This Far Distant Shore, by Elleth

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Title: This Far Distant Shore
Artist Name: Elleth
Prompt: Exile - Enya (Lyrics)
Description: Gilmith, daughter of Mithrellas the Silvan Elf and Imrazôr the Númenorean, laments her lack of choice.
Rating: General
Warnings: None
Artist's Notes: [Mithrellas] was one of the companions of Nimrodel, among many of the Elves that fled to the coast about the year 1980 of the Third Age, when evil arose in Moria; and Nimrodel and her maidens stayed in the wooded hills, and were lost. But in this tale it is said that Imrazôr harboured Mithrellas, and took her to wife. But when she had borne him a son, Galador, and a daughter, Gilmith, she slipped away by night and he saw her no more. (Unfinished Tales, Of Amroth and Nimrodel)

Stock credits and a full-size version of the picture can be found here.





Galador went on to found the line of Dol Amroth, whereas nothing more is said of either Mithrellas after her disappearance (perhaps west together with Nimrodel, who is said to make it to Dol Amroth at last) or Gilmith. Going by her name (either "grey star" or "star mist") I tend to imagine her as the "more elvish" in character of the siblings, and more keenly aware of being mortal and bound to Middle-earth. In many ways her story reminds of Tolkien's Fíriel (The Last Ship) poem, as well as of the song that prompted this image.

Comments

[elliska.livejournal.com]

This is beautiful! I have no idea how this digital art is done and I am just so impressed with it. This is very ethereal. And obviously a beautiful as well as appropriate palette. Love it!

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! :) The process itself is far less ethereal than the results; a bare-bones approach might describe this as digital cutting, pasting and matching, and I'm not even very good at it - there are people who have this down to a true art form. But anyway - I'm about to upload this to my art account and will link the stock images I used to make it there (and include the link above in the description), and maybe that will give you a better idea of the process, if you're interested? :)