"They were clad in warm raiment and heavy cloaks, and over all the Lady Éowyn wore a great blue mantle of the colour of deep summer-night, and it was set with silver stars about the hem and the throat. Faramir had sent for this robe and had wrapped it about her; and he thought that she looked fair and queenly indeed a she stood there at his side. The mantle was wrought for his mother, Finduilas of Amroth, who died untimely, and was to him but a memory of loveliness in far days and of his first grief; and her robe seemed to him raiment fitting for the beauty and sadness of Éowyn.
But she now shivered beneath the starry mantle, and she looked northward, above the grey hither lands, into the eye of the cold wind where far away the sky was hard and clear..."
LOTR: ROTK, The Steward and the King ~ JRR Tolkien
-Watercolours
-Completed aged 15
Comments
AutumnFantasy Says:
Gods... I envy you... I tried to draw today and I am worse than ever.
Rynoah Says:
Arguably the best couple in the entire trilogy, and so downplayed in the movies. That's all right, though, because the way the book puts it is just so beautiful. Very nice work!
Minstrel Ayreon Says:
I LOVE the expression you put on Faramir's face...so gentle and powerful at the same time.
The only thing I'm not a fan of is "camera" angles that look up a person's nose. I dunno why, but that makes Eowyn look a little awkward to me, and also the way her neck juts out.
But WOW, the folds in the fabric...a skill I am still in the baby stages with! I'm impressed with how soft and "touchable" you made all of their clothes.