
Rebirth
Nerdanel meeting Celebrimbor as he is released from the Halls of Mandos.
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Things have been Happen™ and I have not finished an art in like a month???
Here’s a bunch of Silm doodles I’ve been accruing like punitive interest since approx. June.
Since I use Silm art as a vector for my unsubstantiated Silm headcanons:
- The Noldor have a nudity taboo that is tenuous at best.
- Nerdanel is at least as bad as Feener re: not wearing a shirt, ever, if she can possibly get away with it.
- It’s a miracle any of their children ever wore clothes.
- Miriel was just. Very short. Feener is the exact same size as she was.
- Nerdanel, on the other hand, was like seven feet of beanpole who then worked out and The Haters don’t know what they’re talking about re: her ‘’’’’’fairness’’’’’’’
- Elves didn’t freckle under the Light of the Trees because of Symbolic Reasons, which is why Nerdanel is pasty and that Mae doodle is 900% freckles by volume.
Just some stray thoughts about grandmothers and their grandchildren in the house of Finwë
Indis helping Artanis train for varius athletics competitions, running together through the woods and meadows on the slopes of Taniquetil
Eärwen teaching Artaresto swim when he was just a baby and loved splashing about, then later to dive for pearls
Nerdanel making little abstract statues with little Tyelperinquar, showing him that things don’t always need to make useful to be beautiful

For the lonely ones
Throw back to 2014 when I had an idea of Nerdanel in Aman many years after the war war of wrath surrounded by the broken statues of her children but I couldn’t get the composition to work with so many figures so I decided to focus on her and Maglor as in the ones that were left alone.
I was rooting around in my Work Files Folder and found a Nerdanel! With a sculpture and a weird very non-legitimate hammer thing and some fun hair!
I couldn’t find the momentum to finish up the lineart, so have these wips.
Happy mother’s day y’all!
1.Melian & Luthien / 2.Celebrian & Arwen / 3.Nerdanel & kid(s) of your choice
Tolkien gives us lots of mothers struggling with the pain of being separated from their children (for a lifetime, ages or eternity), so I gotta focus on the good moments they had together ;^;
What if the horrible answer is I don’t think elves have casual sex and I’m fine with them all being insectile monogamists? …………. nooooo uhhhhhh hhhhhh I… still pretty much stand by “all sex is casual if it’s not telepathic” …. I guess I should pick a specific elf to talk about, it’s just, my answers for that are horrible too. I suspect Nerdanel and Fëanor managed to have a LOT of premarital sex through innovative, like, psychic blindfolds, and also that Nerdanel wanted to keep doing kinky willpower-based contraception while Fëanor was begging her for kids. It’s like orgasm denial but instead Fëanor is sitting there TRYING to push half a soul out and Nerdanel is jamming it back up the spout
Anonymous said: nerdanel in a1 or aredhel in b3?
here you go! ^^