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OT: Pencil Drawing
Each month at john-howe.com (professional illustrator, concept designer on LOTR) there is a themed fan-art competition. The top-five-rated images out of all submissions voted on get a permanent place in the website. Each month has a different theme, and January's was "On Wings Of Angels." I submitted a small pencil drawing of the Archangel Gabriel... and it actually ended up in the top 5 out of 58 submissions.
Thought I'd share my befuddled pleasure with my friends here.
http://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/g...?image_id=3350
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Re: OT: Pencil Drawing
Very good. I like the language around the border. Always picture Archangels as being more buff and with weapons and armour. Then again I'm currently playing a game with those kind of angles. Keep up the good work.
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Re: OT: Pencil Drawing
I like the way the wing comes out of the frame at the bottom. It kind of brings the picture to life.
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Re: OT: Pencil Drawing
Cool!
What is "tengwar" by the way? It looks almost elvish... 
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Re: OT: Pencil Drawing
Wow that is really good.
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Re: OT: Pencil Drawing
Definitly good.
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Re: OT: Pencil Drawing
Thanks you guys.
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Cool!
What is "tengwar" by the way? It looks almost elvish...
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Tengwar is the official name of Tolkien's "elvish" writing system. It was used to write Quenya (High-Elven) and Sindarin (Wood Elves).
So yeah... it looks elvish... lol
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Re: OT: Pencil Drawing
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Cool!
What is "tengwar" by the way? It looks almost elvish...
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Tengwar *is* elvish. Or rather, one of the scripts used to write elvish. Tolkein devised it to work with his elvish languages Quenya and Sindarin, and I think the version he used in all the published Lord of the Rings works was the version "developed" by Feanor (put two dots above the e, I forgot the code for it). His earlier drafts he attributed to... some other elf I don't remember. He also made rune-scripts for elvish and dwarvish languages. (/offtopic)
Nice drawing, too!
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Re: OT: Pencil Drawing
[/off topic] Yes, those are Fëanoran tengwar (alt0235  ). The earlier writing system was called Serati and developed by Rumíl of Valinor (Isle of Teleri?) and was a vertical writing system. Only snippets of it exist for writing examples. The other two scripts developed by Tolkien for use outside "elf-dom" were Angerth and Cirth, and were used by Dwarves and Eastern Men.
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... and "thanks Will"
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Re: OT: Pencil Drawing
That's a beautiful piece of artwork you created. Wow! Very nice.  |
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