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The Drow's Tale, part 2

... continued from http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/15391732/

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They let me go again.
On the way back, a dozen thoughts whirled in my mind. First and foremost of them was that Alak was dead. With Sinafay's help, I could try and put in my bid for power, for command of our camp. With a priestess behind me, nobody would dare to oppose me.
I thought of the two humans. My drow perception of the world insisted they were stupid beings, having let me go twice, on nothing else but my word that I would not harm them, or that I would return and bring help. Stupidity meant that my word was not binding.
But then I thought of Tal, who had been very

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Nerdanelby =Gold-Seven

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Nerdanel the Wise, wife of Fëanor.

I think I've been trying to capture Nerdanel for nearly twenty years, and now I've finally managed to capture her gentleness, her inner strength and her sense of humour - because I always thought that you needed that when you're married to Fëanor for a few thousand years, give birth to no fewer than seven boys, and raise them without any major damage...

Winsor/Newton watercolours on moleskine sketchbook.

Princes of the Eldalië series:

love 6 6

joy 3 3

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~~mad 0 0~~

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=Gold-Seven Aug 21, 2011 Professional Traditional Artist

The Silmarillion.

~Ryofy Aug 21, 2011

Really?! whitch part?

=Gold-Seven Aug 21, 2011 Professional Traditional Artist

More towards the beginning, before Fëanor leads the Noldor into exile.

~Ryofy Aug 21, 2011

Oh yes, found her

thanks

~Ryofy Aug 20, 2011

Very beautiful indeed, but I have a question. I love Tolkien and his books, but I never seem to have came across Nerdanel. I was hoping you tell me is she really in the books and in which one

=Gold-Seven Aug 20, 2011 Professional Traditional Artist

She's the wife of Feanor, and has something like three lines in the entire book

~MaidenOfIthilien Jul 9, 2011

Can one fall in love in a painting?

~Vampyre-Lover Jun 20, 2011

Stunning Portrait!!!

~sun-stone Jun 11, 2011 Hobbyist

I am delighted that you are on another Silmarillion kick; it inspires me to read the book(s) again. I've always loved Nerdanel, because she was such a strong, steady counterpart to Feanor's intensity. And when he finally became too difficult to deal with, she left him, as well as any elf could without divine intervention. (Oh Tolkien, you Catholic, you.) I once had an idea for a fan fiction that checked in on her some time after the end of the Third Age, but it never got off the ground. Mostly I wanted to explore how the Noldor would have changed over the millenia, in culture and technology.

Forgive my rambling. Seeing your art (I first found you years ago on Elfwood, by the way) brings back the memories.

=Gold-Seven Jun 11, 2011 Professional Traditional Artist

Interesting question, on how much they'd have changed! My take would be that their technology wouldn't have changed at all. Feanor seems to have been the only Elf *ever* to have made revolutionary inventions on any field (writing, arms, armour) and the only one driven enough to desire change. The Noldor, as a whole, seem to be a very reluctant-to-change people. Especially after the trauma of Feanor.

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