"The Vanyar Hunt The Woolly Mammoth" by Lyra

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: 2007 SWG Quotes challenge, March 2 and 4

Format: Fanart (Watercolour)

Genre: Fanart

Rating: General

Warnings: If the idea of hunting upsets you, I guess you may want to skip this? No graphic violence, though.

Characters: Vanyar (technically, Indis and Ingwë are in this picture, but they're not really recogniseable?)

Pairings: n/a

Creators' Notes (optional): Inspired by the primeval Middle-earth/Cuiviénen quotes and by ladyelleth's fanfic The Beautiful Ones.

Summary: Exactly what it says on the tin. Stone-age Vanyar hunting a mammoth.

"The Vanyar Hunt The Woolly Mammoth" at deviantArt

Comments

[kayleelupin.livejournal.com]

Oh, I really like this! :D

Kaylee Arafinwiel

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Thank you again - for taking the time to comment in both places, too!

[zdenka]

Oh wow, this is really great! And I love the concept.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I like it - it seems reasonable to me that they should have woolly mammoths to hunt!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! As I've by now learned, wolly mammoths didn't actually live in woodlands, but there must have been other kinds of prehistoric animals around...

[baranduin.livejournal.com]

Love it!

Who knew PJ was right about Legolas and the oliphaunts :-)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Hah! Well spotted! Yes, it's clearly genetic memory of long-past mammoths hunts. :D

[sullhach.livejournal.com]

Sorry, But This Kind Of Mammoth Couldn' T Excist In Woodlands. It Is Absolutely Specialiced To Treeless Grasslands And The There Lingering Drie Cold.
But Maybe I Should Take The Painting Somehow AU , And Seen As Art, It Is Really Great...

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Ouch! Thanks for clearing that up. You'll understand that I won't be able to change the painting now, but I'll take the lesson away to do more research the next time. Or maybe we can assume that the mammoth actually lived in the plains beyond the woods, but the Elves drove it into the forest to get it into an environment where it would be confused and ill-adapted for. That would make getting it into a trap even easier... ;)

[kayleelupin.livejournal.com]

That would certainly explain why it looks so surprised!!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's clearly out of its depth in every way!

[engarian.livejournal.com]

What a fun concept. I like the surprise in the eyes of your mammoth :-)

- Erulisse (one L)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

You have an interesting idea of fun! ;) Thank you, I'm quite pleased with how that turned out! It's clearly very well out of its depth here...

[engarian.livejournal.com]

Well, obviously it's not fun for the mammoth, but you had fun painting the piece, yes? In the long run, I think that's what really matters here. *hugs*

- Erulisse (one L)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

*hugs back* I did have fun! But it also took me to the brink of despair. Trees everywhere! DARKNESS! And soooo much hair! What was I thinking! ;)

[hhimring]

Great! I like that fic, too, and I do hope Elleth will get round to writing that hunt, eventually!
Quite a challenge, such a complex scene and such rapid movement and the darkness of the background!
I think you handled it really well!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

I hope so too! :)
It was seriously challenging. I feel confident neither about dynamics nor about animals nor about a lack of "normal" daylight, so this brought me to the brink of despair! I'm relieved it turned out as well as it did. Thank you so much!

[the-wavesinger.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is gorgeous! *squees*

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

"Stone-age Elves! The primeval forests around Cuiviénen!"

That certainly is a challenge and well-met! Love the picture. Love the idea of the Vanyar as hunters. They couldn't just sit around and sing songs and expect others to feed them. It's terrific to imagine an earlier reality than the role we read them playing in Aman.

It really is hard to paint a picture set in darkness--hard enough with words, but harder still on canvas. The Vanyar and their torches reflected by their hair really help with that problem a great deal.

Really a fun picture!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

I never thanked you for your lovely comment here! So let me redress that now. I'm so glad you enjoy this (idea and execution!) - so much that you commented in two places, too! *hugs*

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

Ah, this is unexpected and the more satisfying for that! Well rendered!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! So glad you find it satisfying. It's an unusual concept for sure, but that's why I found it so compelling!

[nialoke]

This is awesome, and quite fascinating! I love it.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[independence1776]

This is wonderful, Lyra!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much!

[elleth]

I'll never not squee about this one! :D