"Finding Vingilot" by Lyra

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Prompt and Path: Green - "Animals" and "Lost and Found"
Format: Watercolour
Genre: Fanart
Rating: Gen
Warnings: Questionable perspective?
Characters: Elwing
Pairings: Elwing/Eärendil
Creator’s Notes (optional): One pic for the cost of two prompts, yay?
Summary: For Ulmo bore up Elwing out of the waves, and he gave her the likeness of a great white bird, and upon her breast there shone as a star the Silmaril, as she flew over the water to seek Eärendil her beloved. On a time of night Eärendil at the helm of his ship saw her come towards him, as a white cloud exceeding swift beneath the moon, as a star over the sea moving in strange course, a pale flame on wings of storm. (The Silmarillion, "Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath")





Larger view of the pic at my dA account.

Comments

[zdenka]

Wow, I really like this! The contrast of the ocean and the sky really gives a sense of storm. You've also given a sense of focus -- Elwing looks very determined to me. (I've also seen a range of bird species for her, but I think I like her best as a seagull.)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! Elwing should look determined (although I can't claim to have given her anything - if it comes across through her posture, that's thanks to the reference I used), so I'm glad she looks like that to you. At this point, she must be running on determination alone!

[shirebound]

That's lovely. What a wonderful moment for both of them!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much!

[kayleelupin.livejournal.com]

Donut: *pokes over his Kaylee's shoulder happily* MINE!

Yes Donut, I know Elwing's your favorite, particularly like this, but I'm trying to give Lyra a review and--

*Donut pokes at the screen, trying to give Elwing a fish* Mine?

*giggles* Silly seagull Muse...*keeps typing as Donut tries to push his fish into the laptop*

Anyway, I love your depiction of bird-Elwing here! And Donut does too, obviously :D I wish I could draw like that...

Kaylee Arafinwiel (And Donut)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

I figured that Donut would like this. ;)

Thank you!

[kayleelupin.livejournal.com]

He thinks Elwing deserves a fish or three after going through all that. Perhaps cheesefish. What do you think? ;)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

LOL! I think we should wait until Elwing has delivered that Silmaril before we offer her something to eat! ;)

[kayleelupin.livejournal.com]

Well all right then, you can have the cheesefish and Elwing can have some after, lol. :)

[silverstarspray.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is lovely!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[nessrealta.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is very beautiful! I especially like contrast of the dark troubled waves and the brightness of Elwing.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I can hardly claim responsibility for that since it's all there in the text, but I'm glad that it comes across! :)

[engarian.livejournal.com]

I really love the storm-tossed waves and that small boat. Such a tiny thing from Elwing's perspective. Really great!

- Erulisse (one L)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

I'm thrilled you like the small boat, not just because it was a pain to try and give it any detail (because it really is tiny) so it's still recogniseable as a boat rather than just a blob, but also because the sentiment of "the ocean so vast and my ship so small" somehow really resonates with me and applies to Eärendil at this stage. (Of course, "space so vast and my ship so small" may not really be better...) Elwing must have been very patient and very determined indeed to keep on searching for that tiny speck on the waves.
Thank you!

[lbilover.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's beautiful!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much!

[fernstrike]

This is beautiful! I especially love how you've done the troubled waters and the boat. Your depiction of Elwing just shines. Well done!

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'm so glad you like it!

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

A very atmospheric painting.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[hhimring]

Lovely!
Vingilot is certainly looking properly lost on that huge ocean. ("Send help!")
And Elwing is clearly going: Ye, utuvienyes!
Well, in her mind, because if she opened her beak, she would drop the jewel, like in the fable of the raven and the cheese.
And also not in Quenya, I suppose.
I really like how the two are linked by patches of light in that expanse of watery darkness.
(Poor gull, I suspect her beak hurts after that long flight... And her new wings, too.)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

"Send help!" indeed! Even on a bigger ship, the ocean is so midboggingly huge. I can't fathom how people ever dared to cross it in teeny tiny nutshells (and without sonar or GPS). So yes, Vingilot should certainly look lost.
I suspect Elwing is beyond wanting to speak (or even think articulated thoughts) at this point. We are told she dropped down exhausted as soon as she'd found the boat. While that initially sounds a bit soppy, I find it pretty believable, like victims of a car crash who somehow just keep going and doing stuff while under shock but as soon as they realise they're safe, break together. Add to that the knowledge of what she left behind and the confusion of suddenly having wings... it must have been draining experience all around!
Thank you!

[starbrow.livejournal.com]

Lovely! Elwing as a seagull feels right to me, and the ship is so tiny, so far down. Love the perspective.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you for your kind words! So glad you like it. :)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

That is beautiful. Really beautiful.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you so much!

[independence1776]

I love everything about this: the perspective, the colors, the emotions.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you so much! I'm particularly happy if the emotions get across, since I didn't have a whole lot of facial expressions to work with!