After finishing The Silmarillion in 2022, I'm finally getting to the first of all the many illustrations it inspired in me. Starting with Lay of Leithian character drawings.
As I said when I declared my intentions, I'm going for a children's-book look. People may not care for the childishness of the style, and I don't know whether Tolkien would approve, but that's how The Silmarillion inspired me. It was so much less magniloquent and more fairy tale than I was expecting, especially the original version of the Tale of Tinuviel, and that's something I particularly loved about it.
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