New and Updated Artwork

2024 Potluck Doodles by silmalope
Digital art of brightly illuminated Galadriel and Finrod.

Assorted prompt fills for the 2024 Potluck bingo boards, to varying degrees of completion! :)

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Potluck Bingo
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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A Collection of Maps Exhibiting the Changing Political Landscape in Beleriand by Artano
Map of Beleriand showing the general distribution of the Teleri, Noldor, and Petty-dwarves soon after the Elves crossed into Beleriand

Created for the 'Geography/Maps/Places' prompt on the "Tolkien meta" bingo board, this is a collection of maps marked with the various people groups showing how they arrived and moved about Beleriand.  This collection focuses specifically on the time from the arrival of the Teleri, Vanyar, and Noldor before they went to Aman up to the distribution of the various kingdoms after the Flight of the Noldor, when they arrived in Middle-earth and settled there.

Major Characters: Sindar, Noldor, Vanyar, Petty-dwarves, Dwarves, Orcs, Falathrim, Doriathrim, Laiquendi, Ungoliant, Green-elves
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Potluck Bingo
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Valier & colours by daughterofshadows
Abstract art of orange and red lines on a dark red background

Semi-abstract arts representing the queens of the Valar.

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Potluck Bingo
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Annatar in Mandos by AdmirableMonster
A painted image of a colored figure like a butterfly streaked with shadows over a night sky, with a halo-like object over its head

Annatar in Mandos, as described by Fingon in Chthonion's masterful Harrowing series

Major Characters: Sauron
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Laughter and Mourning by silmalope
Thumbnail image of Nienor and a bloodstained flower.

Laughter and Mourning, the daughters of Húrin. An illustration for the 2024 Orctober challenge prompt “eyes”.

Major Characters: Nienor, Lalaith
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Orctober
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Shadow's Scribbles 2024 by daughterofshadows
Asexual Pride moodboard: Three rows of images. Row 1: An image of shiny, black, wrinkled cloth. An image of black marble with white veins. An image of white smoke on a black background. 4 coloured boxes in vertical order in black, grey, white and purple, symbolising the ace pride flag. Row 2: An image of white marble with grey veins. An image of a black forest with mist rising above it. An image of grey leather. An image of grey clouds. Row 3: An image of purple and pink clouds with moons hidden behind it.

My collection of Scribbles & Drabbles Arts for 2024!

Major Characters: Círdan, Belladonna Took Baggins, Fëanor, Celegorm, Lúthien Tinúviel, Nerdanel, Rog, Penlod
Major Relationships: Fëanor/Nerdanel
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Against Expectations- complimenting art by PeasantPlayer
A orc and a elve. The elve gives the orc water

A orc and a elf. The elf hands the orc water

 

 

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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On the Way Home by silmalope
Thumbnail image of Lúthien and young Túrin.

Doriath Family Reunion AU: Túrin twisted his ankle in the woods, and big sister Lúthien is giving him a ride home. :)

Major Characters: Lúthien Tinúviel, Túrin, Beren
Major Relationships: Beren/Luthien, Lúthien & Túrin
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Behind God’s Back by silmalope
A thumbnail image showing the city of Gondolin.

A short comic for the Sept-Oct 2024 Idiomatic challenge. The stifling environment of Eöl’s “dim halls, silent and secret” contrasts with young Maeglin’s idealized vision of Gondolin as a divine, sunlit paradise, home to the godlike Noldor. 

Major Characters: Maeglin, Turgon, Aredhel, Idril, Eöl
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Idiomatic
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Legacy by silmalope
Young Elwing wears the Nauglamir and Ring of Barahir.

When Doriath fell, Elwing was too young to remember the family she lost. When she wears the Nauglamir, the Silmaril, and the Ring of Barahir for the first time, she feels the burden of their legacy.

Major Characters: Elwing
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Celegorm - Treelight in his eyes by Gabriel
Celegorm- Tyelkormo - The light in his eyes

Character portrait of Celegorm Feanorian

Major Characters: Celegorm
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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TRSB24: Until the Stars Are All Alight by Lathalea
TRSB24: Until the Stars Are All Alight

This is my second art entry for the TRSB24 event. It focuses on Thorin Oakenshield surviving BOTFA and darker themes of pyrrhic victory, dragon sickness, longevity/eternity, angst/love.

Major Characters: Thorin Oakenshield, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships: Thorin Oakenshield/Original Character
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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TRSB24: Dwarf Women of the East by Lathalea
TRSB24: Dwarf Women of the East

This is one of my art entries for the TRSB24 event. It focuses on the Dwarves living in the East, specifically Dwarf-women.

Major Characters: Dwarves, Original Character(s)
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Where have you gone, my friend? by elennalore
Winged Eönwë is standing on a cliff, watching the scenery. There's water and one of the Lamps in the background.

Eönwë in Almaren after Mairon went missing.

Major Characters: Eönwë
Major Relationships: Eönwë & Sauron
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Summer Celebration by between_thepages
A coloured pencil drawing of two people, Amarie and Finrod, dancing. Amarie is on the left side and wears a blue dress, her blonde hair is put up into a crown braid with blue and pink ribbons woven in. Finrod is on the right, he is wearing a yellow robe with pink sleeves and orange hems, decorated with gold. His hair is put into a french braid and adorned with jewellery, he also wears several gold neclaces with colourful stones.

Amarië and Finrod are dancing together during a celebration of summer.

