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uNGloVeD HaNDs this UnGlOvEd hAnDs that

Oh i'll show YOU an ungloving 🥵

Though admittedly very handsome, his hair and beard were far too long to be considered fashionable in Gondor, and his manners bordering on ungenteel. But it was his passion that drew Princess Lothíriel to the young Marshal of the Riddermark.

had an ~incredible~ dream last night y'all i dreamt that in the very short aftermath of the War of the Ring Gimli and Legolas find a wee baby orphan and decide to raise her together--what's hilarious is i don't even recall them being particularly romantic ship-wise with each other (esp in the beginning) it was more the dynamic of two golfing buddies finding a baby amongst their golfing equipment and being like

"I guess we're co-parenting our new daughter now ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

but anyway, super cute dream of Legolas and Gimli raising a little girl in Ithilien and now i wanna draw for this au 🥺

Okay, so I have Romance in Rivendell to make some more pages for (don't worry!! i've scheduled working on the next two pages this afternoon!), (and A Dance also technically needs to be updated soon), but I've been itching to start another more... Lord of the Rings era focused fancomic and wanted to know y'all's preference,,

so, if i were to start a third tolkien fancomic, should it be

  1. About a girl who falls into Middle Earth and ends up living the not-very-mundane but at the same time not very magical or "adventurous" life of a maid in a bakery in Minas Tirith some time after the events of the war of the ring, where the focus of the comic would be the daily lives of the average person in Minas Tirith? Very slice of life this one, has a VERY (so much so you gotta squint) slow burn romance plot with the main characters but mostly focuses on romantic subplots of side/minor characters, as far as romance goes. BARELY features ANY canon characters btw, except maybe some hobbits who of course are gonna visit a bakery, but this is not a Cinderella story. Female Lead/Main Character does NOT go to any balls (except maybe to deliver some pastries etc) and like i said, this is about the average life of the average minis tirith dweller during a peaceful (as far as wars go) time period of Gondor.
  2. A retelling of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, retold as if a princess of Dale attended the Council of Elrond and joined the Fellowship? A 10th walker fic. Not much romance, more a found family and "Bro-ship" kind of fic haha. Might have some romance shoe horned in at the end in a "What if/possibility" kind of situation but overall is lacking majorly in the romantic plot department some people might not like in favor of friendship and action/plot.
  3. A modern Post-War of the Ring comic focusing on Eomer and Lothiriel but also heavily featuring Faramir and Eowyn (with relevant other major characters featured as well)

Let me know if any of these sounds (at all) interesting to you and which you'd like to see in comic form the most! This summer I've decided is gonna be a Tolkien themed summer as far as where I put my creative energies so I wanna line up some projects :>

Elrond Elrond Elrond (for the modern fashion studies) I’ve had a LotR/Silm modern au scratching at the back of my head for wEEKS and I really enjoy your art and lowkey adore your take on Elrond. Or maybe Celebrían? She’s always been much harder for me to pin down her style

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Hehe thanks for requesting the faves 🥰

modern Elrond rocks the "Cool Professor" dark academia vibes:

While Celebrian is a cutesy Gen Z vibes kinda gal:

Here they are together for height difference,, purposes,, (Elrond is hella tall, and Celebrian is short (for an elf) so they pose quite the difference in stature haha)

What Tolkien/Silm/LOTR character should I do modern fashion studies for next? [send suggestions via askbox pls!]

It's getting warmer out so obviously it is Obligatory "Summer is Coming" Celebrían time 🥰

Also introducing my "Hostel Imladris au!"

A day's ride accidentally turns into a summer stay when Celebrían gets lost and finds herself in the sleepy riverside town of Imladris--will this be the summer (and place) she finally finds her purpose? And... maybe love? There seems to be more to the cute hostel owner, Elrond Peredhel, than meets the eye ;)

if "To Be Loved" was a cartoon Saloon movie heh 🥰

Spoilers i guess??? Cause of little Elfwine... this is also a scene from the fic itself... takes place in the chapters leading up to the climax of Part 1 of the fic,, before, y'know... the ~Great Tragedy~ strikes 😳😬

Little Noldo Princess ✨

aka i've finally succumbed to drawing one of my most self indulgent oc's lol 😅, the youngest child and only daughter of Feanor and Nerdanel. Born many years after Amros and Amrod, she was a surprise baby (if elves can even have surprise pregnancies idk) and is considerably younger than her 7 older brothers. She is also not coincidentally the absolute apple of they and her father's eye. She has them all completely wrapped around her little finger (nerdanel being the only one capable of reigning her in lol, which results in Nerd having to be the disciplinary parent here haha)

anyway--i have lots of arts/ideas to draw for her and especially her interacting with her brothers/family and big cousins :)

Russingon for the modern sketch requests?

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so i totally spaced/misread this ask and didn't realize it was for a modern au so i hope you don't mind that I made it canon Valinor days haha 😅

Anyway, they're at a festival and Fingon is on a mission to make Maedhros loosen up and dance for once--which the latter finds amusing lol

This is not a ship that i ship romantically so hopefully I still succeeded at drawing a satisfactory dynamic between these two :)

It's getting warmer out so obviously it is Obligatory "Summer is Coming" Celebrían time 🥰

Also introducing my "Hostel Imladris au!"

A day's ride accidentally turns into a summer stay when Celebrían gets lost and finds herself in the sleepy riverside town of Imladris--will this be the summer (and place) she finally finds her purpose? And... maybe love? There seems to be more to the cute hostel owner, Elrond Peredhel, than meets the eye ;)

It's getting warmer out so obviously it is Obligatory "Summer is Coming" Celebrían time 🥰

Also introducing my "Hostel Imladris au!"

A day's ride accidentally turns into a summer stay when Celebrían gets lost and finds herself in the sleepy riverside town of Imladris--will this be the summer (and place) she finally finds her purpose? And... maybe love? There seems to be more to the cute hostel owner, Elrond Peredhel, than meets the eye ;)