maedhros laughed saying: ’a king is he that can hold his own or else his title is vain. thingol does but grant us lands where his power does not run. Indeed doriath alone would be his realm this day but for the coming of the noldor. Therefore in doriath let him reign and be glad that he has the sons of finwe for his neighbours not the orcs of morgoth that we found.
The Silmarillion aesthetic |
Of Thingol and Melian
Melian sat long in silence beside Thingol the King, and her thought
passed back into the starlit years and to their first meeting among the
nightingales of Nan Elmoth in ages past.
Ingwe, Elwe and Finwe meeting the Valar. I’ve never worked on such a large piece digitally. It was a lot of trial and error. But I’m happy with how it turned out.