Major Characters: Finrod Felagund, Amarië
Major Relationships: Amarië/Finrod
Challenge: Bollywood
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Morgoth's prisoner by elennalore
Maedhros in Angband

Maedhros in Angband

Major Characters: Maedhros
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Mature Themes, Violence (Mild)

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Springtime Oasis at Night by Kaylee Arafinwiel
 A drawing of an oasis in the desert at nighttime. In the centre is a "Tree of 40 Fruit" with pink leaves. To the right of it is a small hut with a yellow roof and lit up windows.

 A drawing of an oasis in the desert at nighttime. In the centre is a "Tree of 40 Fruit" with pink leaves. To the right of it is a small hut with a yellow roof and lit up windows.

Quote: "The “Tree of 40 Fruit” is Van Aken’s creation, a single tree that can produce 40 different stone fruits, or fruit with pits, including peaches, apricots, plums, cherries and nectarines." However, why the heck can't it exist naturally (because magic/A Wizard, or maybe Vala Did It) in Beleriand/Middle-earth (or, at the very least, have been invented by someone else who's interested in hybridization. But who is it?) (https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/03/living/tree-40-fruit-sam-van-aken-feat/index.html: link to inspiration for the tree)

 

 

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Horse Fish? Mine? by Kaylee Arafinwiel
A drawing of a nokk, which in this case is a blue horse with green fins and a green mane and tail swimming in the ocean. It has a thought bubble near its head reading: "Fish?? I am a Nokk!" Near the bottom swims a small grey fish. In the top right is a red buoy with a seagull perched on top. The speech bubble next to it reads: "Horsefish?? Mine?"

 A drawing of a nokk, which in this case is a blue horse with green fins and a green mane and tail swimming in the ocean. It has a thought bubble near its head reading: "Fish?? I am a Nokk!" Near the bottom swims a small grey fish. In the top right is a red buoy with a seagull perched on top. The speech bubble next to it reads: "Horsefish?? Mine?" (The Nokk is responding to the seagull, or trying to.)

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate
Warnings: No warnings listed

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A Crate of (Not Very Many) Anchovies by Kaylee Arafinwiel
A mostly empty brown wooden crate of silvery fish resting on a mat of green kelp.

 A brown (seemingly wooden) crate of anchovies (or other similar small, silver-y fish) lying on a bed of green kelp. Most of the fish are gone, only six or so remain. Where did they go? Who possesses this crate, if anyone? Where did they get it? Did they catch the fish? Buy them? Sell them? Steal them? It is a mystery for now...

(or until someone adopts this prompt, of course. Drawn for Scribbles & Drabbles 2024).

 

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: Creator Chooses Not to Rate
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Map of Valinor by Aprilertuile
map of Valinor

My newly drawn map of Aman, as complete as I could make it. 

Major Characters: No major characters listed
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Funky Balrog by cílil
Depicted is the (chibi) head of a (female) Balrog. She has glowing yellow and orange eyes, a flame on her head and a few tiny flowers attached to her brow. Her horns have glowing ridges. One single fang is visible.

A funky chibi Balrog for the funky 70s!

 

Major Characters: Original Female Character(s), Balrogs
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Funky 70s
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Back in Time by Lyra
Pencil drawing of the DeLorean-turned-time machine from the "Back to the Future" trilogy, in Years-of-the-Trees Valinor. Marty looks horrified at the bolder the time machine has crashed into, Jennifer is staring at the scenery, shielding her eyes, while Doc Brown speaks to Feanor and Nerdanel with his finger raised, trying to explain why they shouldn't be interested in his time machine at all. In the background, the Two Trees are growing prowdly on a hill.

What if, instead of taking Marty and Jennifer to 2015, Doc accidentally took them to Years-of-the-Trees Valinor?

Major Characters: Other Fictional Character(s), Fëanor, Nerdanel
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Crossroads of the Fallen King
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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Lover of All Things That Grow by StarSpray
an embroidered hand stretched palm up with flowers growing out of the palm and fingers, and with woven-wheel roses at the wrist

"[Yavanna] is the lover of all things that grow in the earth, and all their countless forms she holds in her mind..." - The Valaquenta

Major Characters: Yavanna
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Funky 70s
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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The Light and the Sea Cover Art by AdmirableMonster
A figure in an old raincoat gazing out at a lighthouse. Image has script saying "Admirable Monster" and "The Light and the Sea" appearing in the silhouettes of buildings and above the water.

Cover page for my Steampunk Númenor series, The Light and the Sea.  Nimruzimir gazes out at Númenor from Andúnië.

Major Characters: Unnamed Canon Character(s)
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: No challenge listed
Rating: General
Warnings: No warnings listed

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One-handed Anonymous by Lyra
A rough sketch (stick figures) of various fictional characters (and Admiral Nelson) who have lost a hand grouped around a table in a self-help group scenario.

Imagine a self-help group for fictional characters who have lost one or several hands. That's it. That's the idea.

A very rough sketch to get in just under the wire to respond to three challenges at once:
- Tengwar (ampa - hook; technically Noldo)
- Crossroads of the Fallen King (Crossover with Star Wars, Peter Pan, the MCU, the Aubreiad, real world history, Mad Max and the Queen's Thief series)
- Funky 70s (Star Wars; some of the fancy drinks)

Major Characters: Historical Character(s), Other Fictional Character(s), Maedhros
Major Relationships: No major relationships listed
Challenge: Crossroads of the Fallen King, Funky 70s, Tengwar
Rating: Teens
Warnings: Check Notes for Warnings

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