G50 - Beasty - Horse (art)

[havamahal.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: Beasty - G50 - Horse

Format: digital art

Genre: General

Rating: G

Warnings: None

Characters: Rochallor

Pairings: None

Summary: Rochallor crosses Anfauglith on his return to Hithlum after Fingolfin's duel with Morgoth.

Comments

[silver-trails.livejournal.com]

Beautiful! He does look sad...

[havamahal.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Perhaps he should have looked frightened here, considering the wolves were chasing him at the time, but I thought he deserved a moment to mourn his master's death.

[engarian.livejournal.com]

Beautiful horse. I like how you altered and embellished this.

- Erulisse (one L)
Sent frim my NookColor

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

Aw, what a beautiful horse. He really looks worthy of a great king. Love the atmosphere you've created.

[silver-trails.livejournal.com]

Maybe he had already left the wolves behind. (smile)

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

A beautiful image here.

[havamahal.livejournal.com]

*crosses fingers*

I hope so. ;) I'm so glad C. Tolkien left Rochallor's death out of The Silmarillion. I actually felt like crying, when I read that description this morning. :((

[havamahal.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's really the horse that deserves all the credit. I barely had to do anything except for changing the background and find a way to make that natural metallic sheen these horses possess stand out.

[havamahal.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! He is beautiful, isn't he? I figured the horses that were brought from Aman (and their descendants) had to be something special and thought it was likely they looked something like Akhal-Tekes.

(how I wish I could afford this one...)

[havamahal.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

(It could be better, of course, but I'll try not to complain about that... much) ;)

[silver-trails.livejournal.com]

The description of Rochallor dying?

[havamahal.livejournal.com]

"Now Rochallor had stayed beside the king until the end, but the wolves of Angband assailed him, and he escaped from them because of his great swiftness, and ran at last to Hithlum, and broke his heart and died."

It's in HoMe XI., The War of the Jewels.

I was always under the impression Rochallor's fate remained unknown and that maybe he returned to Hithlum to "live happily ever after", but Tolkien apparently killed him. Just like every other character in his books that I liked. :/

[silver-trails.livejournal.com]

That was horrible! Poor horsie!

I go by Home 12 canon most of the time. C. Tolkien changed many things in the Sil