05-23-2003, 04:39 PM | #1 |
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Description of Fëanor and his sons?
Please help me. I need the description of Fëanor and his sons, before they left Valinor, for a picture.
I already looked into the archive and used search, but did'nt found more, than I already knew: That Fëanor and most of his sons had dark hair, except Maedhros, Amrod and Amras, which had red-brown hair. And I know, that Maedhros usually wore a copper circlet. And I have the description of the banner of Fëanor. But I haven't read the hole HoME (till now ). So for those of you, who remember more descriptions from Tolkien-books. I need everything you remember, color of clothing or horses, if mentioned, and every other detail. I hope, you will help me. Tanks.
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05-23-2003, 04:43 PM | #2 |
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I know that Feanor had black hair...and I think that MAedhros and Curufin looked alot like him.
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05-23-2003, 06:05 PM | #3 |
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Feanor had raven black hair, as did Curufin, who was pretty much a carbon copy of his father. We can assume Maglor was dark haired too. Maedhros, Amrod and Amras were all red-brown haired, whch they got from their mother Nerdanel, Caranthir's Quenya mother-name was 'Carnistir' meaning red-face, he was said to have dark brown hair and the ruddy (redish) complexion of Nerdanel. Celegorm was named 'Turkafinwe' by his father (Strong Finwe) which shows quite a lot of promise for all you ladies out there but even more 'promising' was Maedhros's mother name, Maitimio 'one of beautiful bodily form'. Now if THAT doesn't send your heart beat racing...Oh and I assume they were all handsome.
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05-23-2003, 07:01 PM | #4 |
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If you are interested in their personalities as well as their appearance, you should get your hands on HoME 12 - The Peoples of Middle Earth, and read The Shibboleth. There's a lot of material to work with in there.
I think Maitimo's epessë - Russandol - sounds so cute.
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05-23-2003, 07:04 PM | #5 |
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Moving to the Silmarillion forum.
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That's why I thought some of you may remember descriptions in other book. Anyway, thank for trying to help. So I can use my own fantasy, while painting.
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But I've already painted the background and now I try my vision of Tuna, and then I'm going to paint the people and their horses in the front of the picture.
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09-18-2003, 05:48 PM | #9 |
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OK, this is not the picture I intended to paint, when I made this topic.
That picture is still in work. Please belief me, I'm much better in oilpaintings. But today I grabbed my water colours and this was one outcome: Feanorian Oath I know it should be darker and in Tirion, but I wanted to share anyway.
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I like it. It captures the spirit of the moment of the Oath. Fëanor
has a perfectly daemonic glare.
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Thanks for sharing. I too like the look of Fëanor's face.
Who is the golden-haired of his sons?
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The sons from left to right in the picture: Maedhros, Maglor, Celegorm, Curufin, Amrod & Amras (or the other way around ) and Caranthir
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Twas hard enough to find that one line.
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