A sketch redraw of the “Finrod Felagund meets a man for the first time”. Actually I have it’s finished but I can’t show you the finished piece for some time. But you will see it anyways. Better later than never!
Fighting a mild form of art block with something quick and dirty, aka Findarato crossing the ice (He hasn’t got a hat or a hood, I hear you cry. You would be right, please suspend your disbelief for the sake of DRAMA and hair snapping in the wind.
The crossing is a theme that I find deeply interesting, and I hadn’t painted Finrod before, so here we go <:
my half of an art trade with @piyo-13, who requested regal / kingly finrod! i’m not sure if he looks as regal as i would’ve wanted, but at least he’s shiny?
The name Finrod is a Sindarin form of his Telerin (Quenya) name Findaráto, with the approximate meaning “Mighty descendant ofFinwë”. (More fully it was Findaráto Ingoldo, including the name given by his mother which was never translated.) Artafindë was the proper Noldorin Quenya version of Findaráto. Felagund was an epessë given to him by the Dwarves who expanded the caves of Nargothrond, and meant “Hewer of Caves”. It is not Sindarin, but rather Sindarized Khuzdul. Another name given to Finrod was Nóm(“Wisdom”). It was given to him by Bëor and his followers. His other titles include: King/Lord of Nargothrond, Friend-of-Men.
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