A varda, bc on a recent silm re-read i noticed that man, i do love her. Followed by a (probably blasphemous) Eru, bc it got me thinking about how the powers, like, feel to me & what i imagine. But dangit now i wanna do all of them
Then I participated in a drawing challenge on lotr twitter, so it was mostly lord of the rings, but i did also draw the blue wizards again. Bc I just think they're neat. Just lately i also had the thought: what if they are makar and méassë, yknow, the discarded war-valar, but instead of just being deleted, they are maiar of oromës who then were like: fuck this we're coming down there melkor that's enough already ^^ Aanyway enough of me gushing about the blue wizards
And a classic bit of Russingon
I also this year for the first time managed to participate in TRSB (Tolkien reversed summer bang) a fanfic/fanart collab where the fanart serves as prompt for a fanfic, and I contributed these pieces, and got wonderful fanfics in return:
A Finrod during the Bragollach fic: (click
here to read on AO3, dragons, adventure, feeelings, song magic!)
A fic set in Belegost around the Union of Maedhros, here a Smith sending her son off to the war (click
here to read on AO3, a beautifully melancholic one)
And finally, a Luthien-centered fic set during the Quest for the Silmaril, but Luthien meets my favorite super super side character (guess who it is, whoo) and click
here to read it on AO3 (basically 1001 nights but luthien)
And finally I've come by this scene in my silm reread and it is just so goood omg.. (Just in time for the Silm Film Project to get to Fingolfins battle)
Okay that's it thanks for coming to my disorganised art dump, hope you enjoyed ^^