



Midgewater Marshes by ~AlasseaEarello
As Frodo lay, tired but unable to close his eyes, it seemed to him that far away there came a light in the eastern sky: it flashed and faded many times. It was not the dawn, for that was still some hours off.
‘What is the light?’ he said to Strider, who had risen, and was standing, gazing ahead into the night.
‘I do not know,’ Strider answered. ‘It is too distant to make out. It is like lightning that leaps up from the hill-tops.’
The Fellowship of the Ring, “A Knife in the Dark”
Beautiful ink illustrations by SceithAilm
I actually just leaned back and said “Whooooooooa.”

I’ve drawn Thranduil and his legendary elk (every fan of movie!Thranduil has to draw him with an elk at least once). The elk has human eyes because it’s elven elk.

‘He Would Suffer No More Loss’
A brief history of Thranduil (that may shed some light on his motives) summarised from the Unfinished Tales and the Appendices of LotR by JRR Tolkien; composed and Illustrated by Soni Alcorn-Hender

Son of Beren and Luthien, his byname means “heir of Thingol” (Elu is the Sindarin version of his Quenya name, Elwë).