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Mirkwood Families

Hano! Let's go! We'll see the girls later.

Hano! Let’s go! We’ll see the girls later.

Whoohoo! A picture of Middle Earth! Well, of people in Middle Earth. Right-y, in the back, we have King Thranduil of the Mirkwood Elves, and his un-named wife (see closeup here). At least I can’t remember her name and I’m really too exhausted to look it up right now. The next couple, further to the right, are Esgalwen’s parents… can’t remember if I gave them names, either, and I probably didn’t write them down. Probably I didn’t give them names, as she would call them father and mother. Right in front of them are the three sisters, with the youngest on the left, with a mischievous look on her cute face, and then the gentle eldest, and then Esgalwen the shy middle on the right. She hasn’t gotten her necklace yet, either. The eldest’s head is too big. Esgalwen actually looks pretty good in this picture.

mirkfamdetailIn front are Legolas and Hano. Hano is the elder brother of the girls, and an archer under Legolas, who is an archery captain. Doesn’t that make sense? Various details are off, like ears on everyone, Legolas’ right arm, etc. Still, I mostly like this picture.

Wood Elves

How to crash an elf party: a tutorial by Thorin Oakenshield

How to crash an elf party: a tutorial by Thorin Oakenshield

This is a picture of more of those Mirkwoodian elves, the tree elves, I suppose. I had trouble drawing in scale, so that’s why the ones in the back are bigger than the ones in front. At least the ones who are biggest are the most important.

Thranduil, King of Mirkwood, is the big guy on the left, and Legolas his son is on the right of him. There are random people all over, including a harpist, and a dark-haired, dark-eyed cutie hiding smiling behind a tree over on the far left. Esgalwen is the girl with dark shiny hair leaning against the log in front, chatting with someone… her sister? Oh, and that’s Thorin, hiding in plain view, so this is from The Hobbit. Who guessed before I said?

I shaded this one, because I figured it would be too hard to show that it was night time by the light of a ‘bonfire’ if it wasn’t. I shaded it, I remember, at all the parts of a Campbell River Friends of Music concert, I think it was, that it wasn’t impolite: before, intermission, and after. I was just finishing up, and that’s why I think I took it with me. I’m pleased with how it came out, although, even though I got Dad to spray it with protective stuff so it wouldn’t smudge, it still smudged. It’s smudged even worse now than this scan, since I did the scan at least two years ago. Blah. I can tell because you can’t see the harpist’s strings on the original, now, and there’s a lot of graphite on the back of the previous page, which is the beginning of a new sketchbook.