A song always cheers everybody up
The Peak of Thangorodrim
drawn June ‘03
posted for Dec 26, 2006
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This is Fingon, with the harp, playing to Maedhros, the one chained by the wrist. I drew this based on a particularly dramatic scene in the Silmarillion, and I even shaded parts of it! It looks pretty good! Maedhros’s portrait is a close-up; he’s not really in that space in the air. The dark smudge on the mountain behind Fingon is him. The only problem is that I drew it with Maedhros chained by the wrong wrist, so this is actually flipped from the way I drew it… but it’s the right way around now. I was going to shade the mountain Fingon’s leaning against too, but I decided it was too big a job and I didn’t know how to do it, so it would get ruined if I did it.
Is this a good time to point out that if anyone wants to ‘finish’ any of my works and send them to me, I’ll put them up here too?
Anyhow, I like Fingon. I like Fingolfin a lot, but Fingon is rather like him. Maedhros is cool, too, especially when he makes all the orcs run away just by glaring at them. I should draw a picture of that. ^_^7
Well, I can’t stop listening to my Studio Ghibli CD. My favourite tracks are the two from Howl’s Moving Castle - end credits and Sophie’s theme waltz - the ukulele end credits song from The Cat Returns, the lovely San’s song from Mononoke-hime, the two songs from Kiki’s Delivery Service, which I don’t remember being in the movie, but that doesn’t matter! I also like the end credits from Castle in the Sky, and a song which is from Nausicäa, but I don’t know where it is. I know it’s in all the Japanese commercials included on the DVD, but that’s all… It has her name in it, anyway. Oh, and I like Kantori Rodo and the french song from Porco Rosso as well. I don’t like the song from Grave of the Fireflies. (that movie was incredibly sad, anyway) It’s supposed to be a period record, so it’s sung by someone in the style of the time and it’s a bit scratchy, the way it’s supposed to by. I just don’t like the style is.
Okay, enough. I played Star Wars Lego a lot today, including a lot of two-player with my brother. I need to find a more comfortable configuration of buttons to use.
I’ve also read a book and a half of Nausicäa to him. We got to the part where little Tepa goes up to save the Valley and sees the wind for the first time. This isn’t in the movie… the movie covered the first two books. I’m not going to bother reading Tsubasa to him. He says my voices are horrible, but I guess the anime is what makes him think that. The anime is quite good, if it comes to that. It follows the books pretty closely, although the manga says (or implies - I’m not sure which) that Fai is the king of Ceres!! O_O7 I didn’t know that. Two voice talents that I know in the Tsubasa anime are Syaoran, who was also Haku in Spirited Away, and Shougo, who’s done all the Adult Link voices for the Legend of Zelda series. I did find a site where I could, conceivably, buy the first series of Tsubasa Chronicle on DVD! 3-disk set, and the list it was in included such things as about twenty cloth posters and keychains (including Touya and Yukito keychains!) and suchlike. I’m not going to buy it, but I do know that it is possible to buy it. Someday… Itsuka… (one of my few Japanese words ^_^7)
I finished a story yesterday, based on Majora’s Mask. I tried to tighten this one up a bit, since my Ocarina story was too sprawling and boring. MM had barely any dungeon description, based on a Link’s Awakening manga I caught a glimpse of once, and I tried to make it a bit more of a spiritual journey. Who knows if I succeeded. I’ll put it up in a few months, perhaps. I think I should rewrite my Ocarina first.