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The least 6 portraits.
Lúthien, Fingolfin, Maglor, Fëanor, Aredhel and Ecthelion.
the house of fingolfin as bizarre t shirts
tag yourself im well paint me green and call me a pickle
Note for fingon's shirt: article 7 sections 553-4 of the maryland annotated code prohibited sodomy, oral sex and “any other unnatural or perverted sexual practice with any other person” - aka anything fun.
Czech Tolkien musicals directory || musicals by Falešné společenstvo (False Fellowship)
(Disclaimer: I’ve only watched Beren a Lúthien, Fëanor a jeho synové, Děti Húrinovy, and Pád Doriathu)
Rohirové (Rohirrim) (2015)
The story of Rohan, from Eorl the Young to Théoden and Éowyn. [No captions or translation available.]
Hobit (The Hobbit) (2014) and (2020)
An Unexpected Journey; or: There and Back Again. [No captions or translation available.]
Beren a Lúthien (Beren and Lúthien) (2016)
The tale of Beren and Lúthien, and their quest for the Silmaril. [No captions; translation in progress.]
Aredhel (2017)
Aredhel, from the founding of Gondolin to her death; Maeglin, and his betrayal. [No captions or translation available.]
Fëanor a jeho synové (Fëanor and his sons) (2018)
Fëanor and his family, from the childhood of his sons to his death. [Captioned in English; I am also working on a translation.]
Děti Húrinovy (Children of Húrin) (2019)
The tragedy of Húrin’s family, from his visit to Gondolin to his death. [No captions; currently being translated by @nereb-and-dungalef.]
Pád Doriathu (Fall of Doriath) (2022)
The slow fall of Doriath, from the claiming of the Nauglamír to the deaths of Dior and Nimloth. [Captions in Czech; auto-translate works. No available script, so no translation is in progress.]
not a musical:
Nienor Níniel fan movie - English and Czech
A short fan video about Nienor Níniel.
upcoming Falešné společenstvo projects:
Pád Gondolinu (Fall of Gondolin)
Númenor
list subject to change, updates
Mix for Aredhel and Eöl.
Art belongs to Turner Mohan (http://turnermohan.deviantart.com/)
Bunch of pictures I made for pallette meme using this palette:
Fingon
Galadriel, Eol and Aredhel, Maglor
Celegorm
And in the end, it is a matter of the length of the narrative.
Actually, I find Tolkien's treatment of Aredhel a bit annoying. It makes no sense for Aredhel to follow Turgon to Gondolin. Turgon's building of Gondolin and hiding there was perfectly reasonable for Turgon. The only thing he did that didn't make sense was taking Aredhel with him. Aredhel and Gondolin? I don't understand anything. Turgon is not her father, the king she must obey, nor is he the most agreeable of her siblings. And the Gondolin-like approach is completely incompatible with Aredhel's character as described throughout the book - a hunter, a lover of travel, and a temper that can be inferred from her friendship with the sons of Fëanor. Tolkien has her join Gondolin without any reason. Aredhel follows Turgon to Gondolin because Tolkien needs her to give birth to Maeglin, which will bring about the downfall of Gondolin. She was captured by an evil husband because she had to give birth to an evil son (and if you don't think race determines personality, this is all annoying.). Unlike the sons of Feanor, who brought about tragedy because of their own contradictions in personality, she had contradictions because she had to be the tool of tragedy. It's annoying to see a character who could have been really interesting get treated like this…. Like many women in real life, who had potential but were ignored and used only as a tool.
Aredhel Ar-Feiniel
now I usually like to portray her with darker skin but I really wanted that strong white on black contrast and almost ghostly look for this piece
theory: Aredhel was the most skilled among the Noldor at spells of concealment
support:
she was particularly friends with Celegorm, so it's reasonable to conclude that she, too, was a hunter. stealth is a valuable skill for a hunter.
why did a woman who grew so impatient with Gondolin that she badgered her brother for years into letting her leave, and then slipped away from the escort he insisted upon, even move to such a secret city in the first place? Because she's the one who helped hide it in the first place
seriously, someone in the building of Gondolin must've been an expert at concealment spells. Even with Ulmo's blessing, you simply can't build and move en masse to an entire city without anyone finding out where it is without serious juju. why not Aredhel?
Turgon let his sister leave Gondolin on vacation when he never let anyone else go not out of weakness to the pleas of family, but because he knew that if Aredhel didn't want Morgoth or his spies to see or track her, they fucking wouldn't see or track her - and if they could, Gondolin's hope of secrecy was lost anyway.
alas that Eol was even better at it than she was (maybe this intrigued her at first. maybe there was delighted hide-and-seek beneath the dark trees before there was only hiding)
alas that she didn't have time to teach Maeglin all she knew
"Aredhel the White was younger in the years of the Eldar than her brothers; and when she was grown to full stature and beauty she was tall and strong, and loved to ride and hunt in the forests. There she was often in the company of the sons of Feanor, her kin; but to none was her heart's love given. Ar-Feiniel she was called, the White Lady of the Noldor, for she was pale, though her hair was dark, and she was never arrayed but in silver and white."
—The Silmarillion, Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalie
I actually made two palette versions and can’t decide which I like better: above is “sunset” (more dramatic), and below is “twilight” (softer).
After doing a few quite illustrative, stylised paintings recently I think I may move back towards doing some realism for a bit
I’ve never really enjoyed sticking with one style of painting for too long - it’s more fun to switch around between stylised, realism and painterly imho :)
Some heavy referenced Halethel because as soon as I saw this picture I thought about them
I have a hilarious year of the trees take: Maedhros and Fingon are together (romantically) and Celegorm and Aredhel are completely platonic, but everyone thinks it's the other way around (namely Feanor and Fingolfin)
Like Celegorm is getting CONSTANTLY lectured by his dad and all of society for his relationship with Aredhel, whereas Maedhros is off fucking Fingon by a waterfall somewhere and everyone's like "Oh theyre such good friends :)"
Celegorm would be PISSED. He just wants to go camping with his homegirl (and for her to join the hunters of Orome) but all the parents are trying to tear them apart cause they think they're fucking. Whereas Maedhros and Fingon are giggling together at court, writing each other the sappiest love poems, and dance together at every social gathering and no one suspects a THING.
Bonus points if all of the cousins are in on it, and none of the Feanor/Fingolfin/Finarfin generation ever figures it out.