Bright Himring Morning by Lyra

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Prompt and Path: Green - "It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright." ~ Stephen King
Format: Fanart
Genre: Watercolour
Rating: Gen
Warnings: N/A
Characters: N/A
Pairings: N/A
Creator’s Notes (optional): N/A
Summary: During the Watchful Peace, all hell might break loose at any moment. Until that happens, the Noldor make the best of the spectacular vista. (A.k.a. view from Himring across the March of Maedhros clouds towards Thangorodrim.)




(A click on the pic will take you to a somewhat larger version at my dA account. With extra rambling, if that's your kind of thing.)

Comments

[dawn_felagund]

I love this! The amount of detail is impressive; I find myself trying to imagine doing a piece of this high caliber in three days! :D

It's also an interesting idea to see Thangorodrim as an almost beautiful part of the landscape, and it is nicely symbolic to imagine the fortress of Maedhros and the triple mountains of Morgoth peering at each other across the cloud inversion, apart from the rest of Beleriand and with eyes only for each other.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! Three days are actually rather slow for me, but it's been a long time since I've been serious about painting so these days everything takes me twice as long. ;)

Yes! I think that from this distance, it would be, well, not pretty but not horrible either. I figure both mountains are high enough to glare at each other over the clouds (Thangorodrim must have been insanely high anyway, but since the top of Himring is still visible even after the rest of Beleriand has gone under, it can't have been just an ordinary hill, either?) much of the time. I figure Maedhros might actually relish the view; what better way to remind himself, every day, that he's here and not there? :D