Art by Mithrial - Perhaps Glorfindel or is it the fair but false face of Sauron - Annatar?

[mithrial.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Prompt and Path: Blue path step eight: Realistic
Format: Digital art
Genre:Illustration (Portrait)
Rating:Gen
Warnings:None
Characters:Glorfindel or Annatar?
Pairings:None
Creator’s Notes (optional):I have jumped a few squares along the blue path as this is where this art attempt seems to fit in.
Summary:Well this started out to be Glorfindel, but the more I worked on it the more it felt like it might be the false face of Sauron as 'Annatar'. You must decide and I'd be interested in who you perceive it to be.



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Comments

[kayleelupin.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like this! Wouldn't it be annoying if Sauron chose Glorfindel, or strongly resembling him, as his 'guise' as Annatar? Celebrimbor was probably an elfling in Aman; he might have known Glorfindel casually but wouldn't really have mingled with him, I don't think. I don't know how much he or the other jewel-smiths would have seen Glorfindel later, after Glorfindel's return, if they crossed paths at all. So if he knew of Glorfindel but didn't really know him, Sauron taking the guise of the Balrog-Slayer would have been the sort of private cruel joke Sauron would have enjoyed, I think.

[mithrial.livejournal.com]

Well - cruel tricks were certainly Sauron's thing. Though I hadn't thought of him using Glorfindel's face for the deception.
Gil-galad and Elrond weren't fooled though.
I had thought of turning this .jpg file into a .gif and making the eyes glow red for a moment.