New Challenge: Bollywood
This month's challenge offers songs, films, and tropes from Bollywood, the world's largest film industry based out of India, as prompts for fanworks.
You've heard of Lay of Leithian, the rock opera - now get ready for Lay of Leithian, the ice skating show. Well, not really. But when we were setting up the challenges for 2022, I couldn't help envisioning characters from the Lay of Leithian as skaters for the Arda on Ice challenge.
Melian and Thingol awake from their enchantment in Nan Elmoth.
Anairës nightly vigil before Ñolofinwë leaves, illustration for Till Morning Breaks by Raiyana
Gereth at her forge.
As far as I know, there's no lore regarding elves and tattoos. I love the idea that they might have had them, but with special ink that made them appear differently, or not at all, depending on circumstances like day, mood, and words spoken.
Done for the Worldbuilding Exchange 2018, for Lunarium and heavily inspired by their works featuring Gereth
Floorplan of Nienna's house.
After living for hundreds, never mind thousands, of years by the sea there's no way that Círdan wasn't a) as brown as a berry, and b) didn't invent surfing.
Helevorn stirs from her repose.
Minyelmë discovers the far Western shore of Aman.
Varda experiments with undoing just a wee bit of history...